Assuming we'll even exist 2 billion years from now.
You are aware of the Intergalactic Borders Space Patrol ? Illegal aliens usually find themselves in a black hole.
For us it's Manifest Destiny. We are just trying to return from where our ancestors came from thousands of years ago.
Thousands of years ago the Perseus Confederacy picked the planet Earth to be used as a space penal colony. After checking out South America and what is today the Middle East, it was discovered that these areas were already occupied by Earthlings who still had a foot in the stone age. So the Perseus Confederacy chose what is today Northern Europe to be used as a penal colony.
After thousands of year the descendent's of the original convicts decided why should we be punished living on this basket case of a planet for the crimes our ancestors committed thousands of years ago ?
So it's been our "Manifest Destiny" to return too our real home where our ancestors came from, the Perseus Arm of the Milkyway Galaxy.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Galactic_Quadrant_Star_Trek.png
it's a lot more important than many other things we spend money on, and i would increase science funding significantly. of course, i'm a scientist, so i suppose that i might be a bit biased. :lol:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/09/06/science/ap-us-sci-nasa-moonshot.html?hp
We just shot a cool new probe to the moon, but how important is space exploration to the future of America? Is there none? Do we need to get back up there?
it's a lot more important than many other things we spend money on, and i would increase science funding significantly. of course, i'm a scientist, so i suppose that i might be a bit biased. :lol:
None of that is even remotely doable, none zip zero zilch nada1 2 3 4 5 6
There are more advantages than disadvantages, thus providing a net gain to our nation (and the world).
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/09/06/science/ap-us-sci-nasa-moonshot.html?hp
We just shot a cool new probe to the moon, but how important is space exploration to the future of America? Is there none? Do we need to get back up there?
Let's develop commercial power generation from fusion.
Imagine a world with virtually free and unlimited energy!
that's all well and good but you are going to need something a scratch better than this
None of that is even remotely doable, none zip zero zilch nada
Last thing we need is another government rathole to pour money down
Fine private enterprise wants to try and make money lofting satellites into orbit
and running resupply missions to the ISS that is all well and good.
We haven't gotten anywhere near the level of technological advancement
required to even begin to start trying to accomplish the things you've listed.
If you wanna spend money here is where you could put it.
If you wanna favorably alter the course of human history.
Let's develop commercial power generation from fusion.
Imagine a world with virtually free and unlimited energy!
I have a few friends who work at CAL-TECH and JPL and they aren't happy campers with Obama in the White House and his total neglect of what they were trying to accomplish.
In fact last week I was visiting one of them. I mentioned how I have to work with the Burial of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service with the project I'm involved with right now and they tell me with Obama it's as if nobody is in charge. We see the same thing with the IRS and DHS. My friend gets up looking pissed and say's exactly, nobody is in charge any longer.
This guy who Obama put in charge of NASA is second rate just like everyone else in the Obama administration. NASA is now in the business of social engineering. Got to reach out to the Muslims is the top priority of NASA.
So the ISS has revealed a lot of interesting things, the foremost of this is how bad humans do in space. If you spend over 6months in space your body is prone to all manner of disasters, including going blind because of the way fluids in your eyes behave. And there is no way to fix this without artificial gravity. Sure, there are proposals for AG but no working model.
A manned mission to Mars will take at least 2 years. That's 4x more than the recommended stay in space. Unless we find a way to counter this (hint hint ,artificial gravity) there is no such thing as interplanetary travel, let alone interstellar travel.
thankfully, we don't have to send people yet. We can send probes and robots. Robots don't need to have AI, just very good software and the ability to be manually controlled. Like curiosity is, but you know, specialized for certain tasks.
Isn't the private sector always better than the government?
i believe that humanity can get its act toghether and build wonders like this
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There's no reason to make shoes for children too poor to buy them. Well actually there is a good reason, but that's not Capitalism.Not always. The private sector often will not do something unless there is gaurunteed profit to be made. Since they often only think in the short term...well...you get the picture.
Well what I had got from it.....was that NASA would build a Base on the Moon by 2024. That it would be fully functional with the Start of building in 2020. That they would be working with the Private sector to do this.
Nasa to build permanent moon base
Nasa to build permanent moon base | Science | theguardian.com
We won the space race and the cold war
and we own the moon What else is there to do?
Ugh, depressing. That was written in 2006. Have we tested the next generation of ships? Are we doing manned flights next year?
We won the space race and the cold war
and we own the moon What else is there to do?
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