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re: Personally I think humans are wasting their time with planning human space travel
Posted on 12/12/18 at 3:56 pm to Snipe
Posted on 12/12/18 at 3:56 pm to Snipe
quote:every space movie and show has already solved this you generate gravity bu either the rotating deck, or you have a gravity generator thingamajig.
From Conception to birth in low gravity I don't know of any animal tests being done much less human research.
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Posted on 12/12/18 at 3:57 pm to litenin
quote:what would be benefit from out oceans? the vast majority of our ocean's are baron wastelands.
I've always thought that it may be more important to explore our oceans further since it seems like we could benefit more from it in the near term.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 3:59 pm to udtiger
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It's close and easily reachable if something goes wrong.
yea.....
Posted on 12/12/18 at 4:00 pm to Snipe
the odds of self destruction are far more likely than colonizing another planet. I say it never happens.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 4:01 pm to ccomeaux
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the odds of self destruction are far more likely than colonizing another planet. I say it never happens
I agree. A super volcano or something like that will kill off humans first
Posted on 12/12/18 at 4:01 pm to Loaner1231
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Locating and tracking all "planet killing" asteroids/comets seems to be more difficult than deflecting/destroying ones that have the potential to impact Earth.
Whatever works best. We just know that it can happen again.
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Skunk Works filed a patent earlier this year for a new type of fusion reactor. Apparently they have a new type of magnetic containment device that doesn't require near the amount of energy the Tokamak device needs for containment. If successful, humans would essentially "harnessed the power of the sun".
That is awesome.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 4:03 pm to Snipe
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space ports if you will.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 4:09 pm to lsu13lsu
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That is awesome.
What makes it even more awesome is the reactor is supposed to be much smaller than any of the predecessors. The current design is roughly the size of a semi-truck and is theorized to produce 100 MW of electricity; total game changer for deep space propulsion technology.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 4:12 pm to Snipe
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Just something I was thinking about while eating my lunch.
Christ I feel like an idiot... I usually am thinking about banging the HR lady at lunch
Posted on 12/12/18 at 5:47 pm to Snipe
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At this time at least
You can’t put it off and suddenly 100 years from now boom space travel.
To get to that point requires steady improvements and innovation by the current generations who have the dream of being the first. Progress comes slow
Posted on 12/12/18 at 6:30 pm to Snipe
I would like to see us explore more of the oceans.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 7:13 pm to Snipe
I really think these people that say they would take a one way trip to Mars mean well but would instantly regret it once it’s get real and they realize they won’t be coming back. I can see it turning into a cahotic panic stricken situation.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 7:16 pm to udtiger
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We should be busting arse to colonize the Moon.
Why? It sounds cool but when it costs thousands of dollars per kg to get anything there what is it we are trying to achieve? I love space exploration. Love it. But in 2018 with the advances in computers and robotics and the limitations and expense of current propulsion tech the only realistic position to take is that unmanned should be our focus and is where the true space exploration is being done.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 7:19 pm to lsu13lsu
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The most important thing for us in space is to figure out how to avoid an asteroid hit.
The next most important thing is for us to figure out how to harness the power of our sun efficiently or find a limitless clean energy source.
The next is to figure out how to control our climate/weather.
I think travelling to Mars / Moon etc is important too. It is primarily important to keep the excitement building so the research dollars keep flowing. But, it isn't as important as the above.
Agreed.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 12:45 pm to Loaner1231
quote:it would also be a game changer with energy here on earth.
What makes it even more awesome is the reactor is supposed to be much smaller than any of the predecessors. The current design is roughly the size of a semi-truck and is theorized to produce 100 MW of electricity; total game changer for deep space propulsion technology.
We just need Epstein to be born and make his fateful madian voyage testing out his Epstein drive.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 2:21 pm to CarRamrod
I could go into a lot of areas that are probably important to the future of space travel and humans being able to traverse safely from point a to b, but i think it all eventually boils down to something pretty simple: the tech needs to advance far enough to allow a power source that has a massive energy density.
The modular fusion improvements are a good step, but with a massive power source on a ship it could basically multitask as propulsion, power, etc. Another area that gets overlooked a lot when discussing space travel is cosmic radiation. Someone mentioned zero-G probably being bad on humans for extended amounts of time(even though eventually the engineering will just have ships designed with centrifuges to create artificial G) but any travel is gonna be exposed to large amounts of rads too. I would hope that with sufficient energy density in a craft, it could someday induce a large enough magnetic field to surround said ship and offer some protection.
Obviously some kind of paradigm shift in our current understanding of physics could drastically shift how we go about space travel, because as of right now space travel is gonna be a bitch and pretty much locked to our solar system only for manned missions. A work around for this, though, may be in current research with finding a way to successfully put a human in suspended animation and pull them out.
Should we focus on space travel? Yes. Just from a tech/engineering standpoint, the effort to advance space travel will bring a lot of innovations from multiple fields of study.
The modular fusion improvements are a good step, but with a massive power source on a ship it could basically multitask as propulsion, power, etc. Another area that gets overlooked a lot when discussing space travel is cosmic radiation. Someone mentioned zero-G probably being bad on humans for extended amounts of time(even though eventually the engineering will just have ships designed with centrifuges to create artificial G) but any travel is gonna be exposed to large amounts of rads too. I would hope that with sufficient energy density in a craft, it could someday induce a large enough magnetic field to surround said ship and offer some protection.
Obviously some kind of paradigm shift in our current understanding of physics could drastically shift how we go about space travel, because as of right now space travel is gonna be a bitch and pretty much locked to our solar system only for manned missions. A work around for this, though, may be in current research with finding a way to successfully put a human in suspended animation and pull them out.
Should we focus on space travel? Yes. Just from a tech/engineering standpoint, the effort to advance space travel will bring a lot of innovations from multiple fields of study.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 2:55 pm to Snipe
Glad to have your input, I was just about to start building my spaceship but thanks to you I realize it's pointless.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 3:11 pm to Snipe
None of us have a remote clue of the level of technology that we possess. Stop eating woodland shrooms for lunch.
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