I know I know. Spread my seed and get my DNA out there.
Dont worry, im on the case
Good work, it's good to know that inter species offspring are usually sterile
The Human Race 'Must Colonise Space Or Face Extinction'
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Good work, it's good to know that inter species offspring are usually sterile
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fixing, maintinence, etc are not necessarly comprised of complex physics.
technically we send unmanned drones into space as it is, because they 'live' longer than a human would do in the same conditions.
And it's cheaper, and actually possible.
Or this
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You can't launch tens of thousands of tons with it though, although it may be more efficient for long range spaceflight. For an interstellar ship using that you would require huge nuclear power plants which would be very heavy.
Technological costs have always been reducing due to experience with materials and development speed of computers.
The one thing that has not got significantly cheaper (even accounting for inflation) is the weight per cost of putting mass into space. We need a solution to this. Space elevators probably will never work and scramjet tech is taking forever, orion would likely be the fastest route for making it cheap to put big things into space.
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Good work, it's good to know that inter species offspring are usually sterile
That means you wont have to worry about contraception ever again.
Lucky you!
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We should launch a gay man into space with 10 hot women - lets see how long he lasts
Presumably he'd last as long as you would if we launched you in to space with the 10 best looking men in the world.
Forever! If you're a homo, you're not interested in women!
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Homo's can be cured though.
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You're all stupid.
All we need to do is save the cheerleader.
All we need to do is save the cheerleader.
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Yes, I was thinking more from the perspective of the mission vehicle being constructed in space, in a 'Star Trek' style.
You mean millions of more years on Earth? At the current technological boom rate humans will be casually planet travelling way sooner.
Current technological boom rates? The technological boom rates are only along certain trajectories. Miniaturisation really. This is key - the main technologies that are expanding are those that respond to miniturisation. That's not space flight.
There isn't a technological boom rate in space travel, less manned space flight. The manned space flight trajectory is negative. At this rates there won't be a human in space within a few decades. The ISS will fall out of the sky before a replacement goes up. Every man who walked on the Moon will be dead before anyone else does...
How do you get space tugs big enough to put asteroids into orbit around the Earth though? And then how do you get the space production industry started without lifting heavy machinery from the Earth? It would bankrupt the Earth to do it with conventional rockets.
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colonies space. LOL!
First we have to actually leave our planets atmosphere. How about the first task is to get a robot to the moon.
First we have to actually leave our planets atmosphere. How about the first task is to get a robot to the moon.
That's not true at all. There is still a lot manned space flights and even if there isn't doesn't mean the technology is not being researched and developed. There is a lot of stuff going into manned missions to mars.
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If we all stopped fighting and put all our resources into curing disease, colonising space etc. there is nothing we could not achieve. Just look at how well the US does with all the states under one government. Unless that ever happens and we all stay split up into competing countries, as a race we are doomed.
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i think you could put all of the money in the world into curing disease and still not cure all diseases.. and then what about hunger and alternative energies etc?
well technically it was the 'space race' due to competition of the US and Soviets that forced the development of the technolgy to get us into space and to the moon really...
so history does actually disagree with your proposal and assumption...
and well i guess the germans were going to do it too, not to compete but because they were brutal in their determination to own everything. greed is a great business driver.
collaboration = too many politics.
well technically it was the 'space race' due to competition of the US and Soviets that forced the development of the technolgy to get us into space and to the moon really...
so history does actually disagree with your proposal and assumption...
and well i guess the germans were going to do it too, not to compete but because they were brutal in their determination to own everything. greed is a great business driver.
collaboration = too many politics.
I think this puts it into perspective....
"The nearest known star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.23 light-years away. The fastest outward-bound spacecraft yet sent, Voyager 1, has covered 1/600th of a light-year in 30 years and is currently moving at 1/18,000th the speed of light. At this rate, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take 72,000 years."
"The nearest known star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.23 light-years away. The fastest outward-bound spacecraft yet sent, Voyager 1, has covered 1/600th of a light-year in 30 years and is currently moving at 1/18,000th the speed of light. At this rate, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take 72,000 years."