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Originally posted by Eurisko2012
What else could we have spent that $79 million on?
How about just $50 million landing a cool looking large rover
that can drill for water!
Put a 12 inch Meade telescope on it so it can send back images like the
Hubble Telescope.
Oh! Have it look for Helium 3 while it's there!
Originally posted by wx4caster
yeah, phenom of a fail. unfortunately i believe that we could have obtained a larger pool of data over a more sustainable amount of time by simply sending up a sattelite and droping 30 dollar bowling balls lmao
in all seriousness though, i hope the info they got was worth the money. thats enough dough to pay off upwards of a thousand home mortgages
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
reply to post by ngchunter
Why is bandwidth a problem?
Direct TV works pretty well.
The satellite is 23,000 miles away from Earth.
The moon is only 238,000 miles away.
Maybe we could use a new and improved Direct TV satellite
to act as a relay station.
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
The images from my 12 inch Meade telescope would be crystal
clear. - No atmosphere on the moon - No distortion
I think i could build a rover that would work great for $2 Million.