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Humanity Should Reach for the Stars
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TheMediator
I totally 100% agree with you. If we don't expand into space soon (relatively speaking, probably along the lines of 200 years), humanity will wipe itself out. Only with one common goal will people be able to live in peace with each other. Unforunately, people are too caught up in their own bull@#$% to look at the big picture.
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Queggy
I totally 100% agree with you. If we don't expand into space soon (relatively speaking, probably along the lines of 200 years), humanity will wipe itself out. Only with one common goal will people be able to live in peace with each other. Unforunately, people are too caught up in their own bull@#$% to look at the big picture.
Well, we only have to wait until April 5, 2063!
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Lecks
Meh, let's not become a virus, k?
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Queggy
I totally 100% agree with you. If we don't expand into space soon (relatively speaking, probably along the lines of 200 years), humanity will wipe itself out. Only with one common goal will people be able to live in peace with each other. Unforunately, people are too caught up in their own bull@#$% to look at the big picture.
Well, we only have to wait until April 5, 2063!
What happens April 5, 2063?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2063#2063
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MyTie
There was probably a time when humanity had discovered the ocean, but not discovered how to make boats or compasses. Two dudes were standing on the beach, and the conversation went like this:
Bert: Do you think there is anyone out there? You know, on the other side of all this water?
Gary: Probably. There are people who are over here, so there has to be people over there somewhere.
Bert: I think it is time we went exploring, because life is horrible over here, and the grass isn't very green.
Gary: You're right. We have muscles and stuff. There is no reason we should stay here. In fact, we are obligated to go.
Bert: Ok! Let's start swimming!
Bert and Gary were never heard from again.
I don't think that space exploration is a bad idea. We just need to figure out how to bend spacetime
before
we go. No small task.
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MyTie
Bending spacetime, dude. Timetravel. That's the only way to get to the stars. Unless you wanna spend millions of years in space.
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Hyperspacerebel
Bending spacetime, dude. Timetravel. That's the only way to get to the stars. Unless you wanna spend millions of years in space.
Suspended animation + Autopilot works too.
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MyTie
The materials are not the issue. It is the technology required for such a task. If such a venture is to be taken we as a whole must work as a united front to develop the required technology needed for interstellar travel, and for the colonization of worlds both like and unlike our own current stellar body.
seems like you had a "TL;DR" moment ther mytie i am not talking bert and gary... i am talking Christopher Columbus..or like the guy that figured out you could cross the Mediterranean.. or....damn running out of stuff.
you get me though right?
No. We aren't yet 'Christoper Columbus' level with the stars yet. We are Bert and Gary level. We will be Christoper Columbus level when we discover time travel.Suspended animation + Autopilot works too.In the millions of years of auto pilot, humanity will have discovered time travel, and beaten the first spacecraft there. I'm telling you: Spacetime.
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HiVolt
For sure the steps are laid out pretty clearly in my head:
1. moon base within 50-60 years probably a joint India/USA/EU venture or China/Russia venture
2. an actual self sustaining colony comes from this base by 2080-2100 and the colony is used as a jumping point to mars.
3. 2220-2300 (depending on how civil we all decide to be) the cold fusion and some form of wormhole/faster than light travel invented.
4. ?
5. profit
Edit: but I will be worm food by then so MEH EFF it
You forgot one key part of this, and that's to work out all the kinks with artificial gravity. We'd never be able to make a self-sustaining colony on the moon if we didn't figure out some way to give it Earth-like gravity first.
The effects of gravity on the human body are too great to be overlooked.
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Adamsm
I really don't think we should go to the stars. I mean, we screwed up Earth enough, let's not keep doing that; going from one world to the next just destroying it, using it up, and repeating.
I've always been of the opinion of Calvin and Hobbes: The only real proof of intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us. Seriously, I could see that; Earth is a rotten husk, the terraform on the Moon and Mars the same, and we get eradicated by a blockade while trying to leaving our solar system.
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