Building a Rocketship & Lunar Adventures

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the whimsical idea of building a rocketship and exploring the moon, including humorous and fantastical elements such as creating a wormhole and playing sports on the lunar surface. Participants engage in a lighthearted exchange about the feasibility and absurdity of these concepts, blending humor with speculative ideas.

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  • Exploratory
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Main Points Raised

  • One participant proposes building a rocketship and a wormhole to connect various locations, suggesting a playful moon adventure.
  • Another participant questions the seriousness of the initial proposal, indicating uncertainty about the intent behind the ideas presented.
  • Some participants express skepticism about the practicality of the ideas, with one noting that there is already a group, the Artemis Project, working on lunar exploration.
  • Humorous claims are made about playing sports on the moon, including exaggerated feats of athleticism and nonsensical comparisons involving ice cream.
  • There are playful exchanges about naming lunar craters and the absurdity of certain statements, with participants challenging each other's logic and humor.
  • One participant expresses a desire to avoid basketball during the moon adventure, citing personal health concerns and a lack of interest in the sport.
  • Another participant humorously suggests selling diamonds from a star, adding to the fantastical nature of the discussion.
  • Several posts involve playful banter and jokes, with participants referencing each other's comments in a lighthearted manner.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion features multiple competing views, with some participants taking the initial proposal seriously while others treat it as a joke. There is no consensus on the feasibility or seriousness of the ideas presented.

Contextual Notes

Participants express various assumptions and uncertainties about the practicality of space travel and the specific ideas proposed, such as the connection between ice cream and sports on the moon.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in humorous takes on space exploration, speculative discussions about physics and engineering, or lighthearted banter within a community focused on STEM topics may find this thread engaging.

Would you help me build a rocketship and come to the moon with me?

  • Yes

    Votes: 18 75.0%

  • No

    Votes: 6 25.0%
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If I decided to build a rocketship would you guys help me? How about if I made a totally safe wormhole connecting Holland, Colorado, London, and Guam? We could build it in my backyard. Sh*t we could go to the moon, and do the moonwalk, in a moonwalk, on the moon. We'd have to play football with a 400 yard field, since, 50 yards would be like ice cream that's been sitting in an observatory for 3 and a half years . I bet I'd be able to do the sickest dunks ever on the moon. 1080 no-handed triple windwill backflip tomahawk over Indy from halfcourt on Shaq and Yao.

While we're there, we'd name a crater after Moonbear and chuck all the crackpots off. But then everyone would get addicted to space-opium...

Hows about it?
 
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I'm still trying to figure out if you're just playing here or if you've flipped your wig and are serious. :biggrin:
 
This thread is so dumb. Shaq would fly up 400 feet into the air and eat you
 
Moonbear said:
I'm still trying to figure out if you're just playing here or if you've flipped your wig and are serious. :biggrin:

I'm serious, you deserve a crater named after you!
 
Pengwuino said:
This thread is so dumb. Shaq would fly up 400 feet into the air and eat you
You're so dumb. There's no air on the moon.
 
Mk said:
If I decided to build a rocketship would you guys help me?
You're a bit late with this idea. There is already a group trying to do this, they call themselves the Artemis Project and they've been at it for over a decade.

http://www.asi.org/
 
But they didn't think of the ice cream and basketball...
 
Mk said:
I'm serious, you deserve a crater named after you!


Wow! You sure know how to flatter the ladies. :rolleyes:
 
Mk said:
If I decided to build a rocketship would you guys help me? How about if I made a totally safe wormhole connecting Holland, Colorado, London, and Guam? We could build it in my backyard. Sh*t we could go to the moon, and do the moonwalk, in a moonwalk, on the moon. We'd have to play football with a 400 yard field, since, 50 yards would be like ice cream that's been sitting in an observatory for 3 and a half years . I bet I'd be able to do the sickest dunks ever on the moon. 1080 no-handed triple windwill backflip tomahawk over Indy from halfcourt on Shaq and Yao.

