aparch
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Good. No reason to make the moon a graveyard on purpose.
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Space exploration: Where do we go from here?
- Thread starter joecct
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Good. No reason to make the moon a graveyard on purpose.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
The push to private companies will be accompanied by all the theft, waste, fraud, and corruption inescapably associated with private enterprise.
I'm fine with opening space to commerce, but don't send NASA staff on these missions. Have the companies murder their own, and hold them accountable. Progress will come, but let the blood be privatized.
I'm fine with opening space to commerce, but don't send NASA staff on these missions. Have the companies murder their own, and hold them accountable. Progress will come, but let the blood be privatized.
MichVandal
Well-known member
Given how hard it is, I certainly would not want to ride the X ship.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Elon: We could get off the ground on our 32nd try
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
nope.
I sometimes look at galaxies and think of toilets. The water atoms being stars. Cities are clusters. CSAs are superclusters. Earth is the observable universe. Even that doesn't really get the scope right.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
MichVandal
Well-known member
We just don’t grasp the whole gravity of the situation.
MichVandal
Well-known member
To put some perspective, it takes 225,000,000 years for our solar system to orbit the Milky Way. Meaning it’s gone around almost 18 times. Humans have been here for ~200,000 years, or under 1/10 of an orbit. We’ve barely been here.
Most of these galaxy's we are seeing generated that light billions of years before the sun existed. Probably billions of years before the super nova that made all of the atoms that make everything we see were fused together.
In ~4.5 Billion years, Andromeda will collide with the Milky Way. We won’t see it because the sun will burn up the earth as it dies in 3-5B years. Let alone there will be a handful of extinction events as we orbit the galaxy.
Given how we perceive time, it’s hard to fathom we’ve only been here for ~0.005% of the time this planet has existed.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
MichVandal
Well-known member
I'm an optimist. We'll see it from somewhere else.
Maybe. But time and evolution will drastically change humans over 2B years.
At least we would need a “Wally” kind of space craft to get to another place to live. It will take many generations of humans to get anywhere, given we can’t come close to traveling at the speed of light. The ultimate Noah’s Ark.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
As you say, we will be vastly different. We may not need a ship. We may not even need to "go" anywhere. Assuming we can become unstuck in time the way we are in space, we may just differently when. We may already have.
MichVandal
Well-known member
Not sure how we prevent the sun from running out of hydrogen, and then expanding in size to envelop the earth.
Or how to violate known physics.