Communists on the moon !

[Cyrien]

I took his post as being comical in nature in reference to my not wanting to go along with the suggestion of destroying the moon and Mars.

Thus the nice at the end.

[ December 12, 2003, 20:49: Message edited by: Cyrien ]

[Roanon]

Ah ok, might be I misunderstood, sorry then - I thought he was again attacking me after I already said I wanted to stop this.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Originally posted by Roanon:
Ah ok, might be I misunderstood, sorry then - I thought he was again attacking me after I already said I wanted to stop this.

The comment was directed to Cyrien, not you Roanon and it was meant as a joke. After all we are talking about boosting our only moon into Mars or into bits and pieces. As I said right before that post lets stop this pointless debate, let’s all agree to disagree, thanks for the private message though.

FYI it was not I that posted it was a war for freedom [Loser I think], I asked to show a little respect and not refer to oil/money and the cost of lives, in this the Last few weeks I have to spend with a wife of over a decade and three kids before she leaves for the Iraq theater for a year.

[ December 13, 2003, 04:12: Message edited by: President Elect Shang ]

[President_Elect_Shang]

Ok so you want to be negative about it, is this idea better? We blow the moon into Mars (two birds one stone) then tow Europa into orbit to replace our missing moon and we can declare it a game reserve and charge ten bucks a head to go ice fishing, which will recoup the money spent to bLast it in the first place. Better? Of course that does not make up for the bLasted Mars, but no one is perfect.

[ December 13, 2003, 04:29: Message edited by: President Elect Shang ]

[Cyrien]

That doesn't work either.

Europa
Mass: 4.8 x 10^22 kg
Radius: 1560 km

Moon
Mass: 7.349 x 10^22 kg
Radius: 1738 km

As you can see the gravity pull is inadequate. I don't think we really want to move it in much closer either...

[Cipher7071]

Anyone who is seriously interested in the moon topic might want to have a look at the December 2003 issue of Scientific American, specifically "The New Moon," by Jerome M. Siegel. A taste of it can currently be found at Scientific American. The article discusses reasons for further lunar exploration. A memorable statement made by the author is "The return of astronauts to the moon requires a political rationale, not a scientific justification." This may suggest why the Chinese want to go the moon. Not only is there much left to discover, they may also simply want to show the rest of the world that they can do it.

[President_Elect_Shang]

I thought you would say that, so I devised part two. First off to keep the core warm (we are missing the effects of Jupiter’s gravity) we will go to the desert and pay this guy a lot of money to build a machine that will drill down to the center of Europa. Once there we will use the new “Bend Reality Bomb” (BRB) to keep the center molten and turning. Next we will designate half for the game reserve and the other half for a trash dump. In just a matter of years with all our garbage sent up there we will be able to make up for the mass difference. Don’t forget though for our ship we will need a carefully selected crew of which only two (one man one woman) will be allowed to return. Should more return we will draw lots and shot the losers.