Comments on: Science Friday: Space Geysers, Space Hotels, Space Diamonds and Space Anomalies

By: Sean4000

Sean4000 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:35:29 +0000

#13 lol. I couldn’t help myself.

That would have made a better Psi2000 than what we got in TOS-R!

Mike Okuda please look at that pic!

By: Retro Spock

Retro Spock — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:16:44 +0000

That gravity lamp is fascinating. I want one on my desk.

By: [The] TOS Purist aka The Purolator

[The] TOS Purist aka The Purolator — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:56:41 +0000

Every few years or so, “they” put out articles about space tourism and space hotels. I’ve read articles back in th 90’s that were of the slant, “So-and-so company is planning on having space hotels in orbit by 2002.” And it never comes about…obviously!!

People just have no incentive for space anymore.

By: Kayla Iacovino

Kayla Iacovino — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:26:12 +0000

14 Some good reasoning there, but in this case, I believe that the object they are planning on crashing into the moon is small enough and at low enough velocity to cause a negligibly small effect on things like Earth-Moon interaction. The moon may be small relative to Earth, but it’s still a big place relative to a person, or moon-smashing object.

By: Dierna

Dierna — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:01:13 +0000

If I had $800,000 I wouldn’t even be in debt or a small apartment. I’d be traveling the world or something. I wanna see places on earth first before I even think about traveling to space.

And that anamaly. Sounds a bit like that DS9 ep with the Solar Sail. The tachyon eddies making their solar sail go faster than it should.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_%28DS9_episode%29

By: orion pirate

orion pirate — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:54:34 +0000

Hand-held calculators. $400 in 1972; $1 at your local grocery store in 2008. Space tourism will eventually be the same way. I’ll wait until then to check it out xD

By: Xai

Xai — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:23:19 +0000

the gravity lamp…I want one

By: (K)night

(K)night — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:39:22 +0000

Diamonds are not really scarce though.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond

I also love the idea that the center of Jupiter, per Arthur C. Clarke, might have a diamond the size of earth! Sweet! Can I call Dibs?

Is there a woman on the site worth an engagement ring like that?

http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2270.html

By: Denise de Arman

Denise de Arman — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:10:19 +0000

I wonder if NASA planning to crash objects into the moon to find water is a result of the discovery of the geysers on Enceladus. I wonder if that’s wise, considering the gravimetric and magnetic pressures the moon’s pull has on our own planet I’m sure that’s been taken into account by the best minds involved in the endeavor; however, with the little bit of knowledge we have concerning the moon’s core and sedimentary density, there have to be some unaccounted-for variables. Any thoughts, Kayla?

By: MCDoctor

MCDoctor — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:04:00 +0000

#7 – good comment Pink-skin!

That image is really impressive and worth every bit of memory to live on my hard-drive.