Mission to Mars
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IMDB rating: 5.00 Plot: Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they find Lke surprisingly alive, and he has spent the time alone learning the secrets of the mysterious construct. The question now becomes: do they enter the dome and answer humanity’s oldest question, perhaps risking their lives in doing so, or return to Earth with what they do know and return in force with equipment and supplies? |
Actors: Sinise Gary,Robbins Tim,Cheadle Don,O’Connell Jerry,Outerbridge Peter,Smith Kavan,Bailey Jr. Robert,Ballard Jeffrey,Woods Anson,Varughese Sugith,Musgrave Story,Mina Mina E.,Rota Carlo,Chepovetsky Dmitry,Sinise McCanna Anthony,Adventure,Drama,Sci-Fi,Thriller,
Should Pres. Obama have cancelled our manned exploration of the moon?
Research and development for the 60s lunar missions created the tiny circuits and LEDs that gave us lots of advanced electronics, including computers. Is it smart to cancel a whole segment of the space program, instead of cutting back on other duplicated and wasteful government programs?
Stephen Hawkings has promoted manned exploration as uniquely human
http://www.spacenews.com/policy/100129-a ngst-greets-obama-space-plan.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13 748-stephen-hawking-calls-for-moon-and-m ars-colonies.html
Frankly, very few astronomers actually want to send humans back to the Moon. It’s a huge, huge waste of money with very little science involved – and now that NASA’s funding will be going to missions and people that do science with it, I’m happy about that. That’s where my funding comes from, after all.
eri | Jan 29, 2010
A new lunar mission was never started, so there is nothing to cancel. Oh, NASA wanted to go, and lots of people proposed going, but congress never appropriated the money. All new manned rocket development is targeted at servicing the space station only. So if the president said it was cut (I hadn’t heard he did, but he might have), it has no real meaning.
campbelp2002 | Jan 29, 2010
No. He’s lost my vote in 2012, and I’m a left-leaning democrat. A permanent human presence on the Moon would have been our springboard to Mars. And if you’re not interested in that, mining helium-3 would have provided a new souce of unlimited energy that would make nuclear power look like steam power. And if you don’t believe fusion reactors are in our immediate future, solar power stations at the lunar poles would have been able to beam microwave radiation to Earth, right through the clouds, and provide unlimited free energy. Turning NASA’s manned space flight to private industry? I’m all for private spaceflight, but they’ve been working on that anyway. And so far, despite lots of empty promises and glossy pictures in magazines, we’ve had TWO suborbital flights. And it will be a long, long time before private industry can reach the Moon. But China will be there in a few years. I hope Obama is watching when some Chinese Taikonaut takes down Neil Armstrong’s American flag and puts up the Chinese flag.As far back as 1997 I was seeing promises of such-and-such a spaceship offering orbital flights to passengers by 1999! Only government space organizations have so far been able to put people, or even unmanned objects, in orbit, and NASA is the only space agency in all history that has succeeded in sending humans to the Moon. On the other hand, we have the prototype CEV, we have flight tested the Ares 1, we are halfway there. To scrap all that and turn our space program over to vehicles that DON’T EXIST at a time when China is QUICKLY getting ahead is the hieght of stupidity and short-sightedness. An aggressive space program would have provided thousands of jobs, new technologies and infrastructure, medical advances, education, leadership in the world, inspiration for our kids to get into science and math, and a sense of patriotism and pride, something that has been missing for too long. Every aspect of our civilization, from cars to computers to population, EVERYTHING, is based on an exponential growth curve, and you don’t need to be a mathematical genius to see that that trend is not sustainable indefinitely. The human race is getting too big, the Earth is getting too small. Now we are a third-world country. China will colonize the Solar System while the United States sits on Earth with its pop stars and religion and astrology and new age medicine, flexing its military muscle and calling itself a superpower. Obama has destroyed our future. This is such a stupid and short sighted decision; if your budget comes up short one month, you don’t cancel your 401k.
Collin S | Feb 01, 2010
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