Uk full steam ahead for Nuclear power

[TykeMerc]

Those spires on the top are cheating. Height records should be based on the top of the highest room big enough to swing a cat, and not a cat sized room sitting lonesome at the top of a cheating mast either.

You've got a good point there although I suppose the architects would argue the final height being the top of some mast has to be published for air safety.

[d000hg]

SB, I asked you to defend your point it wouldn't be achieved and you've instead argued it shouldn't. Since people do things that are bad, do you really think it is impossible or only wish it were?

On the moral angle, what about the moon landings? Equally pointless?

[TykeMerc]

SB, I asked you to defend your point it wouldn't be achieved and you've instead argued it shouldn't. Since people do things that are bad, do you really think it is impossible or only wish it were?

On the moral angle, what about the moon landings? Equally pointless?

I'm sure it's possible (or will be before overly long) to build mile high buildings given sufficient space and sturdy bedrock, however I don't really see the point.

I don't think the USA made it a secret that the moon landings had a significant element of doing it for the plaudits, but there was also undoubtedly hope that people would spread further than just the Earth. At that time technological achievement was a big driver and there was serious belief that people would have robotic automated houses, hover cars and nuclear reactors would be as common as dogs.

[shaunbhoy]

SB, I asked you to defend your point it wouldn't be achieved and you've instead argued it shouldn't

Read back jelly head. I said it wouldn't happen in our lifetime.

[BlasterBates]

The moon landings had a clear purpose, which was to put a man on the moon, and bring him back again.

[TimberWolf]

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

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Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there."

Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

Great speech, but you said it would be short.
The History Place - Great Speeches Collection: John F. Kennedy Speech "We choose to go to the Moon..."

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Another nice line.

[d000hg]

Read back jelly head. I said it wouldn't happen in our lifetime.

And I asked why, which is when you started on about the moral aspects. You also said we'd have to live 5000 years, which suggests you think it's basically never going to happen.

So to rewind... why don't you think it will happen in our lifetimes, when at least one such project is already out for tender?

[doodab]

Great speech, but you said it would be short.
The History Place - Great Speeches Collection: John F. Kennedy Speech "We choose to go to the Moon..."


Another nice line.

Oddly I was thinking of that at 5am when I got in from celebrating and watched the sunrise with the moon hanging over the mountains. It made me think of watching a documentary about NASA with my son and explaining to him how awesome the whole trip to the moon was and why. I may have had a drunken blubbing moment.

[TimberWolf]

Oddly I was thinking of that at 5am when I got in from celebrating and watched the sunrise with the moon hanging over the mountains. It made me think of watching a documentary about NASA with my son and explaining to him how awesome the whole trip to the moon was and why. I may have had a drunken blubbing moment.

J F Kennedy seems like a great man. A central theme to that speech is peace, IMO. He wanted to get there first for mankind, which makes Armstrong's line about about a giant leap for mankind especially fitting. Good job well done, shame he got himself killed shortly afterwards. But no doubt our descendants will be watching that video of him for time immemorial.

[shaunbhoy]

So to rewind... why don't you think it will happen in our lifetimes, when at least one such project is already out for tender?

There is no actual need for it, and little appetite for it I'd suggest, beyond the drawing board stage.
Man has already proved he can build high buildings, little kudos to be gained for what would be a phenomenal outlay.
It will get talked about, but there will be little real will to actually fund it. Good thing too, collossal waste of time, money, and resources.