"Look at that, you son of a bitch"

[tk2kewl]

[Bigmack]

1. K & R nt

[Glassunion]

2. At current rates, it would cost us about 53.5 Trillion dollars

to send each member of congress to the moon for their scruff of the neck berating.

Or about 27.7 Trillion if we just sent the Republicans.

We can pick up a few of these for about $30

[Prospero1]

10. How much would it cost

to send them to the moon and just leave them there?

[Glassunion]

11. Depends...

How much does one of these cost?

[jmowreader]

22. Be a hell of a lot cheaper just to shoot them into low earth orbit...

and let them burn up upon reentry.

And probably more effective.

[cheapdate]

33. "The holes are for air flow and a faster swing" (as every stupid coach explains again and again.)

[MADem]

3. That would be one helluva CODEL. Ted Cruz couldn't walk out in a huff, though! nt

[Arkana]

13. He could, but he'd have a tough time getting home.

[loudsue]

17. I'd pay extra to see him take a space walk

and not come home.

[freshwest]

4. The Moon has no air, water, food or shelter. We don't respect being alive, not just politicans who

act our foolishness.

The best place in this solar system, and we act as if we are in a hurry to be kill everything.

Maybe we are already dead.

[Neoma]

6. To aliens, we're not even alive yet.

[defacto7]

31. I hear you.....

[seveneyes]

5. Not what I'd be thinking at that vantage

I'd be pondering the reliability of the equipment and people involved in the orbital mechanics and reentry stages mostly.

[FarCenter]

7. Ed Mitchel never quite made it back down to earth.

[riqster]

9. He got this right. nt

[Brother Buzz]

14. Edgar Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences

Are you implying the institute and Mitchell's quest isn't quite grounded in reality?

http://noetic.org/directory/person/edgar-mitchell/

[MisterP]

8. noesis in a JPEG

[cer7711]

12. Everything Is A Matter Of Perspective

Love this thread! Thank you for starting it.

[mbperrin]

15. This is going on my wall in the classroom.

This to me is the most logical explanation of why the United States has committed technological suicide by killing our space program - the powers that be are afraid that this kind of thinking might catch on.

[niyad]

16. there is a lovely book that includes comments from a number of astronauts about their change

of consciousness after their travels (unfortunately, cannot remember the name)

[LongTomH]

19. The book is titled......

.......The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution. The first publication attracted a great deal of interest among pro-space groups in the 1980s.

[niyad]

20. thank you so much--could see the book and stories, just not the title.

[obxhead]

18. Or daughter

Look at the big picture. It matters.

[GETPLANING]

21. They say that astronauts return to the Earth changed people

Most become environmentalists, some become very religious, but none return more conservative than they were when they lifted off.

[derby378]

23. NICE. (n/t)

[Gabi Hayes]

24. Only a little planet:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646089.Only_a_Little_Planet

I have the above book. If you can find it, a nice Xmas gift.....

[nikto]

25. When I see the pic of that beautiful green orb hanging in the sky, I think...

I sure would like to OWN that sucker, and control everything that happens on it,
and get all the money from all the transactions that happen there.

And screw anyone or anything that wants any of what is all mine.

















I'm sure everybody feels the same way.

[brush]

26. Wonder if there were people on the moon . . .

would they think Earth was their moon?

It looks so small in that shot compared to the moon.

[awoke_in_2003]

27. No, they would figure it out eventually

just like we did.

[brush]

28. Wonder how long?

We didn't figure out for centuries that the sun didn't revolve around the earth also.

[dougolat]

29. WARNING! The dominant inhabitants are militant madmen...

..who are turning the place into a toxic waste dump!

[NealK]

30. K&R

[polynomial]

32. Why I call myself Polynomial

I am an autodidact type person in many senses to push the envelope of life. The very same reason this astronaut shows his deep interest to help progress, sort of like taking a mischievous child that is annoying in the objectives of life, but even though grown to a mature man or woman living now as an elected politician removed from under the laws to being a maker of the laws needs to be shown with force by neck to see the big picture in what is good in life.

Please out there in the ether, that space which may not be the last frontier but another transformation so new mysterious or just by reason takes a place in the system we all view in awe. From a view so miraculous omnipotent that God could not exist, or is this really the door way to Eden. Many think that is so…

[B Calm]

34. Maybe the Chinese can give the pols a free ride to the moon. .

[heaven05]

35. HEAR! HEAR!

[ffr]

36. Heck, I'd be satisfied if some Republis would just travel outside the country

to see first hand how others view us in the U.S.

I know one who did just that. He came back with a whole new appreciation. Too bad it took him 58 years to figure out that much.

[L0oniX]

37. K & R

[raouldukelives]

38. Only one we got. Some spend their lives strip mining, drilling, deforesting and investing against it

Others wake up and realize the only legacy worth working for is one that slows down the damage and starts the long road of remediation.

[edbermac]

39. The Blue Marble

Taken by the Apollo 17 crew a few hours after leaving earth orbit.

[Helen Borg]

40. I suggest you watch "Gravity"

It put me in this kind of state of mind for a couple of days...

[DirkGently]

41. That little blue marble is all we've got.

We could do so much more with it, instead of clawing each other's eyes out over resources and imaginary deities.

We could make it work better.

We could do amazing things.

Maybe we still can.

[ReRe]

42. It wouldn't matter....

They wouldn't get it. The most you might get is "Wow, that revolves around me!"