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Originally posted by Dr Expired
Originally posted by Benchkey
reply to post by Dr Expired
There is no dark side to the moon. The far side receives as much light as the side we see.
Everything is relative, so for accuracy sake , there is no permanent far side of the moon, just as there is no permanent dark side of the Moon.
The term dark I believe refers to the fact that one side of the moon is never seen by those on Earth.
Originally posted by SavedOne
Originally posted by Dr Expired
Recently man made bio-spheres have made the news, they may be also used on the Moon.
There has never been a successful sealed biosphere on earth although it's been tried more than once. They've all ended in one failure or another that ended in a required evacuation. It's simply not possible that there could be one on the moon, we haven't perfected the technology enough to create a remote biosphere.
Originally posted by darius2025
Originally posted by Dr Expired
Originally posted by Benchkey
reply to post by Dr Expired
There is no dark side to the moon. The far side receives as much light as the side we see.
Everything is relative, so for accuracy sake , there is no permanent far side of the moon, just as there is no permanent dark side of the Moon.
The term dark I believe refers to the fact that one side of the moon is never seen by those on Earth.
Since when does the moon rotate? There IS a 'permanent' far side. Muppet.
Originally posted by happykat39
reply to post by Dr Expired
OK folks...
1 - There is a permanent far side of the moon when viewed from the earth.
2 - That is because the moon does rotate on its axis but does so just once for each trip around the earth so the same side always faces us.
3 - And finally; there actually is a "Dark Side of the Moon". It is an album by Pink Floyd. - LOL
OK folks...
1 - There is a permanent far side of the moon when viewed from the earth.
2 - That is because the moon does rotate on its axis but does so just once for each trip around the earth so the same side always faces us.
3 - And finally; there actually is a "Dark Side of the Moon". It is an album by Pink Floyd. - LOL
Dr. Joseph Resnick, Dr. Timothy R. O'Neill and Guy Cramer (ROC-Resnick/O'Neill/Cramer team) who have acquired the mineral rights for 95% of the side of the moon that faces Earth, the polar regions and 50% of the far side of the moon.
Originally posted by defcon5
So how did we get thousands of people and tons of equipment to the moon with no one catching the thousands of rocket launches required to get it up there? Rocket launches are observable for hundreds of miles in all directions, and are tracked by various other governments (china, Russia, etc).
Originally posted by mast3rshake2049
Hello ATS, iv been reading these forums for a while now but have never posted, however the lack of understanding in this thread has prompted me to finally post here.
1: Earthling: an earthling is basically any creature (animal, insect, plant) that originated from earth. so currently all forms of life known to man are earthlings. This will also never change, even a human living on mars is still an earthling because our species evolved on earth. only a creature that originated on mars would be considered a Martian. (same concept applies to the moon, a moonling can only be a creature that naturally evolved on the moon (unlikely))
2: Dark side of the moon: The moon is tidally locked to earth. In other words the moon does rotate just as every other object in space does. However being tidally locked means that the moon also orbits around the earth at the same rate that it spins on its axis, thus the same side of the moon is always facing earth. the Dark side of the moon simple refers to the side of the moon we can never see from earth. The moon has days and nights just like earth (albeit days measured in weeks rather then hours)
3: Secret base on the moon: simply put, no way. not with our current level of technology. sure the moon is a vast heaven of raw materials. but these materials must be accessed first (which requires large mining equipment) and then these materials must be refined in order to be usable. so before we can use the moons resources we have to have a self sustaining base as well as all the facilities required to properly access and machine the raw materials before we can continue to expand a base there with out having to be resupplied by earth. A monumental undertaking beyond our current capabilities. Why?
First as i said we have to get there. just look at how long it has taken them to build the ISS (international Space Station) and it is still incomplete. a self sustaining base on the moon would have to be even larger yet then the ISS. And also think it is ten times easier to build something in orbit around earth then to build something on the moon which is ten times farther then earth orbit. (remember we have to build the base first with earthly resources before the base could be supported entirely by the moon itself) If we can build a moon base, then building a space station would be insignificant in comparison.
Then we also have the radiation problem. Even in earth orbit we are still within earths magnetic field (which keeps the sun from killing us) once you leave earth orbit you need a lead wall several feet thick in order to protect you (never mind the "thin" hulls of our current space faring vehicles) or an extremely powerful magnetic shield. (artificially taking earths protective shield with you) we do not currently posses the technology to create a magnetic field powerful enough to shield us from the sun and be able to implement this tech into a space ship (shuttle, craft, what ever you wish) (this to me is also a good point as to why we never went to the moon in the first place, the astronauts came back alive and in perfect health, but thats another story)
4: The government has secret alien technology!: Naturally this one is a matter of opinion. however just for the sake of argument lats say its true. This means aliens are here and have been for centuries. This would also mean most of what we have heard about aliens is true as well. So the aliens would already be on the moon. (in order to observe humanity (also as a side note IF they are observing us it is purely out of curiosity and science, if they wanted our planet they would have taken it centuries ago))
It is highly unlikely they would allow man on the moon with technology that was stolen/taken from them. (UFO shoot down/crash landed and reversed engineered) If they did want us to have their technology they would have revealed them selves to the world so that all would know. Not secretly give it to a handful of individuals who have no intention of using it for the betterment of mankind.
So to sum up, the idea of us having a moon base while intriguing and fascinating in concept, is extremely Unlikely if not impossible (sorry for using the I word) in our current state of affairs, no matter how you look at it.