Posted on 05/09/2020 8:42:33 AM PDT by PROCON
Never did that, but when I was about 8, we had to use a bottle of Sprite in the radiator.
NASA is still working on some moon stuff. My son, an astronautical engineer interviewed for a job piloting a satellite that would be surveying the back of the moon as a landing site for an outpost.
He had two interviews the same day and took the other position.
I;ll contribute all I can
Just hand me a 6 pack ……...
Adobe huts on the moon? I think I’ll pass. At least the Indians used water and it didn’t stink.
Just tried. Missed by that much...
would the same thing apply to Uranus?
This building smells strange.
An outpost? I guess the astronomers want it.
There IS gold out in them thar planets...but it would take HUNDREDS of years just to GET there. With the pitiful fuels we have ... we'll just have to LOOK for now.
I seriously doubt it there is time travel or a "di-lithium" crystal that will take us anywhere very soon.
I may be wrong.
How about sh!t castles too? Will that work as well?
Star trek was based on “wave of the hand” technology. In others words, it would just be there when we needed it. Reality is not that simple and manned space travel, exploration, and especially colonization are far more difficult than the hand wavers in the 1950s thought it woul be.
At last an opening act for the concrete vibrator!
At my age I could build the Great Pyramid!
There is ‘gold‘ on the moon. Helium 3 (He-3) is a light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is abundant in the moon’s soil after being dumped there by solar winds. Two fully-loaded Space Shuttle cargo bay’s worth - about 40 tonnes worth - could power the United States for a year at the current rate of energy consumption - of fusion reactors become a real thing.
I can’t pee that far.
The problem is twofold:
1. FUEL. Always has been and there it no magic bullet. There is no "dilithium crystal" outside the scripts of Star Trek.
2. DISTANCE. Everything is just so darn far away. And if I remember some of my astronomy...things are getting FARTHER apart.
The nearest place to get to would take a ship some 300 years to arrive to...or something equally outlandish.
Well, the Romans did use urine and excrement for a number of things. And during Medieval times, they used animal dung to make wattle and daub to construct walls and buildings.
Send me up there with a thousand kegs of beer. I’ll have the moon paved in no time at all!
Yeah. I don’t use scoopable litter. It’s comes out like wet liter. I buy the cheapest stuff Walmart sells. I dump it Monday morning and Thursday evening the days before garbage pickup. I buy real thick Jonny Cat plastic bag liners from Amazon. No fuss no muss. Just dump it all. My cat was a feral kitten too.
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