Re: The Cold Equations

>NASA may plan on taking 12 years to return to the Moon, but Russia and
>China will probably be there in 4 or 5 years. The U.S. is heading for
>quite an . . . embarrassment. I wouldn't want to be in the NASA
>program when that happens! The American public will 'clean house'.
There you go again, by way of suggesting that we've ever been to the
surface of our moon in the first place, whereas you're suggesting that
we keep on perpetrating cold-wars and thus creating 911's if not
WW-III, and having to accept all sorts of things that simply are not
true.

Going to the surface of the moon isn't worth 0.0001% of whomever
manages to first establish the LL1/ME-L1 sweet-spot on behalf of their
creating and sustaining the one and only LSE-CM/ISS. Obviously you
haven't gotten this punch-line because your dumbfounded head remains
firmly stuck way too deep into whatever's the nearest space-toilet that
supports your pagan NASA. That's a good million to one greater worth in
establishing the LSE-CM/ISS than for all the worth of folks walking on
the moon.

With regard to our moving forward, and to things getting smaller
becoming better. Here's my recent reply to what was offered by
"tinplated", as a good faith gesture on his part of merely taking my
word that we'd been summarily snookered by those having "the right
stuff" from the very get-go. After all folks, our perpetrated cold-war
with the USSR was 90% smoke and mirrors all along.
>tinplated; - Ok. You've convinced me. Now...
>What next?
>Is there any, _ANY_ plan for the next step? Do you intend to *do*
>anything other than posting angry screed to Usenet? So you have the
>truth, as you say in your signature. What do you want to do with this
>truth that you have?
>Now what?
The "next step" is for others to stop wasting time, talents and
resources on pretending that we've been there and done that moon
walking thing. Getting ourselves past all of that pretentious cold-war
gauntlet should allow folks to focus upon delivering a slew of smaller
satellites, and the likes of getting those LUNAR-A impact probes
deployed.

Of course, this would also represent that whenever ideas as to
alternative methods of accomplishing our moon or whatever else becomes
posted, that as such they're given the royal treatment of positive
respect as shared along with all the think-tank talent and expertise
instead of being summarily bashed because they're a little outside the
NASA/Apollo box.

For example; - Deploying a serious batch of microsatellites should soon
become the relatively cheap and fast-track deployment alternative to
the otherwise typically big and complex multi-tonne sorts of satellites
that could never get safely onto the lunar deck, whereas getting
smaller is potentially what's capable of affording these much lower
density items into surviving after their orbit decay which leaves us
with but one final alternative, of our actually getting a few of these
interactive instruments deployed into if not situated upon the dark and
nasty surface of such a moon-dust covered terrain.

I'm thinking along the lines of creating 100 units of a 618 mm thick
and 2 meter diameter saucer shaped microsatellite of perhaps an
elliptosphere or that of an elliptoid flying saucer, as per each having
a cubic meter in volume, of their shape based upon a ratio of 2 Phi
(3.236068:1), thus lots of interior space for the sorts of tough basalt
micro balloon packing and composite reinforcements that shouldn't
hardly weigh anything. Perhaps as little as 309 mm by one meter
diameter might get interesting.

There are countless expansive lunar terrain areas and even of
sufficiently large diameter craters hosting miles upon miles of their
relatively smooth moon-dust filled ponds that'll make for a little
interesting micro-lithobreaking form of a final moon-dust landing. I'll
suggest a 10 kg satellite that's taking up a cubic meter by volume just
might represent a surface tension compression factor of less than 0.325
g/cm2, thus actually end up floating itself on top of that nasty
moon-dust. I can think of all sorts of drag inducing methods of getting
such low density items down to a reasonable final landing velocity
that's sufficient as to surviving their arrivals upon such a low
surface-tension capable substance. These days, of satellites that could
become their own surface probes need not be large and bulky items,
whereas 10 kg is actually affording quite a bit of a viable satellite
package that's capable of obtaining a good deal of science and even
multiple camera instruments within.

Until we have achieved a proven set of fly-by-rocket landers (robotic
as well as manned) under our moonsuit belts, whereas even the notions
of an earthshine illuminated landing site is going to remain testy if
not physically taboo. Therefore, the only manned applications I foresee
are those related to our accomplishing a little preliminary
station-keeping and thus all around ***-saving mission critical
location claiming at LL1/ME-L1 (that's supposedly a sweet-spot 60,000
km above the lunar deck, as per that zone remaining gravity-well
aligned as keeping relatively in dead-center alignment with Earth, +/-
a certain amount of the interactive gravity-well halo/parallel parking
factor).

So, I believe there's a lot to do and a great deal at stake for
whomever gets to hold onto this one and only LL1/ME-L1 worthy zone,
especially since there can be only one such LSE-CM/ISS. If that's not
good enough, in which case I have lots of other affordable and
obtainable plans of action that are absolute win-win opportunities for
our futures.
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Brad Guth

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