While we're there, we'd name a crater after Moonbear and chuck all the crackpots off. But then everyone would get addicted to space-opium...

Hows about it?
We could look for Alan Shepard's golf ball! :bugeye:
 
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Mk said:
We'd have to play football with a 400 yard field, since, 50 yards would be like ice cream that's been sitting in an observatory for 3 and a half years . I bet I'd be able to do the sickest dunks ever on the moon. 1080 no-handed triple windwill backflip tomahawk over Indy from halfcourt on Shaq and Yao.

Hows about it?
I seriously suspect that you're accessing the Net from an institution of some sort. (That's why I voted 'yes'. :biggrin: )
That entire above quote makes absolutely no sense to me. What has 3 1/2 year old ice cream got to do with 50 yards? And since when does Shaq slam-dunk footballs?
I'll come along on 2 conditions.
1) No stresses over 2g; my health isn't very good right now.
2) No basketball. That has got to be the most useless endeavor ever undertaken by anyone. No fun to do, and even less to watch. (Even though it was a friend of my dad's who invented it—in Almont Ontario where he grew up, using a soccer ball and a peach basket with the bottom cut out.)
 
  • #11
jma2001 said:
You're a bit late with this idea. There is already a group trying to do this, they call themselves the Artemis Project and they've been at it for over a decade.

http://www.asi.org/
So if we actually did this, we'd look as dumb as them...hmm..shame, moon, shame, moon. Hard decision :-p
 
  • #12
Danger said:
That entire above quote makes absolutely no sense to me. What has 3 1/2 year old ice cream got to do with 50 yards? And since when does Shaq slam-dunk footballs?
Well, I was going to put something anthropomorphic there, but I couldn't think of one. That similie doesn't make since.

Danger said:
it was a friend of my dad's who invented it—in Almont Ontario where he grew up, using a soccer ball and a peach basket with the bottom cut out.
Oh, I thought that was Al Gore...
 
  • #13
hey ! I'm with you, let's fly to that huge diamond star and cut off little bit and sell it here on earth.
 
  • #14
*randomly points at Moon and names a crator a Moonhole*

WOOO
 
  • #15
cronxeh said:
*randomly points at Moon and names a crator a Moonhole*
About half a dozen apt responses come to mind, but they'd all get me slapped.
 
  • #16
There now, my Canadian friend, its only a Moonhole-Bear junction sprocket with cam shaft realignment that will get you in trouble.. "think geek" and do it fast.
 
  • #17
cronxeh said:
There now, my Canadian friend, its only a Moonhole-Bear junction sprocket with cam shaft realignment that will get you in trouble.. "think geek" and do it fast.
Oh great... now I have to replan my entire week.
 
  • #18
Danger said:
About half a dozen apt responses come to mind, but they'd all get me slapped.

cronxeh said:
There now, my Canadian friend, its only a Moonhole-Bear junction sprocket with cam shaft realignment that will get you in trouble.. "think geek" and do it fast.

Danger said:
Oh great... now I have to replan my entire week.

Y'know, I might just slap you anyway, but I'm afraid you might like it too much.
 
  • #19
Moonbear said:
Y'know, I might just slap you anyway, but I'm afraid you might like it too much.
Please... :shy:
 
  • #20
Danger said:
Please... :shy:

Yep, just as I suspected. :smile:
 
  • #21
lmao @ mk

I didn't think you knew who yao ming is.
 
  • #22
by the powers of necromancy..

i resurrect thy thread!
 
  • #23
There sure is nothing to say... Too bad I didn't win an award.
 
  • #24
I've been eating quite a lot of watermelon seeds since a few days ago by the way.
 
  • #25
by themselves?
 
  • #26
No, I wolfed down the flesh, seeds and all.
 
  • #27
do the seeds get digested or do they pass through intact?
 
  • #28
I haven't checked my poo very closely enough recently to see. Corn passes right through intact. But the inside is digested and absorbed out.