I wasn't really talking about us, but them. Life appeared almost instantly when the conditions were there, so it's not just plausible, but likely, that life isn't a unique thing. Actually, if science has taught us anything, it's that nothing about us is really special. Let's get over our arrogant dogma and make things happen.
listen to what you're saying... What do you think a civilization 10000 years older than ours is like? 100,000? a BILLION?! We would have ABSOLUTELY no idea what they're like. Most likely, they're too busy crating their own universes to colonize our puny little planet.
I recently filled out a form to get a guarantee on my new speakers. One of the marketing questions asked: "How many times have you downloaded music from the internet?(check one): -Never -1 time -2-5 times -More than 5 times"
Uuuh..
All right! We need some BIG damn animals back to make life more interesting. How about the saber-tooth tiger and the cave bear. This would take big-game hunting to a whole other level!
well, you know that two giant spinning wheels have a substantial metric ton weight. How many million dollars a pound does it cost to put things into space?
Oh, c'mon! All this "they'll die from radiation exposure", "they can't stand up when they touch down", "they'll kill each other because of space madness", "space food doesn't taste so good" is all redundant nonsense. They're minor obstacles that can easily be overcome with a little ingenuity and hard work. If I, for one, was on the team to make it happen, these thing would be just problems, work, but not impossibilities.
Quite a lot?
7 in the Challenger crash
3 in the Apollo fire
3 in the Souyuz accident
statistically, space flight is quite safe
of course, the reason airliner flight is safe, is because any fool can't go in and fly one..
Well, I haven't seen the site yet either, but let's not forget the kind of firepower you need just to get into suborbit. Escape velocity from Earth is 11,8 km/s and you need at least half that speed to get anywhere near space. Accelerating a guy to mach 6 is serious business, and it's not just the one person- you also need some sort of life support so he doesn't get grilled by friction, doesn't suffocat, doesn't die from decompression, and so on. This isn't exactly a project you can build in your back-yard...
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This will go great with my Palm III tricorder simulator! How long till the Klingon version arrives?
I wasn't really talking about us, but them. Life appeared almost instantly when the conditions were there, so it's not just plausible, but likely, that life isn't a unique thing. Actually, if science has taught us anything, it's that nothing about us is really special. Let's get over our arrogant dogma and make things happen.
listen to what you're saying... What do you think a civilization 10000 years older than ours is like? 100,000? a BILLION?! We would have ABSOLUTELY no idea what they're like. Most likely, they're too busy crating their own universes to colonize our puny little planet.
I recently filled out a form to get a guarantee on my new speakers. One of the marketing questions asked: "How many times have you downloaded music from the internet?(check one): -Never -1 time -2-5 times -More than 5 times" Uuuh..
All right! We need some BIG damn animals back to make life more interesting. How about the saber-tooth tiger and the cave bear. This would take big-game hunting to a whole other level!
Well, hey: we could just genetically engineer them to taste good while we're at it.
Hey, sign me up for martian language lessons!
well, you know that two giant spinning wheels have a substantial metric ton weight. How many million dollars a pound does it cost to put things into space?
Oh, c'mon! All this "they'll die from radiation exposure", "they can't stand up when they touch down", "they'll kill each other because of space madness", "space food doesn't taste so good" is all redundant nonsense. They're minor obstacles that can easily be overcome with a little ingenuity and hard work. If I, for one, was on the team to make it happen, these thing would be just problems, work, but not impossibilities.
Sure, maybe it is dangerous, but a 99.5% survival rate has to be enough not to call it idiocy.
Quite a lot? 7 in the Challenger crash 3 in the Apollo fire 3 in the Souyuz accident statistically, space flight is quite safe of course, the reason airliner flight is safe, is because any fool can't go in and fly one..
Well, I haven't seen the site yet either, but let's not forget the kind of firepower you need just to get into suborbit. Escape velocity from Earth is 11,8 km/s and you need at least half that speed to get anywhere near space. Accelerating a guy to mach 6 is serious business, and it's not just the one person- you also need some sort of life support so he doesn't get grilled by friction, doesn't suffocat, doesn't die from decompression, and so on. This isn't exactly a project you can build in your back-yard...