Do you think you'll see human mars landing in our life time?

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: gigapet

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: gigapet
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So, you admit to having no idea what I'm saying then?

Simply put: If we stop spending money on programs to go to the moon and mars, no politician is going to give more to the poor. We already defecit spend, so it's not like suddenly money in the budget will be freed up, and even if it was, the people who you free up have no skills appropriate for the job you seem to want to prioritize, nor are they likely to be interested in it. All you do is make unemployed rocket scientists.

how about simply redistribute the monies to public schools. That alone would do wonders for this country.

You must realize that there's a huge amount of bureaucracy in the school system pissing away a lot of their allotted funds as well. Our government in general is much too large and is wasting billions of dollars simply shuffling papers around.

 

[BW86]

Probably. 50 years is a long time.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
By the time space travel on the scale that would save humanity would even become feasible, chances are, we will all already be dead from disease, overpopulation, pollution, war, etc. etc. I don't think we'll see a mars landing in 50 years, maybe in our lifetime, and even then, it probably won't accomplish much. All that will happen is, yay, we're on mars now. It's red. It took almost a year to go there and another year to come back. Let's spend billions of dollars on something else now.

With nuclear propulsion, it'd take <3 months.

I think quantum entanglement could be a big help as far as that goes. If it works the way I get the impression it does, anyway.

I assume you're joking.

😀

Nope

 

[So]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog


Nope

wow, Good read. I'll buy it 100% when I actually see a working (earth bound) prototype. ATM, of course, 'conventional' Nuclear Rockets could do a fine job.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: nakedfrog


Nope

wow, Good read. I'll buy it 100% when I actually see a working (earth bound) prototype. ATM, of course, 'conventional' Nuclear Rockets could do a fine job.

Yeah, I'm a little skeptical, but if they can get it working, it would be fantastic. It's a little weird to wrap my mind around, but Einstein himself didn't seem to keen on it either 😛
There's obviously a huge amount of research yet to be done in quantum physics.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: nakedfrog


Nope

wow, Good read. I'll buy it 100% when I actually see a working (earth bound) prototype. ATM, of course, 'conventional' Nuclear Rockets could do a fine job.

Yeah, I'm a little skeptical, but if they can get it working, it would be fantastic. It's a little weird to wrap my mind around, but Einstein himself didn't seem to keen on it either 😛
There's obviously a huge amount of research yet to be done in quantum physics.

:beer:

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: Vertimus

Originally posted by: umbrella39
Giga, what part of our Sun is burning up its fuel and expanding which in turn pushes further and further away the distance that habitable life can exist? This is a must. Mars is just the first stepping stone. Granted, it won't happen for many, many years but it will happen. If we do nothing, we all lose. We need to spend money on ways to travel faster and ways to keep the human body from degrading in zero gravity. Until then, Mars is a pipe dream.

Wow. the dumbest argument I've heard. Given how many years it takes for that to happen, we might as well colonize the entire galaxy by then.

I strongly support colonizing mars, but it should have NOTHING to do with whether the sun is blowing up or not.

You are clueless then. Thanks for freely admitting it in public. Do you have ANY idea how long it would take to terraform mars once we GET there? :roll:

As the Sun expands further we would have to leave that rock, too. The process would continue. So we should just accept our inevitable fate then! Got it. No thanks. You stay here, your kind is already extinct AFAIAC. There are also those pesky little rocks hurling through space that hit our planet on the order of 20X more than they do mars due to our mass and gravity.

 

[Sunbird]

no umbrella, you and your giant ball of expanding gas is the stinky annoying thing...

As to OP, I expect Martians to land on our planet during my lifetime, yes 🙂