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  1. 10-11-2009, 10:00 AM #1
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    To launch a pound of anything past escape velocity from the Earth requires approximately 100 lb of thrust.

    To launch the same pound from the Moon requires 1/6th that. (Difference in Earth vs Lunar gravity.)

    The only feasable way to have a base on the Moon with current tech level is if we can "live off the land", as it were.
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    So explain this, you smartypants!
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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post

    So explain this, you smartypants!
    Ah, yes! Cartoon astrophysics...proof that alternate universes exist?
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    There's WATER in them thar rocks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
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