Hyperdrive and Space Propulsion

Interested reader writes "MSNBC has an article covering the recent Space Technology and Applications Forum in New Mexico, which included a frontier physics session on hyperdrive, wormholes, and other blue sky ideas. The idea is a revival of NASA's long-dead (and heavily criticized) Advanced Propulsion Project."

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unlikely

[wwmedia]

heck we cant even return to the moon!

and they are thinking of other stars :)

one step at a time people (look at the chineese at the rate they are going they will get to the moon faster that the US, im sure by 2020 the chineese will have the biggest economy in the world while the US fight of some war in YET ANOTHER MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY)

anyways thats my rant [itll probably be modded down out of existence...]

Humanity must be IMPROVED

[benzapp]

How does population control cheapen life? We selectively breed all sorts of animals, much to their own benefit. We have many animals that are far stronger and healthy than the average human on this planet.

It is technology and unrestricted population growth that cheapens life. Where once only the most fit survived, now the most depraved and monsterous get by due to the genius of higher forms of humans. Billions are alive only due to the generosity of a few.

How are billions of people living in barracks style housing projects not cheapened? When we look at the beauty and vigor of more healthy civilizations of the past, are these people not total contradistinctions of say, Classical Athens? Will we have timeless statues of these creatures? And what of the lowest forms? Are we to imprison 1/4 of our population, when we could have prevented them from ever being born?

Eugenics is the safest, most sane, AND humane way to deal with the desires of human nature, the power of our technology, and the constraints of our world.

Only the best should survive, and the only way to do that is to arbitrarily set standards of physical fitness; both psychological and aesthetic. Only the intelligent and beautiful should be allowed to reproduce. Criminals, the mentally deficient, the insane, and the ugly should all be sterilized.