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No need to, but thank you for the vote of confidence. Here's a nice video on the topic, with some footage of NASA impact research:
Crater? No. Sub...
Ed Beach wrote several great books.Crater? No. Sub...
USS Tang (SS-306) - Wikipedia
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I think I remember reading about that boat in an Ed Beach story.
It's not about living in space if the Earth is wiped out. That would take FTL or multi-generation ships to another star, assuming there are Earth-like planets out there somewhere. Rather, it's about detecting and doing something about a great big incoming rock that could destroy civilization. The dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program.
How would they have saved themselves if they'd had a space program?
They probably could make their own vitamin C. Most animals can, the ones that can't are the exception.
Clearly I'm stronger in comedy than biology.
I think you have misunderstood my position. I'm strongly in favor of a space program at higher funding levels that currently exist. I'm mostly against manned spaceflight because it is an extremely inefficient use of funds. We aren't going to send a person out to intercept an astroid (with apologies to Bruce Willis). Give me ten times more robotic missions to explore the solar system, deep space asteroid monitors and interceptor missions and I'm very happy.
In four years when the movie based on this concept comes out, I'm blaming you.
<head shake> Sad and misanthropic. You have my pity.
Hollywood taught us you’d only need the females. Life finds a way.
I think you're making his case for him.
Somewhere I read a serious discussion about off planet births and citizenship. I don’t know maritime law: if someone is born at sea or on an aircraft, in international waters or airspace, are they a citizen of the flag on the vessel?
That's my understanding of it.
It depends on the law of the country you want to be a citizen of. There no such general rule.
Or more likely to be immediately killed by whatever it was that caused the communication from Earth to stop in the first place…
No, these are Moonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonie
One of my sisters was a Moonie for a while back in the 70s. Basically took a rescue mission to get her out of there.
IIRC, Beach was the skipper of USS Triton, the atomic-powered submarine that made the first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth (in the conventional sense, not the hard-a-port at the pole kind). Only surfaced once, to medevac a sick sailor. "Around the World Submerged" was the title of that book, I think....
Maybe I could have phrased it better. I said I wasn't sure, not that I was certain. There's an emotional implication there that I don't think fits. I believe the great majority of people have genuinely good intentions. But as a group, we're kind of a mess and always have been. If we were cattle, I'd describe it as moving close to being on a feed lot vs happy cows grazing in a field.
As were two of my daughter's good friends. They were one of the bunch that got married by Rev. Moon himself in Shea Stadium in a mass ceremony with thousands of others, never having met their husband/wife to be. They've since left the cult, and surprisingly the marriage worked and lasted to this day. Nice people, if a bit bizarre. Their parents are still Moonies.
Thankfully I had forgotten all about those ?????? people.
My sister was with them for a few months (I don't remember how long, really, but it wasn't years). She eventually had to break and run away from a group and make a collect call to my parents to get help escaping. It seemed very close to slavery - they were out there every day, panhandling for money (all of which went to their handlers) and kept under close watch to make sure no one attempted any extra contact or tried to call family or friends. They had absolutely nothing, so even making a phone call was difficult.
I guess that's a poor choice of words.... I don't mean that from an engineering sense. It's more about the commentary. As I understand it, those folks narrating the launch are technically competent and very knowledgeable engineers...as are no doubt all the folks working launch flight control etc....it's just that they're young and its all just so laid back and casual compared to what I've seen the old Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo . There was a certain seriousness and discipline communicated in it back then...
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