On a sillier note, when I was much younger I used to think a big golden arches painted on the moon would be a great marketing idea for McDonald’s. I guess it’s not seeming so silly anymore, though I’d hate it.

I’ve got more practical and better ideas. . . .actually it has a lot to do with removing space debris. . . or that could be one function of my idea.

On May 11th, 2009 at 5:46 pm, Ragspierre said:

Strange how time affects our thinking.

After Challenger, I still experience a little anxiety when I hear:
“Go at throttle up”.

I remember watching the Columbia disaster, and I remember wondering if this was the act of one of our enemies.

9/11 was a not-distant memory then…

Strange how time affects our thinking.

the Hubble’s orbit is more crowded with space junk than that of the international space station, which orbits at a lower altitude, NASA said.

Has anyone ever heard of a hit on the Hubble during it’s many years in orbit?

Love this stuff – my first professional job, at age 22, was as a scientific programmer on the Surveyor project. We had a champagne party on the first of 5 successful landings out of seven launches. Second job was on Project Corona – classified until 1995.

Best pun on TV ever: Richard Benjamin was the captain of a garbage collection spaceship. His science officer (a la Spock), was 1/2 human, 1/2 plant (a vegeton), was named (are you ready?) – ‘Ficus’. And real twin sisters played clones.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066/

And for those who still don’t get the joke, go here.

But if we aren’t working on it on our Continental Shelf, I can’t see getting it from Titan.

We KNOW how to do that, the technology and equipment already exists and is in use elsewhere. We could have first oil by the time we kicked his sorry butt out of the white house, but Obama just won’t let us. Stupid freaking Demoncrap. makes me so mad I could puke.

For space debris: Waste Managment

Tires: Goodyear or Firestone (whoever makes the tires)

Toilet facilities: Roto-Rooter

Paint: DuPont

Cereal: Wheaties

Repair insurance (extended warranty): Fidelus

Phone service: Boost

Military: US Space Command

Just some ideas. Man, I can see some fancy paint jobs now with the major sponsor the biggest with lesser sponsors listed in front of the door just like on the cars.

ECS

There is enough wealth to be had out there that you could literally crash the markets if you brought it all onto the market at once. So you can bet that if it were legal for someone to go get one of these rocks and mine it, they would figure out a way to do it because the payoff would be so high. But since it is all off limits, the only private participation you’ll get is as a subcontractor to the government.

You’re assuming that these companies will escape the great Soros/Xerxes/SEIU takeover of the private sector.

How many privately owned companies will “the One” allow to remain untouched after his grand social experiment destroys our great Republic?

It is more likely we will see Xerxes’ image plastered on the side of the next space mission and billboards just like the other tyrants of the world do!

On May 11th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, Flyoverman said:
If the original Star Trek taught us anything, it was never wear a red shirt. You were only in danger if you wore a red shirt.

Bones: (as he turns away from another red shirted body) “He’s dead, Jim!”

If the original Star Trek taught us anything, it was never wear a red shirt. You were only in danger if you wore a red shirt.

Flyoverman, that is a typically Navy thing. Google “red shirts on aircraft carriers”, you’ll find they had the most dangerous assignments on deck. Armaments, if memory serves me. (hat tip: the U.S.S. Lexington tour in Corpus Christi, TX).

And I agree, I’m ready to see the private sector enter into the exploration of space.

Behiker, I couldn’t agree more! The private sector is where ideas come from, not government! The shuttles are ancient technology, and NASA being gubmint will not be where creative new ideas come from! Government efficiency is the classic oxymoron!