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Space Travel and the Future
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:09 pm
Do you ever think the future and where we'll be in 50, 100, 400, 1000 years?
It's fun to look at Star Trek or Star Wars and think about interstellar travel.
I have at admit that the thought of having to rely on the Russians for anything (taking supplies, food, booze, etc) to the ISS is unsettling. With the way things are headed, we'd best figure something fast.
It's fun to look at Star Trek or Star Wars and think about interstellar travel.
I have at admit that the thought of having to rely on the Russians for anything (taking supplies, food, booze, etc) to the ISS is unsettling. With the way things are headed, we'd best figure something fast.
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:19 pm to Tempratt
We're building insanely cool rockets right now. Full-on friction stir 'welded' crafts. On the space shuttle we had straight sections of the LH2 tanks that way for the heavy lift version, but the new rockets will be 100%. The tooling it took to crank these out is UNREAL. They had some setbacks in the alignment of the largest one, but they're good now. Adding sections to the solids as well. The US will be able to crank out the finest rockets this planet has ever seen for a long time. We'll be good...for rockets anyway. Interstellar travel, yea not this century.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:19 pm to Tempratt
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Do you ever think the future and where we'll be in 50, 100, 400, 1000 years?
With regards to space, yes. I wish I could be alive to see the future discoveries.
Unfortunately for us, NASA doesn't really have anything dramatic from an exploration standpoint planned for decades beyond the upcoming Jupiter probe.
I want to see us land something on Europa and Enceladus.
This post was edited on 5/19/16 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:29 pm to Tempratt
Space travel is boring.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:29 pm to Tempratt
I think it's cool and all, but why go there? It would be boring and probably get stuck with weird arse people.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:35 pm to Tempratt
Almost kinda semi-relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism is a great place for stuff about the past's vision of the future.
1950s
"The family helicopter of the future" (1935). The 1930s saw quite a bit of interest in personal aviation devices. Gore Vidal's father spent years working on the idea, and IIRC Henry Ford was involved to some degree.
"Moscow in the 23rd Century" (Russian postcard c. 1914)
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1950s
"The family helicopter of the future" (1935). The 1930s saw quite a bit of interest in personal aviation devices. Gore Vidal's father spent years working on the idea, and IIRC Henry Ford was involved to some degree.
"Moscow in the 23rd Century" (Russian postcard c. 1914)
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:50 pm to Tempratt
Think about it. 1860s, horse and buggy. Fast forward a hundred years to the 1960s, we're landing on the moon and shite.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:51 pm to Tempratt
Elon Musk will lead us to the promised land.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:56 pm to chicano12
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we're landing on the moon and shite.
nb4 it was faked.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:57 pm to Tempratt
The earth will be unhabitable in 200 years.
This post was edited on 5/19/16 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:00 pm to SFCATiger
That is always my response to these threads. I think it's OMLandshark who posts about elevators to space and singularity, yet kind of understands basic things like energy limits, and I'm trying to explain that we will be lucky to have enough energy to run industrial civilization in a couple decades.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:12 pm to Tempratt
You smoking too much weed today baw.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:14 pm to Gaston
Do you work out at Michoud? You seem to have some knowledge (specifically about the alignment issues), that I wouldn't expect most to know.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:17 pm to foshizzle
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we're landing on the moon and shite.
nb4 it was faked.
Well, it was so, there's that
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:22 pm to Tempratt
I doubt that space travel will ever be like it is on Star Trek. Ever. The distances are just too large. There'd need to be a way to travel from place to place instantaneously. By bending space or maybe wormholes. Kinda like warp drive, but without a "spaceship".
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:27 pm to Tempratt
The distance to other stars is going to make interstellar space travel a very difficult problem to overcome. I don't think my grandchildren will even live to see that, but I hope they do.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:28 pm to BiggerBear
All we need is the warp drive.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:29 pm to Bunk Moreland
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I'm trying to explain that we will be lucky to have enough energy to run industrial civilization in a couple decades.
Wut
Are we going to forget how to build nuclear plants in a few decades? Just one example.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:38 pm to Bunk Moreland
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'm trying to explain that we will be lucky to have enough energy to run industrial civilization in a couple decades.
Do you think we're going to rely on the same energy sources for our entire existence?
Technological advancement includes energy advances also.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:42 pm to rintintin
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Technological advancement includes energy advances also.
Who here remembers that peak oil was supposed to happen decades ago?
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