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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 12/10/2025 7:40 AM, knuttle wrote:   
   > On 12/10/2025 12:57 AM, Paul wrote:   
   >> elf a very uncomfortable question. How did they actually   
   >> pull this off? Now, before you think I'm some conspiracy theorist, let me   
   >> be clear. I'm a physicist. I work on string theory at the City University   
   >> of New York. I believe in evidence. I believe in mathematics. I believe   
   >> in the scientific method. And that's exactly why this questio   
   > You forgot the politics.  We have not been back to the moon because the   
   nation changed its focus from research to social engineering.   
   >   
   > Fortunately we are seeing a slight return to engineering and research with   
   the new Nuclear plants that are starting to be built to provide energy to the   
   data banks. We will all benefit.   
   >   
   > People bitched because of all of the money spent going to the moon.  Do you   
   that not one penny was spent on the moon, it was all spent on the people on   
   the earth.   
      
   Well, it's a video, to make money.   
      
   Rather than having any intention of furthering   
   old discussions.   
      
   The original moon landing was approached like many of the   
   extraterrestrial robotic missions. One ship. Descent stage.   
   Ascent stage. Return and so on. It's a linear sequence of   
   plausible activities.   
      
   The current plan isn't really a complete plan at the moment,   
   which means it could stretch to infinity. One company making   
   space suits, bowed out of the work. I don't know if there are   
   any suits to wear for the people. Based on what keeps happening   
   to the space suit work, this should be a highest priority activity.   
      
   There is a thing that looks like a space-ready ship,   
   with no adornments to finish the mission. Like   
   a taxi cab without seats. It can fly an orbit around the   
   moon and bring its tourists back, without landing.   
      
   How can you execute such expensive projects, without   
   a plan ? There is some amount of a linear sequence,   
   but it is not complete and the story keeps changing.   
      
   And many things that humans do now, are like this.   
   An inability to plan.   
      
   My favorite example is the public transit system here.   
      
   Multiple cities have the same problem. You can bicycle   
   faster than you can ride public transit. Just recently a   
   new service opened in another city, and they were saying   
   "you can run faster than this thing drives across town".   
   That is how we benchmark our expensive public transit   
   projects, by how slow they are.   
      
   We used to have a system, where the buses more or less   
   went in straight lines. Now, the buses meander through   
   every subdivision in the city. That's what burns up   
   fifty minutes of your trip, is "driving past everybody   
   elses house".   
      
      Paul   
      
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