Voyager 2 gone for good?
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I fear that before any successful sustainable colonies off-world can be created, civilisation will collapse in on itself as situations such as this cease to be comedy but become reality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw
Eric Mc said:
Mr Pointy said:
It isn't - it's accurate. Everything out there is inhospitable to our bodies. We can't stand the radiation. Lack of gravity ruins our bones & eyesight. We can't carry enough fuel to get off Mars if we do land there. We die before we've travelled more than 80 years. The lunar dust is horrendously abrasive & destroys our lungs.
We're adapted to live in a temperate environment with a protective atmosphere & magnetic shield.
There's no point going to the Moon or Mars as there's nothing there - we can't expand our colonies to live there freely without protective suits.
That's without Putin lobbing nukes or the certainty of an extinction-level asteroid event. You can't argue with statistics - an asteriod is coming for us.
Anyway, that's all wildy off topic. Let's hope Voyager calls home soon.
We ARE going back to the moon - whether you think it's a good idea or not. And if governments don't fund it - someone else will. THAT is what I was referring to. There are at least three manned lunar programmes in various states of progress at the moment.We're adapted to live in a temperate environment with a protective atmosphere & magnetic shield.
There's no point going to the Moon or Mars as there's nothing there - we can't expand our colonies to live there freely without protective suits.
That's without Putin lobbing nukes or the certainty of an extinction-level asteroid event. You can't argue with statistics - an asteriod is coming for us.
Anyway, that's all wildy off topic. Let's hope Voyager calls home soon.
Mr Pointy said:
There's no point going to the Moon or Mars as there's nothing there - we can't expand our colonies to live there freely without protective suits.
Much like the summit of Everest or the South Pole, but people go there.We've assumed for decades that there are alien civilisations out there zooming about the galaxy in spaceships - but maybe there aren't, because they couldn't be arsed...!
Eric Mc said:
Mr Pointy said:
But what for? We can't even put up a commonly-agreed replacement for the space station & that's just a few miles overhead. That costs peanuts compared to a base on the Moon.
Who cares. Some people are doing it anyway. Let's sit back and enjoy the adventure.Humankind needs to push on and out.
lrdisco said:
Eric Mc said:
Mr Pointy said:
But what for? We can't even put up a commonly-agreed replacement for the space station & that's just a few miles overhead. That costs peanuts compared to a base on the Moon.
Who cares. Some people are doing it anyway. Let's sit back and enjoy the adventure.Humankind needs to push on and out.
louiechevy said:
I watched a documentary a few years ago about various companies plans to exploit the moons resources and one of them basically said we choose not to go to the moon because its hard but because its profitable.
Makes perfect sense. Once the national pride of exploration/achievement is over, it has to make financial sense because then corporations take over.
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