AngryAmish
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:22 PM
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On the imperative of leaving earth |
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Many more people that are way smarter than I have commented that for the human race to survive we must leave the earth. I happen to agree with that assessment.
That said, I think putting stuff on top of a rocket and shooting it into orbit is a crazy way to move people to orbit and beyond. Rockets have a few things going for them - including relatively smooth acceleration that don't squish delicate creatures such as ourselves. Teleportation and the like just don't and won't work - complexity problem.
What would I start doing if I were king?
1. Robots will do the exploring. Mine asteroids and the moon (robotically). Solar sails seem fuel efficient.
2. Send out a lot of robots to take pictures and mass spectrography of other worlds in nearby solar systems.
Anyway, the real exploration is not for our lifetimes. But shooting a lot of probes to other solar systems can be done. This should be done.
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UndertheOcean
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:23 PM
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1. nah , we don't deserve to survive. |
NoNothing
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:27 PM
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2. Speak for yourself, please |
UndertheOcean
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:30 PM
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4. I will speak for whomever I damn want , got it ? |
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If you don't like it you can go pound sand.
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Tue Aug-10-10 06:30 PM
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17. I agree he isn't worth surviving, you are hang in there though |
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:) Some people I guess really don't like themselves and don't want to make it.
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:40 PM
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8. I've always loved the staggering hypocrisy of these sorts of statements. (nt) |
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:42 PM
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9. hypocrisy? , I don't get it , explain ? |
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Tue Aug-10-10 05:31 PM
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13. Then why don't you go kill yourself? |
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:28 PM
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3. Alpha Centuri is about 85 years away with next-generation technology |
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Edited on Tue Aug-10-10 04:31 PM by tridim
With current technology it would take almost 20,000 years. Plus we don't even know if it has planets, let alone habitable planets.
Otherwise I agree, robotic probes everywhere in our solar system, especially the gas giant moons.
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:33 PM
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5. I think that humans may have no say in the matter. We will become extinct |
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due to having made this planet uninhabitable for ourselves. We will perish.
The planet will replenish and survive...without the human race.
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:35 PM
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6. Like cosmic cockroaches, we've fouled this nest, and must find another... |
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:37 PM
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We will survive here. Heck, stone age people lived. live in the artic. But we move on...it is what we do.
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:42 PM
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10. We'll build an artificial earth before we find another one in the wild. nt |
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Tue Aug-10-10 04:48 PM
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11. We, as a species are too immature and violent to be spreading ourselves around. |
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We need to learn to get along with ourselves and our environment. Right now we are doing a good job of destroying both.
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Tue Aug-10-10 05:49 PM
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16. I wonder if we'll destroy a 20-40 million year survival record? |
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Edited on Tue Aug-10-10 05:50 PM by Cetacea
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Tue Aug-10-10 05:06 PM
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12. The empire is already in decline. The days of space exploration are over for good. |
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Peak oil, peak water, peak rare earth elements for exotic electronics like cell phones and computers. Industrial civilization made possible only by fossil fuels was a brief blip on the radar screen of history. It was a one-shot affair and we've shot our wad. It's all down hill from here, so we are permanently bound to Earth. like it or not.
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Tue Aug-10-10 05:32 PM
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14. The see the misathropes have arrived. |
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Tue Aug-10-10 05:39 PM
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15. All curiously alive, despite being evangelical human extinctionists.. (nt) |
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