Back to the Moon?

[Gobalopper]

Milky Way Days

Looks like there might be plans to return to the moon and maybe even go to Mars.

[Scrinlord]

Sounds good to me!

[Andrew]

Can't wait to see someone on the moon and eventually mars. The sad thing is they would probably send a monkey first..[to mars]

But maybe they should put PEI on the map first...but then N.S. can't even put us on their tourist brochures. :P

[Dunenewt]

NS??

Noveau Scotia?

[Andrew]

I think your right, although we call it Nova Scotia. (you got nova french I think.)

Does Mars have a moon?

[Scrinlord]

Yes, mars has two moons, phobos and deimos, I think they are called.

[Wolf]

I like the talk of establishing a permanent prescence on the moon. I wonder how that would be accomplished, and what lunar denizens would actually do.

[Caid Ivik]

Well, nothing new, China set deadline for her first flight to 2020 ;D

[Gobalopper]

Bush mulls major new space effort more information, from UPI this time.

[scotsman]

Colonise the moon. Reality catches up with science fiction. Anyone remember Space 1999 with Moon Base Alpha and Commander Konig?

[Edric O]

About damn time!

Humanity on Earth is like a colony of bacteria in a closed bottle. We may have a lot of problems that we need to solve inside this bottle, but finding a way to actually open the bottle should always be one of our top priorities.

[nemafakei]

We can't open the bottle untill we're all pushing in the same direction.

[SpiceGuid]

Yes, mars has two moons, phobos and deimos, I think they are called.

I am not sure but i have read somewhere Phobos is the biggest and yet is only 27km large, so i don't know if those things can be qualified as moons.

[Dunenewt]

They're just asteroids which have been captured by Mars' gravity but they are still moons.

[nemafakei]

Does the definition 'natural satellite' help you visualise it? The Earth has one, but many man-made satellite.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

the moons of mars are not the same shape as other moons. so I think that they are asteroids too

[nemafakei]

So what shape is our moon, compared to theirs, then? Ours certainly isn't spherical - it's egg-shaped - admittedly not drastically so, but egg-shaped nevertheless.

And anyway, why does the shape matter?

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I have never said that shape matters about anything, but I think that the moons have more of the shape of a normal rock. dunno how to explain in english, but it is not like a circle, or eliptical or round or whatever.

[Edric O]

It's not the shape that matters, it's the size. Phobos and Deimos (the moons of Mars) are tiny. And as far as we can tell, their chemical composition is identical to that of your average inner-solar-system asteroid.

[Dude_Doc]

Earth is egg-shaped as well.