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Humans Will Sail To The Stars

Posted by timothy on from the we'll-do-like-the-icelanders-do dept.

oddsheep points to an "article on BBC news from the AAAS Expo in Boston about how researchers are discussing spreading the human race across the galaxy in solar sailing ships. Not a new idea of course but the social implications discussed are great: what the hell do the volunteer colonists (and their descendants) do for the hundreds of years it would take to get anywhere? Cue "Are we nearly there yet?" from the back seats ad infinitum and the longest game of 'I Spy' in history..."

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  1. I need to pee! by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hopefully, there will be a way to accomodate this one, at least. :)

  2. Dreamers and reality by October_30th · · Score: 0, Troll
    Sigh.

    Solar sails and space elevators intrigue certain kind people. Unfortunately these people are most of the time dreamers with no capability in scientific reasoning. They get excited about the "romantic" idea of "sailing" to the stars or building a "bean stalk" to the orbit. Pretty childish.

    Face it. Until the use of anti-gravity is discovered the chemical propulsion to orbit and ion/nuclear drives beyond that are the only practical means of space travel.

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    The owls are not what they seem
    1. Re:Dreamers and reality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      When you can use it to kill Muslims the technology will be funded.

  3. Better yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here's a more in-depth overview here: here

  4. Of course, what will really happen by LadyLucky · · Score: 1, Troll
    Is that when they land, some nutter a few centuries on will proclaim them the "holy founders" or "the creators" or something, and everyone will believe the nutter, and yet-another-dumbassed-religion will be formed.

    Hooray.

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  5. Fag-gas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I would like to point out that "homokaasu" is Finnish and means "fag-gas" (homo=fag, kaasu=gas). Its related to a story about homosexuality inducing gas being secretly leaked into every tech-student flat in Finland by the local socialist government.

    And yes, Linus used to live in a student flat.

  6. Re:what they do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It would be really great if we could send all the niggers and spics into deep space.