I believe, as the apostles believed, in the forgiveness of sins. I suppose that a person who was once a member of the communist party of the Soviet Union may be forgiven their sins. But as to flying in space, I'm not sure how that would reflect on the salvation of their soul. Anyway, I have no ability to cause anyone to be roaming the stars just yet. Soon, perhaps.
If you think about it, Proxima Centauri, which has an Earth-like world, is only 4 light years or so away. We already know how to use gravitational slingshot effects to move a spacecraft around the sun and around the planet Jupiter again and again to increase its speed to about 10% of the speed of light, using onboard fuel and "Bussard ramjet" collection of the Solar wind and hydrogen molecules in space using magnetic fields. Moving at 10% of the speed of light would allow far more matter to be captured that way, all the way to the destination, which is then only about 40 years away. Children born on the trip would grow up knowing they were coming to a new world. And who knows what the hearts of men might become on the long journey to the stars, as GK Chesterton wondered.
Yes, that's become a very popular view. It's more difficult for me as I have met in person and worked directly with several hundred of the people who worked on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programmes. Of course, in order for me to believe that nobody ever went to the Moon, not even into lunar orbit, I would necessarily have to begin calling all of my friends and co-workers liars, and I don't have any basis for doing so. In addition to this problem for me, I also know ham radio operators who were able to triangulate the television signals coming from the Moon at the time of the lunar landings of the Surveyor and Apollo landers. It is, of course, easier to generate television signals than it is to have people walking around on the lunar surface. Even such simple matters as the very high rate of cancer among the lunar travellers is consistent with the radiation environment they were in. But none of that matters to the flat earther types who want to say that humans are too incompetent, or too fragile, to be able to send humans all the way to the Moon. But, we did. Should I mind if you have your doubts? I do not mind.
That treaty is an abomination. A Communist one, no less. I'll be saying this until the day I die, and likely thereafter:
Communists can never be allowed to leave this planet. Not even to go to the Moon.
They are far too dangerous to be roaming the stars.
I believe, as the apostles believed, in the forgiveness of sins. I suppose that a person who was once a member of the communist party of the Soviet Union may be forgiven their sins. But as to flying in space, I'm not sure how that would reflect on the salvation of their soul. Anyway, I have no ability to cause anyone to be roaming the stars just yet. Soon, perhaps.
If you think about it, Proxima Centauri, which has an Earth-like world, is only 4 light years or so away. We already know how to use gravitational slingshot effects to move a spacecraft around the sun and around the planet Jupiter again and again to increase its speed to about 10% of the speed of light, using onboard fuel and "Bussard ramjet" collection of the Solar wind and hydrogen molecules in space using magnetic fields. Moving at 10% of the speed of light would allow far more matter to be captured that way, all the way to the destination, which is then only about 40 years away. Children born on the trip would grow up knowing they were coming to a new world. And who knows what the hearts of men might become on the long journey to the stars, as GK Chesterton wondered.
I have my doubts whether anyone has gone to the moon.
Yes, that's become a very popular view. It's more difficult for me as I have met in person and worked directly with several hundred of the people who worked on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programmes. Of course, in order for me to believe that nobody ever went to the Moon, not even into lunar orbit, I would necessarily have to begin calling all of my friends and co-workers liars, and I don't have any basis for doing so. In addition to this problem for me, I also know ham radio operators who were able to triangulate the television signals coming from the Moon at the time of the lunar landings of the Surveyor and Apollo landers. It is, of course, easier to generate television signals than it is to have people walking around on the lunar surface. Even such simple matters as the very high rate of cancer among the lunar travellers is consistent with the radiation environment they were in. But none of that matters to the flat earther types who want to say that humans are too incompetent, or too fragile, to be able to send humans all the way to the Moon. But, we did. Should I mind if you have your doubts? I do not mind.