Protection of Apollo Moon Landing Sites Sparks Controversy

If you want to claim and protect these sites, then you have to have access to them. We can't even put a man in LEO for the foreseeable future.

And then you have pedophiles like Dayton3 who want to abandon the Moon for Mars.

We do what we have to do to keep threads in the Red Room where we put them.

Uncle Albert - Lunar Park Ranger

Dayton's pedophilia has nothing to do with his stance on Mars v. Moon.

He should be on the No-Fly list.

By international treaty, any location on the Moon can be claimed by no nation. Even a pedophile like Dayton can freely visit. Now whether he'd be able to return to Earth, that's a more complicated question.

It would probably cause a space battle. :wongtard:

You know that has to eventually change once the Chinese start putting colonies, mines, and factories there.

Guys, Ray is the pedophile.

Dayton is good people.

It's a fake!
UA would never drive an electric powered vehicle.

It's nuclear powered and that's badass.

There he is!! Let's go block his jeep!!

I would hope who ever goes back to the moon protects the landing sites. They are important.

There is no reason why some form of internal combustion would not be possible in a vacuum. Probably involve multiple tanks of compressed gases, and it wouldn't be at all practical to launch all those heavy, inefficient parts into space, but air-filled tires in a vacuum, that's a bit of an obstacle.

It's shear lunacy I tells ya!

So how much would Smaller Gubmint charge the taxpayer to maintain these sites?

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I think governments probably would respect those sites. It's actually the private sector that concerns me on this one. Look at what they've done to the Titanic.

How's that? You'd need less air on the moon to fill the tires than here.

The United States does not own any part of the moon and therefore any country landing on the moon can lay claim to that abandoned stuff and there ain't shit can be done about it.

Perhaps the U.S. should withdraw from the Outer Space Treaty.

Yeah, it's not like we're actually going to outer space anymore.

You're not very bright. Nasa outsourced LEO flights to Space X and, yes, their rocket works fine.

At best, they will rapidly lose air pressure in a vacuum. At worst, they'll fucking explode (I think this is more likely). It's why the lunar rover rolled on wheels formed from a mesh of something similar to piano wire.

I'm guessing you already knew this, though.