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re: Space Travel and the Future
Posted on 5/20/16 at 7:55 am to Tempratt
Posted on 5/20/16 at 7:55 am to Tempratt
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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.
Musk >>>>>>>> Russians
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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.
Stir welding is going to change fabrication capabilities for soooooo many industries, and that's before we even get into the additional impact of 3-D printing.
Think of stir welding as a spinning bit that generates high heat and smashes too plates together in a way that actually binds the plates and their material properties. Instead of joining them through a weld (always weaker than the original plate strengths), you essentially merge the two plates to create essentially seamless joints.
The kind of runs you can now make that you can never have with traditional welding are incredible.
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Posted on 5/20/16 at 10:09 am to Gaston
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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.
What about Astral-Projection? Are we working on that? I always liked the idea of Astral-Projection, but, the rocket work seems cool, too.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 10:23 am to Tempratt
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Posted on 5/21/16 at 10:31 am to Tempratt
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interstellar travel.
distances are the biggest obstacle... it's hard for the brain to even understand just how far some of even the closer habitable places in the universe are...
and landing.... with no gravity, landing a craft on another planet is quite a challenge....
Posted on 5/21/16 at 11:25 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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Posted on 5/21/16 at 11:28 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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Many scientists believe that within hours of becoming self aware the AI will be smarter than all of human existence combined. Basically AI will become Go
Impossible to happen.
LINK
Posted on 5/21/16 at 11:42 am to chRxis
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distances are the biggest obstacle... it's hard for the brain to even understand just how far some of even the closer habitable places in the universe are...
It's not hard, it's truly impossible. This is just the scale of our solar system if the sun were the size of a soccer ball: LINK
Now here's the crazy thing, on that same scale Alpha Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System, would be the distance between New York and LA. And that's the closest. We can not mentally fathom the distance of our closest star nevertheless the galaxy, and certainly not our universe.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 12:08 pm to OMLandshark
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We can not mentally fathom the distance of our closest star nevertheless the galaxy, and certainly not our universe.
exactly... it would take generations of the same space traveler to get to one of the closest stars/planets... like great-great-grandsons and shite
Posted on 5/21/16 at 12:27 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.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 12:33 pm to Tempratt
If NASA hadn't farted around with the space shuttle program, we'd be a lot further along by now.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 12:35 pm to boxcarbarney
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If NASA hadn't farted around with the space shuttle program, we'd be a lot further along by now.
That's not really NASA's fault, more the government and tax payers.
It's embarrassing as frick we stepped foot on the moon nearly 50 years ago and still don't have a Moon Base.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 12:42 pm to OMLandshark
They need to stop dicking around with their robots and send some men up
Posted on 5/21/16 at 1:12 pm to OMLandshark
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That's not really NASA's fault, more the government and tax payers.
It's embarrassing as frick we stepped foot on the moon nearly 50 years ago and still don't have a Moon Base
When someone wants to progress further we constantly hear shite like "we spend all this money and nothing comes from it." Or maybe "we should spend that money on the ghetto blah blah blah."
Posted on 5/21/16 at 1:28 pm to Tempratt
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When someone wants to progress further we constantly hear shite like "we spend all this money and nothing comes from it." Or maybe "we should spend that money on the ghetto blah blah blah."
The most bullshite argument of all is "Oh, well we've got too many problems to deal with this. Once we deal with all of our problems, then we can worry about space." OK, name me a time in human history that didn't have problems? I'll tell you: never, and we will never not have problems. I think Kennedy's promise to put a man in 10 years on the Moon in the 60s was a far more daunting task of what our current technology can provide. All we are doing is mortgaging our future but continuing to put this off.
And we can't stay on this planet forever. We will overpopulate (and soon I might add) and we will need to find another place to call home.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 2:22 pm to SFCATiger
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The earth will be unhabitable in 200 years.
That is what will propel serious space travel.
Until good old Earth is totally mined out it's *enormously* easier to stay at home.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 2:59 pm to PatDyesPants
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Unfortunately for us, NASA doesn't really have anything dramatic from an exploration standpoint planned for decades beyond the upcoming Jupiter probe.
Dude we are sending men to mars in like 10 yrs. we are building the rockets now.
Im so proud. My oldest son is working on the project
This post was edited on 5/21/16 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:32 pm to 1234567k
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Dude we are sending men to mars in like 10 yrs. we are building the rockets now.
Im so proud. My oldest son is working on the project
I respect your enthusiasm, but no.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:37 pm to foshizzle
We goin bro.
Book mark it !
Book mark it !
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:40 pm to 1234567k
Boeing building the rockets now
The first mission will be a non manned test run to the moon
The second run will be un manned to mars
Third run will be manned to mars
The first mission will be a non manned test run to the moon
The second run will be un manned to mars
Third run will be manned to mars
Posted on 5/21/16 at 3:40 pm to Tempratt
Have you seen how many stupid/ignorant people there are just in America? I'm surprised we have made it this far. We have too much dead weight. I think a rock will come down and destroy us before we get the chance to leave.
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