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Originally posted by Frosty
Why did solar cells come from manned exploration?
What fuel cells?
Never heard that NASA had anything to do with LED's...
Water recycling has been around for years before NASA just like solar cells
I would need more than just your word, maybe some links...
Originally posted by sardion2000
Originally posted by Frosty
Why did solar cells come from manned exploration?
?? Why? Why do you think? It didn't "come" from NASA but NASA is conducting lots of research into making them high efficiency, they did commision the development of rollable Solar Panels, the same panels you see today on the ISS. Without NASA's support of Solar Panels that technology would most likely left behind in the 80s, along with everyone else who abandoned it.
What fuel cells?
Umm you do know that the Shuttle AND the Space Station uses fuel cells for backup power.
Never heard that NASA had anything to do with LED's...
Cannot find the link right now but NASA did have a plan to send up growlabs to the ISS with a new type of LED growlamp, again we're talking about taking an existing application and making it better (which will eventually lead to an eventual NASA spinoff)
Water recycling has been around for years before NASA just like solar cells
Yeah thats not my point. I know that lots of people expect NASA to invent lots of stuff but they also take existing applications and Improve them Yeah I knwo broken record but it is true.
I would need more than just your word, maybe some links...
That's fine, I'll dig up some links you can dig through yourself.
www.sti.nasa.gov...
www.thespaceplace.com...
These two links should be enough to validate my claims. Also there is the fact that the number of Tax Dollars spent on Space Exploration wether it's robotic or manned invariably adds more Tax revenue for the US gov't. Apallo for instance MADE the US gov't money if you take into account ALL the spinoff technologies they either help to pioneer or helped to make better through grants and testing it in extreme environments.
Originally posted by bodebliss
"Solar cells are used on satelittes but not on too many manned configurations. I don't see where any of this is leading to why we need to go back to the moon. "
I'll just repost my comments which you failed to see. The Moon is worth up to $25,000,000,000,000 / year to the future!
The world spends 2.5 trillion on it's energy needs now. In 25 years when a Moon energy program might be completed, the world will need 2.5 times as much energy as it uses today and the value of that energy might be $25 trillion/yr.
That is the draw. This planet is not a stagnant agrarian society. The world will need much more energy looking foreward. The Moon can provide.
Originally posted by bodebliss
If a plane crashes and you arrive at the site before authorities and start taking pieces away, you could face serious fines and go to jailfor ten years.
NTSB is the only agency that can investigate crashes.
Originally posted by sardion2000
PS. Also another biggy NASA Innovation(yes not just an improvement) that I forgot to mention is called Aerogel, the worlds best insulation, safe forms of the substance for use in homes are coming to market within the next few years. 2 Inches of the stuff is equal to a Hay bale house (R value in the mid 50s) I'm sure you can appreciate just how significant this substance could be for Housing efficiency.
[edit on 16-10-2005 by sardion2000]
Resistance
Telescopes don't have resolution?
Frosty
For a small fraction of the cost we could send robots to the moon for years to do what men could accomplish over several missions lasting only weeks....and then with the money left over send out more robots.
Originally posted by resistance
Remember Challenger? Remember Columbia? NASA testified in Congress and all kinds of stuff came out about how incompetent they are.
Take a look at this pic at the bottom of the page on this link. THEN come back and tell me how swift and capable they are.
www.geocities.com...
For God's sake, they are LOOKING FOR WATER ON THE MOON. They claim there's water there, and that they are going to use it to set up a moon village. Ha! The only ones who think there's water on the moon are NASA and the space junkies who think there's life "out there" and will believe anything NASA tells them. No serious scientist who knows anything about the moon would claim such nonsense. Do a Google search for moon, water, and see what you find. There is no atmosphere to trap any water there, and it is very, very hot. Any moisture there might be would vaporize and dissipate into space because there's not enough gravity to hold it to the moon.
Right now they're preparing another fake landing hoax. This time on Mars. They should be better at their hoaxing techniques this time than they were with Apollo. After all, they've had almost 40 years to perfect their legerdemain craft of smoke and mirrors, they and their distinguished gallery of astroNOTs on the web pictured so heroically holding their plastic model spaceships.
NASA has radio satellite dishes pointed out to space so they can make contact with the intelligent life they think is out there. So far nobody's dialed in.