I'm sure alot of you don't even know what I'm talking about.
It was a show about people living in a Moon base, it was on in the seventies I believe. :)
2006-08-21 02:33:50 · 7 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yea I remember Maya, hard to remember the other people though.
2006-08-21 02:42:49 · update #1
Hey, I loved that show! (Corny as it often was.) The premise, of course, is entirely outlandish. A nuclear explosion could never knock the moon out of orbit like that, let alone far enough for it to pass by other star systems every week.
That said, something like Moon Base Alpha may not be completely implausible...at least insofar as having several hundred people living on the moon and going about in thruster-powered shuttles of some kind. Of course, gravity would be still be 1/6th of Earth and likely most of the complex would be underground to help shield it from radiation and micrometeroids. However, I'd say give us a couple of hundred years of steady development and commitment to reach that point.
2006-08-21 04:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It'll never happen that way, which means that it's inevitable.
That's a cute way of saying that where there is opportunity, life will follow. For a fun read check out a phenomenal book by Mr. Vermeij, cited below. He talks about the history of life - like how it was that the coastal oceans of this planet were superior net producers of life, compared to land-based ecosystems... until 300 million years ago, when far more land-based species began colonizing the oceans, rather than the other way around.
Does make you think, don't it? Whales and dolphins are mammals, after all... why would they return to the ocean, unless they had advantages against the "home team"?
Anyway. Point being, land may as well have been the Moon so far as ocean based life went. Barren. BUT that was an opportunity for a few tough-risk taking species! No competition on the lifeless land - it was a new niche.
In fact, life is pretty much everywhere on this dear planet of ours, nowadays.
There won't be life in space on a permanent basis, until humanity goes into space to live there. That will start to happen about seventeen minutes after someone powerful amongst our political classes realizes just how much wealth is out there.
It may not be the USA that takes the risk. Heck, if we humans ever make ourselves extinct, it may be the intelligent descendants of meerkats, but life *will* get out into space.
We will see some kind of city on the moon. I'm sure of that. What form will it take? Beats me.
2006-08-21 08:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by wm_omnibus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real life will never be like a seventies TV show.
They might make a movie based on it.
They made movies about most of the seventies shows.
I don't think they could use the same name though.
2006-08-21 03:01:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just remember I had a crush on the shape-shifter, Maya.
2006-08-21 02:40:03 · answer #4 · answered by corus_corvax 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Star Trek had a better idea of the sort of styling that was coming, and even that has dated.
2006-08-21 02:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by malcolmg 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's hope it will be more like ST the original series.. can't stand Barbara Bain or Martin Landau.. LOL
2006-08-21 02:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
idk what u talking about.
2006-08-21 03:07:23 · answer #7 · answered by Man 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