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biddie67 wrote:I have wondered just how delicately balanced and stable the moon is in its orbit around the Earth.

If we did make a permanent colony up there with a massive influx of heavy equipment for living quarters, life support and then add the weight for mining, processing equipment and large storage/transport bases with minerals being shipped back to Earth, could there be a possibility of causing problems with changing the center of mass and shifting the moon's orbit?

biddie67 wrote:I have wondered just how delicately balanced and stable the moon is in its orbit around the Earth.

If we did make a permanent colony up there with a massive influx of heavy equipment for living quarters, life support and then add the weight for mining, processing equipment and large storage/transport bases with minerals being shipped back to Earth, could there be a possibility of causing problems with changing the center of mass and shifting the moon's orbit?

Chris Peterson wrote:

luigi wrote:
The moon is made of cheese so it must be a blue state as there is a blue cheese but not a red one.

Ha! You've never done much cheese making, have you?
You can easily get a red cheese when things go wrong.
Blue cheese you eat; red cheese goes in the biohazard bin.

MMMMMmmmmm...puttin' on a Ritz

neufer wrote:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-promises-moon-base-could-become-51s wrote:
Gingrich Promises Moon Base That Could Become 51st State
January 25, 2012 06:05 PMhttp://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26845&hilit=russia+lunar

neufer wrote:It would be a green cheese state.

luigi wrote:The moon is made of cheese so it must be a blue state as there is a blue cheese but not a red one.

Chris Peterson wrote:

neufer wrote:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-promises-moon-base-could-become-51s wrote:
Gingrich Promises Moon Base That Could Become 51st State

The question is, would it be a red state or a blue state?

• It would be a green cheese state.

Chris Peterson wrote:

neufer wrote:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-promises-moon-base-could-become-51s wrote:
Gingrich Promises Moon Base That Could Become 51st State

The question is, would it be a red state or a blue state? I guess it depends on whether they end up staffing it with a bunch of military and ex-military people, or with scientists.

Gingrich Promises Moon Base That Could Become 51st State

neufer wrote:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-promises-moon-base-could-become-51s wrote:
Gingrich Promises Moon Base That Could Become 51st State

• ~ Jules Verne ~ (From the Earth to the Moon (1865))

noriyosan73 wrote:
This may be an easy question for many, but is the animation the same as viewed from Australia?

Wolf kotenberg wrote: If you were stationed on the moon, would the Earth appear tp wobble ?

• Yes:
  
  1) The variation in apparent size over a lunation would be identical.
  
  2) The Earth's libration in longitude would also be identical; however, it would generally be lost in the constant daily movement of 28.5 full earth rotations every 29.5 days. [If an image of the Earth from the Moon were taken regularly every 24.84 hours (= 24*29.5/28.5) then this problem could be compensated for.]
  
  3) The Earth's libration in latitude would be 3 to 4 times larger due to the large (between 18.29° and 28.58°) inclination between the Earth's axis of rotation and the normal to the plane of the Moon's orbit.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-promises-moon-base-could-become-51s wrote:
Gingrich Promises Moon Base That Could Become 51st State
January 25, 2012 06:05 PM

<<Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday vowed to build a lunar colony that he said could eventually become the 51st state. Speaking to Republicans on Florida's Space Coast, the former House Speaker explained that the "grandiose" idea would be possible because the government would fuel innovation by awarding prizes and incentives to private businesses.

"At one point early in my career, I introduced the Northwest Ordinance for Space," Gingrich recalled, referring to it as the "weirdest thing" he'd ever done. "I said when we got -- I think the number is 13,000 -- when we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state."

"By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American," the candidate insisted. "We will have commercial near-Earth activities that included science, tourism and manufacturing."

"I accept the charge that I am an American and Americans are instinctively grandiose because we believe in a bigger future!" he exclaimed. "I want you to help me both in Florida and across the country so that you can someday say you were here the day it was announce that of course we'd have commercial space and near space. Of course we'd have a man colony on the moon that flew an American flag."

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/hea ... -colony-pr

Gingrich later joked to reporters about his chances with voters stationed at the lunar colony. "I think the moon primary would come late in the season," he said.>>