AgentR11 wrote:I've always wondered about people who insist on telling the world who is on their ignore list. I'd never disclose such a thing, but that's just me.
AgentR11 wrote:I've always wondered about people who insist on telling the world who is on their ignore list. I'd never disclose such a thing, but that's just me.
SeaGypsy wrote:Clif, strictly speaking, it's not even a theory, given that no serious theorist has solutions to a few key problems- long term living in zero gravity or adequate artificial gravity in a travelling vehicle, radiation illnesses & the biggies- meaningful speed in light years terms & communications between colonies light years apart. The optimists always find a way to not deal with the holes in their beloved theory, maybe the same psychology as deadset doomers won't deal with holes there.
SeaGypsy wrote:Clif, strictly speaking, it's not even a theory, given that no serious theorist has solutions to a few key problems- long term living in zero gravity or adequate artificial gravity in a travelling vehicle, radiation illnesses & the biggies- meaningful speed in light years terms & communications between colonies light years apart. The optimists always find a way to not deal with the holes in their beloved theory, maybe the same psychology as deadset doomers won't deal with holes there.
vtsnowedin wrote:Ahh!! but today's theories and dumb ideas are sometimes tomorrow's realities.
In 1865 Jules Vern theorized that men could reach the moon fired from a 900 foot long cannon built in Florida shooting a capsule built out of Aluminum holding three men. All this when human flight was still limited to hot air balloons. A hundred years later we launched three men to the moon in a space craft built primarily out of aluminum atop a rocket 363 feet tall with the portion that orbited the moon weighing 100,000 lbs and twelve feet ten inches in diameter. They even landed in the Pacific where Vern had predicted they would.
We have to dream before we can do and not having all the solutions to the whole problem shouldn't keep us from contemplating the what ifs that would arise if those solutions are eventually found.
"Kirk to engine room. Scotty give me warp seven" ..
But Capin I'm givin it all she's got"
You do realize there is a Klingon warship bearing down on us and our shields are down?
warp eight coming right up Cappin!!
Ahh!! but today's theories and dumb ideas are sometimes tomorrow's realities.
In 1865 Jules Vern theorized that men could reach the moon fired from a 900 foot long cannon built in Florida shooting a capsule built out of Aluminum holding three men. All this when human flight was still limited to hot air balloons. A hundred years later we launched three men to the moon in a space craft built primarily out of aluminum atop a rocket 363 feet tall with the portion that orbited the moon weighing 100,000 lbs and twelve feet ten inches in diameter. They even landed in the Pacific where Vern had predicted they would.
We have to dream before we can do and not having all the solutions to the whole problem shouldn't keep us from contemplating the what ifs that would arise if those solutions are eventually found.
"Kirk to engine room. Scotty give me warp seven" ..
But Capin I'm givin it all she's got"
You do realize there is a Klingon warship bearing down on us and our shields are down?
warp eight coming right up Cappin!!
pstarr wrote:Timo, we have yet to figure out how to terraform the deep oceans here on earth, even Antarctic and Empty Quarter (in Saudi Arabia) in spite of the assumed vast wealth in those places. Where/how would we start on Mars?
Lore wrote:Logic says the poor people of the planet Earth will not be going anywhere. Let alone someplace less hospitable then the one we are making here.
Return to Environment, Weather & Climate
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 8 guests