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Honestly? I dream about it more than anything else. I love space but I somehow doubt I'll ever be in space.
However, I think our future is out in space in one way or another. In one we are out there, gaining territory and saving ourselves from a world that cannot sustain our massive population. In another... well, whatever is left of us will still be out there.
However, I think our future is out in space in one way or another. In one we are out there, gaining territory and saving ourselves from a world that cannot sustain our massive population. In another... well, whatever is left of us will still be out there.
Eh, yeah... I guess.
Y'know, I find it hard to get all enthusiastic about space. The real life space isn't anywhere near as exiting as the various fictional version. It's just rocks and dust floating around in a whole lot of nothing. Besides, there's no way we'll ever be able to get out of the solar system in my lifetime.
I'm tempted to trot out the old line of, "We should use the resources to fix all our problems down here before we try to hit the stars." But that rings hollow. After all, we've had thousands of years without space travel and we still haven't gotten around to creating utopia. I doubt that's going to happen any time soon.
There's always the resource argument. It is getting distinctly crowded on this planet and we'll eventually mine it out. In space we could mine to our heart's content without having to worry about screwing up the environment.
And hey, there's always that remote chance of running into the Asari or Geth.
So yeah. Yay space travel.
Y'know, I find it hard to get all enthusiastic about space. The real life space isn't anywhere near as exiting as the various fictional version. It's just rocks and dust floating around in a whole lot of nothing. Besides, there's no way we'll ever be able to get out of the solar system in my lifetime.
I'm tempted to trot out the old line of, "We should use the resources to fix all our problems down here before we try to hit the stars." But that rings hollow. After all, we've had thousands of years without space travel and we still haven't gotten around to creating utopia. I doubt that's going to happen any time soon.
There's always the resource argument. It is getting distinctly crowded on this planet and we'll eventually mine it out. In space we could mine to our heart's content without having to worry about screwing up the environment.
And hey, there's always that remote chance of running into the Asari or Geth.
So yeah. Yay space travel.
Except the Cracked stuff was out of date.Quaxar said:
For instance plasma engines could get you to Mars in 60 days under 1G of acceleration the whole way, foiling the lack of gravity and the long travel times.
We have tech to do it, we don't have the will.
I'm gonna be attending a Yuri's Night event around here tonight, really looking forward to it.
I fully agree that we should be focusing attention on getting to space, which is why I'm working hard on it, personally. NASA is becoming increasingly irrelevant and will be taking more of a research angle than an exploration role. Private space companies are rapidly moving forward, however, and awesome things are on the horizon. If we're going to survive as a species we need to become a space-faring civilization, and stop putting all of our eggs in one basket where a single asteroid can wipe us all out... and that completely ignores all the added resources that can be gained by adding another astronomical body.
Its an exciting time to be doing this stuff, and companies like the one I work for are going to drag the human race into space whether NASA helps or not. Huzzah!
I fully agree that we should be focusing attention on getting to space, which is why I'm working hard on it, personally. NASA is becoming increasingly irrelevant and will be taking more of a research angle than an exploration role. Private space companies are rapidly moving forward, however, and awesome things are on the horizon. If we're going to survive as a species we need to become a space-faring civilization, and stop putting all of our eggs in one basket where a single asteroid can wipe us all out... and that completely ignores all the added resources that can be gained by adding another astronomical body.
Its an exciting time to be doing this stuff, and companies like the one I work for are going to drag the human race into space whether NASA helps or not. Huzzah!
I think they should continue pursuing space travel and colonisation. Or stop people from having more than one child, everywhere. Because we are using our resources far too fast and we need somewhere else to get them and somewhere else to go. Also, there is only so much here on Earth, if people were not so greedy, and not so prone to spend on pointless wars, we could really be making progress into creating a better, more wide-spread and stable human population.
I was thinking more of economic developement and I apologise for simply wanting to post my thoughts on a forum in a casual way. I did not know I was writing a thesis here.
These achieveents were made due to the race for technological supremacy betwen the USSR and USA, which was a part of a war. A COLD war!
