A new language Moonglish should be invented for moonmen and
moomwomen to stop English's catastrophich effects on human cultures.

excerpt economist.com

Oxygen, though, is only the beginning, according to Paul Spudis, a
planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University who was a member of
the president's vision commission (yes, there really was one). As he
puts it, a cubic metre of regolith contains, besides the necessary
oxygen, enough hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, potassium and other trace
elements to make two cheese sandwiches on rye, two colas and two large
plums. Despite mythology to the contrary, though, the moon isn't
actually made of cheese. So extracting this bounty is another matter.
Whether the moon's natural resources can be used profitably remains,
says Dr Spudis with nice understatement, a “key question”.

Those resources consist of a lot of rock, a lot of sunlight that could
be used to generate electricity to process the rock and, at least in
the dreams of many lunar scientists, some 20 billion tonnes of frozen
water believed to lie at the bottoms of craters near the poles, where
it is sheltered from the evaporative effects of sunlight. In addition
to these goodies, the solar wind carries light elements such as helium
to the moon's surface and leaves them there. Some visionaries think
that this helium might find a market on Earth, though its main use
would be in fusion reactors that do not yet exist. And there are also
likely to be deposits of platinum and other valuable metals contained
in asteroids that have crashed into the moon.

The least certain item on this list is the water. Evidence, but not
proof, of its existence was found by two earlier missions. So the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that NASA plans to launch in 2008 will
search more thoroughly, and will also make detailed maps that should
help to find good spots to land. Dr Spudis, though, already has a
favourite. A crater at the south pole called Shackleton has a rim that
is bathed in sunlight for more than three-quarters of the time (as
opposed to half the time for most of the moon's surface). That makes
it easier to generate electricity. The bottom of the crater, by
contrast, is perpetually dark and, with luck, ice-bound.

It all sounds jolly ambitious. But establishing a human presence on
the moon itself is not, actually, Mr Bush's ultimate ambition. He
wants humans to explore the cosmos—or, at least, Mars. The moon is
merely a stepping-stone; a place to teach people about living on other
worlds. New survival technologies and syst

"habshi" wrote in message
...
A new language Moonglish should be invented for moonmen and
moomwomen to stop English's catastrophich effects on human cultures.

excerpt economist.com

You are very safe from any catastrophic effects of the English language,
aren't you?

Sounds like a lunatic idea!

:-)

SKS
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"habshi" wrote in message
...
A new language Moonglish should be invented for moonmen and
moomwomen to stop English's catastrophich effects on human cultures.

excerpt economist.com

Oxygen, though, is only the beginning, according to Paul Spudis, a
planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University who was a member of
the president's vision commission (yes, there really was one). As he
puts it, a cubic metre of regolith contains, besides the necessary
oxygen, enough hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, potassium and other trace
elements to make two cheese sandwiches on rye, two colas and two large
plums. Despite mythology to the contrary, though, the moon isn't
actually made of cheese. So extracting this bounty is another matter.
Whether the moon's natural resources can be used profitably remains,
says Dr Spudis with nice understatement, a “key question”.

Those resources consist of a lot of rock, a lot of sunlight that could
be used to generate electricity to process the rock and, at least in
the dreams of many lunar scientists, some 20 billion tonnes of frozen
water believed to lie at the bottoms of craters near the poles, where
it is sheltered from the evaporative effects of sunlight. In addition
to these goodies, the solar wind carries light elements such as helium
to the moon's surface and leaves them there. Some visionaries think
that this helium might find a market on Earth, though its main use
would be in fusion reactors that do not yet exist. And there are also
likely to be deposits of platinum and other valuable metals contained
in asteroids that have crashed into the moon.

The least certain item on this list is the water. Evidence, but not
proof, of its existence was found by two earlier missions. So the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that NASA plans to launch in 2008 will
search more thoroughly, and will also make detailed maps that should
help to find good spots to land. Dr Spudis, though, already has a
favourite. A crater at the south pole called Shackleton has a rim that
is bathed in sunlight for more than three-quarters of the time (as
opposed to half the time for most of the moon's surface). That makes
it easier to generate electricity. The bottom of the crater, by
contrast, is perpetually dark and, with luck, ice-bound.

It all sounds jolly ambitious. But establishing a human presence on
the moon itself is not, actually, Mr Bush's ultimate ambition. He
wants humans to explore the cosmos—or, at least, Mars. The moon is
merely a stepping-stone; a place to teach people about living on other
worlds. New survival technologies and syst

"SKS" wrote in message
nk.net...
Sounds like a lunatic idea!

Oh I don't know...how many of them were planning on going?

In sci.physics habshi wrote:
Babble.

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CWaters China has lots of good reasons to be the first to build a base
on the moon. China has 250,000 people in its space program. It can save
money by copying the Saturn V China is coming out of her cacoon,and
flying to the moon. Bert

SKS wrote:
Sounds like a lunatic idea!

:-)

SKS
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nice :-)

habshi wrote:

A new language Moonglish should be invented for moonmen and
moomwomen to stop English's catastrophich effects on human cultures.
[snip crap]

Hey idiot wog, who has all the flush toilets? Your own crappy
(lierally) country was a disaster before the British arrived with
novel concepts like civil law, civil administration, public order,
medicine, public education, one working language, paved roads, safe
drinking water, public health... and slit latrines. It's good to see
that East Indians thoroughly and successfully resisted all of it. Go
home and burn some widows.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf

India was the richest country in the world and called the
'golden bird' under the Gupta Hindu Kings around 300 AD.
Muslims , Britis all arrived . Even Columbus was seeking a
route to India and misnamed native Americans as 'indians'.
Harappa is the oldest civilization in the world , even older
than the pyramids and had sanitation and toliets .
By 1700 Hindus too had aquired guns and recaptured most of
India , but the Brits after the industrial revolution arrived and
defeated them .
Now India is a space power and will send rockets to the moon
in 2 years .

In sci.physics habshi wrote:
India was the richest country in the world and called the
'golden bird' under the Gupta Hindu Kings around 300 AD.

Now it's called the Stinking Cesspool.

Muslims , Britis all arrived . Even Columbus was seeking a
route to India and misnamed native Americans as 'indians'.

What happened in the 1200 years before any outsiders arrived that
caused the 'golden bird' to become the Stinking Cesspool?

Harappa is the oldest civilization in the world , even older
than the pyramids and had sanitation and toliets .

Why has everyone forgotten how to make them?

By 1700 Hindus too had aquired guns and recaptured most of
India , but the Brits after the industrial revolution arrived and
defeated them .
Now India is a space power and will send rockets to the moon
in 2 years .

Probably mostly to escape the stink.

--
Jim Pennino

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