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The new race to save space relics, Phil Stooke quoted on MSNBC |
 Jul 26 2008, 02:58 AM
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Congratulations Phil. Thanks for helping the discussion to preserve historic moon sites.
Links to breaking news are problimatic, but her is the link as of the time of posting. -Floyd -------------------- |
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Jul 26 2008, 03:53 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Well spotted, Floyd, and very well done, Phil!!!
 (Still can't believe you guys let me hang out here...) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 26 2008, 04:46 AM
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(they can't get you off the couch, either)
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Jul 26 2008, 05:36 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Be careful what you wish for.
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Jul 26 2008, 06:49 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Well...if I have enough readily available beer I never will (hint, hint)...
 (Cease this frivolity at once, to paraphrase the esteemed Prof. Stooke on another thread!) It's great that the mainstream media is picking up on this issue via the conference, and it sure sounds like Phil hit a home run with his presentation. Might just have been enough to keep Tranquility Base pristine, which IMHO is priority #1; people were listening. You're my new hero, Phil!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 26 2008, 06:52 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Well done Phil, great coverage of this very important issue. About time people Out There started taking it more seriously.
Preserving Tranquility Base -------------------- |
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Jul 26 2008, 06:59 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Damn straight, Stu. It's identical to an effort to preserve the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, or any of the other significant artifacts of our collective human heritage...maybe more so, like the ancient footprints of one of the earliest ancestral hominids in volcanic ash near Olduvai Gorge. Phil is working for the future of us all, and doing one hell of a job.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 26 2008, 07:10 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I look at it this way, right? If Time Travel is ever possible (and PLEASE no Sheldon science lessons here*, I'm just playing, ok?
 ), people will pay huge amounts of money to travel back and witness events such as the first ape coming down from a tree to walk upright, Columbus' first steps on the beach of the 'New World', the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in America, etc etc... incredibly historic and destiny-shaping events... because all the traces of those events have been lost, swept away by the relentless tides of Time. Of equal importance to any of those events was the first manned landing on the Moon, when two men from Earth literally changed the course of history, and possibly of evolution itself, by walking on the surface of another world. The traces of that event - the actual footprints the two men made, the equipment they used, the flag they brought - are all STILL THERE, they haven't been swept away. Right now at Tranquility Base we have one of the most important sites in the history of mankind. What kind of idiot, and I don't use the word lightly, would seriously consider that it's ok to go and ruin the integrity of that site and deny future generations the chance to see it as it should be seen? I honestly can't get my head around it, I just can't.* Although, of course, Sheldon did himself travel in time...
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Jul 26 2008, 10:47 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Jul 26 2008, 09:10 AM)  I look at it this way, right? If Time Travel is ever possible... are all STILL THERE, And the event can still be watched "live" from a 39 light years distance... -------------------- |
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Jul 26 2008, 04:33 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jul 25 2008, 11:10 PM) If Time Travel is ever possible ...people will pay huge amounts of money to travel back and witness events .... Well I would want to go back to witness the first UMSF post
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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