So it appears that all we achieve is to get better at killing, or understanding the universe and all of its celestial bodies so that we could PLACE A GIANT SPACE LASER IN SPACE!
So it appears that all we achieve is to get better at killing, or understanding the universe and all of its celestial bodies so that we could PLACE A GIANT SPACE LASER IN SPACE!
It's beautiful to think about. I want to be an astronomer when I grow up, so I think that space exploration and study is extremely important. But that's about as meaningful as Michael Vick telling us that animal rights activists are going too far...x EvilErmine x said:
Also, I want to go to space. Badly.
BSA is developing the space telescope to succeed the Hubble Telescope. Also i hope that within my life time we will atleast have travelled to Mars. If we all just stay here with our fingers up our... then all the achievements and scientific discoveries we have made by now will mean jack all, the only way we would be remembered is on the one off chance some other space civilisation comes to this planet and sees the ruins of Human Civilisation before the sun expands and burns this planet or even consumes it. So yeah to survive as a race we first need to expand to the Moon or even we could create a Space Station for people to live and work on first given though that maybe a Moon Colony would cost less. But in the end this blue jewel we live on is not eternal nor is the Sun our best chance is to first expand to the Moon then to Mars then the moons surrounding the Gas Giants or just mine them for resources and after that expand into the Galaxy and if our race evolves and survives to the point where we can transverse between galaxies then we have done a bloody brilliant job of surviving.
Space travel should be put on hold indefinitely. The governments of the world have nothing to gain from space exploration. Not to mention, with our current technology colonization and even heavily maned space stations are a wild unfocused dream. The fantasy of living in space sounds fine and dandy; in reality, with our current technology you'll be living in a tiny room with several people, with no privacy, and with limited water and electricity, for months at a time. It's a horrible unforgiving void out there. The only ones who should attempt to go to space are private corporations, but even they know there's nothing to gain by going out there.
Besides, life on planet Earth is not as bad as you people make it seem. Resources on Earth will last for a very long time, thousands of years, and advancing technology is only making the necessity for those resources go down. There is no overpopulation, the threat of global annihilation is very small, wars cost a fraction of money and lives then they used to, technological advances make today look like a fevered dream to the people who would envision flying cars and such. Why space? My guess, it's the new fantasy adventure, it's people finding space dragons and star magic. From what I read by previous posts, space is more like a game than a serious venture.
TLDR, Everything is amazing and no one is happy.
Besides, life on planet Earth is not as bad as you people make it seem. Resources on Earth will last for a very long time, thousands of years, and advancing technology is only making the necessity for those resources go down. There is no overpopulation, the threat of global annihilation is very small, wars cost a fraction of money and lives then they used to, technological advances make today look like a fevered dream to the people who would envision flying cars and such. Why space? My guess, it's the new fantasy adventure, it's people finding space dragons and star magic. From what I read by previous posts, space is more like a game than a serious venture.
TLDR, Everything is amazing and no one is happy.
A space elevator would be fantastic, I would love to see it happen. It's very dangerous if it goes wrong though, and I don't think we have the materials science yet to build one successfully. We are more likely to be able to build a space fountain instead since that doesn't require such super-strong materials. However, space fountains are for those who think a space elevator is too boring and mundane:x EvilErmine x said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
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"A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever."Mr. Froggy said:
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Staying bound to one world is keeping all our eggs in one basket. One cosmic catastrophe, one errant rock, and there are no more humans. We have a duty to our species to get off this one little rock as soon as we can. We need to grow beyond mere Homo Sapiens Sapiens and become Homo Sapiens Stellae. We should be ignoring the economists who tell us we can't, and listen to the engineers who tell us we can.
There should be a continued effort in the advancement of space exploration, but with the state of the world as it is it would be more beneficial for scientist and engineers to focus on clearing up at least half of the problems Earth has. However if, in an imaginary scenario, things were cleared up in about 50 years or so, there would probably be at least two more space stations or some means of faster travel through space. Then comes the heightened dangers of meteors, solar flares, and that one GRB.