Golden Spike space firm plans $1.4bn Moon trips

platypus said:
You realise that electric cars are significantly better than that, right?
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Go on, enlighten me?

It is arguable over when the first electric vehicle was actually produced, but we are looking at something like 1890 (William Morrison) or the 1904 Columbia Electric Runabout.
SO now 112 years later - what exactly do we have?
Hybrids - which still have a petrol engine and their 'efficiency' compared to a very modern efficient petrol engine is questionable.
Electric cars - range 80-110 miles at best.
Electric cars with petrol generator - if setting off fully charged its like an electric car, when the juice runs out you're back to running on petrol.

This is hardly space-age technology and we've had 112 years... :(
 
xMarkie said:
What if we point them the other way? :confused:
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:D:D:D:D:D:D tears, streaming, down face

Thank you, you made my miserable day joyful again.
 
I think he should just be ignored by every one tbh. His pathetic argument seems to always start with "enlighten me" as if he knows people cannot answer.
 
Combat squirrel said:
You dont get it do you?

All those issues can be solved by high investment in space tech :confused: :confused:

People starve because there is not enough farm land, because the planet is to small and the population is to high, we need to get more food out of a smaller growing area.

THE ONLY funded research for this is......space travel and trust me, if they found a power supply to power an FTL ship.......the energy problems on Earth would also be solved over night.

Im just being blunt here, but, think before you post, educate and entertain yourself with logical thought and dont just look at a problem and say its a problem, realize, that they can be solved, and the most likely route to solving them is space travel research.
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Well thanks, but I think you don't get it.

The point is we should all get together and solve the important problems of the human race to ensure it survives.

It is no good starting a company offering trips to the moon if you got $1.4bn in your pocket and calling this any sort of advancement. Because it isn't. We can send the worlds 1000 billionaires to the moon the team behind the project can feel hugely smug but in reality nothing has changed except 1000 people will have some wonderful photos to show their grandchildren who have never gone hungry or had to watch their family wiped out in a random artillery attack.

So unless the only reason to advance in space travel is to go and bring back some sort of galactic trouble solver like John Harvey-Jones to sort out the short comings in the human race and rectify Earth - our focus should be on more important things than far flung pie in the sky.
 
Morba said:
I think he should just be ignored by every one tbh. His pathetic argument seems to always start with "enlighten me" as if he knows people cannot answer.
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Well you didn't mention anything about why electric cars are now wonderful? I'm all dissapointed... :(
 
xMarkie said:
Well you didn't mention anything about why electric cars are now wonderful? I'm all dissapointed... :(
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You've been told many times why certain things are good yet you don't listen. Your above post shows it again.

Just another GD troll.
 
xMarkie said:
Well you didn't mention anything about why electric cars are now wonderful? I'm all dissapointed... :(
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I wouldn't say they're wonderful, but that the technology is perfectly adequate now because the mileage they do is well over the average commute, and if more people used them the better off we'd be.

A car doesn't need to be able to do 500+miles to the tank (or charge) to be useful.
 
xMarkie said:
It is no good starting a company offering trips to the moon if you got $1.4bn in your pocket and calling this any sort of advancement.
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You do know how the Industrial Revolution started, don't you? The one that changed every single thing about how we lived? Oh that's right, private companies.
 
platypus said:
I wouldn't say they're wonderful, but that the technology is perfectly adequate now because the mileage they do is well over the average commute, and if more people used them the better off we'd be.

A car doesn't need to be able to do 500+miles to the tank (or charge) to be useful.
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Agreed. I'm not looking for a car that will do 500+ miles per tank/charge (would be nice though) - I'm simply looking for something better to replace my german gas guzzler.
A guaranteed range of 100 miles (normal roads & motorways) would be fine for me.
I can't afford £25k on a car I will use 3-4 times a week.
Nowhere I currently go has a charging point - I'm not expecting free electricity just somewhere to pay and charge so I can make it home.

I imagine these are common things which prohibit others making the switch and its a vicious circle - until more people demand electric cars the price will remain inflated - unless electric car ownership increases there won't be a justification for more charging points.
 
xMarkie said:
I imagine these are common things which prohibit others making the switch and its a vicious circle - until more people demand electric cars the price will remain inflated - unless electric car ownership increases there won't be a justification for more charging points.
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No, fair point that.

Whats this? Agreement in GD?!
 
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