Best thing to do would be to launch cargo into orbit with unmanned systems. If these unmanned systems can become partly reusable, good. Then to ship people up and down, build a small fully reusable spaceplane where they only take people and perhaps a little cargo (like for equipment they need). This way you don't have to launch one big shuttle which, no matter how cool I think it is, would cost too much.
So if the universe is 13.7 billion years plus minus 200 million years, the it can be anything from 13.9 to 13.5 billion years. Since that planet was 13 billion years, it formed rather early in the life of the universe, probably during the second generation of stars. Or am I just out there now?
They plan to have a man in space by the end of this year. We already know they have the capability for such missions since they've had some unmanned spacecrafts in orbit that were safely returned to earth. I believe they can do that. However, the step from that, to spaceshuttles, spacestations and lunar bases is a little bigger. They can do that, too, but I wouldn't be surprised if it takes longer than their timetable.
And to go to Mars, that's obviously just asking for trouble... When will we ever get interstellar spacetravel when we have such huge problems sending unmanned crafts around our own solar system, I wonder...
True, but I think some competition is only good. I do agree that we should be able to work together. But most people doesn't think like that, and never will.
The Top Three List of Strange Calls I've Received:
3. An anonymous death threat. Not directed at me personally, but still it was coming to the family phone number. He informed me that he was "sharpening the knives" among other things.
2. Some chick who wanted me to repair a wheelchair, because that was obviously what I do. (It's not.)
1. Some guy calling from Tokyo and wanted to know if I was interested in the stock market and trading. (I live in Sweden, btw.)
The spammers are pouring in everywhere, deliberately causing damage, ruining it for everyone. Who would want to do something like that? What is going on in their small minds? As it turns out, not much.
While hi-tech will be a good thing, I think we need to help the 3rd world countries in other ways first. Unless we do that, the hi-tech stuff will fall apart and deteriorate unless we keep maintaining it. Why not help them build up their countries from the ground up? Make sure they have water, make sure they can grow food on their land, give them good schools and education... And add to this a truly free global market.
From now on there will always be human beings in space. For some missions, we're not needed, for some we are. Either way there will always be people going into space, living on other planets, exploring new worlds. I know there are great risks about going into space, but if I had the opportunity to go, either with the Soyuz or the Shuttle, I would not hesitate one second. If I die, then at least I've done something truly extraordinary before I go. People will be in space now and forever, simply because we want to. We can do it, and we want to. We want to see our Earth from above, to watch the sunset in the red athmosphere of Mars, to experience low gravity on our moon, and maybe one day look up from a planet in another solar system, to see its two suns in the sky...
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Best thing to do would be to launch cargo into orbit with unmanned systems. If these unmanned systems can become partly reusable, good. Then to ship people up and down, build a small fully reusable spaceplane where they only take people and perhaps a little cargo (like for equipment they need). This way you don't have to launch one big shuttle which, no matter how cool I think it is, would cost too much.
They should build a space escalator. Sure it takes two days, but eventually you'll get up there.
Seriously, I was screaming out loud as I read another rendition of that joke. I beg of thee, stop this madness :(
Dude, that's just mind boggling.
So if the universe is 13.7 billion years plus minus 200 million years, the it can be anything from 13.9 to 13.5 billion years. Since that planet was 13 billion years, it formed rather early in the life of the universe, probably during the second generation of stars. Or am I just out there now?
That's the Spirit!
Throw in something about 'reverse polarity', too then.
Surely you're not suggesting it's always the same date all over the world at the same time?
JA, I have been designated to trAHvelate you!
[afterwards]:
You've been trAHvelated. I'll be back.
They plan to have a man in space by the end of this year. We already know they have the capability for such missions since they've had some unmanned spacecrafts in orbit that were safely returned to earth. I believe they can do that. However, the step from that, to spaceshuttles, spacestations and lunar bases is a little bigger. They can do that, too, but I wouldn't be surprised if it takes longer than their timetable.
And to go to Mars, that's obviously just asking for trouble... When will we ever get interstellar spacetravel when we have such huge problems sending unmanned crafts around our own solar system, I wonder...
True, but I think some competition is only good. I do agree that we should be able to work together. But most people doesn't think like that, and never will.
3. An anonymous death threat. Not directed at me personally, but still it was coming to the family phone number. He informed me that he was "sharpening the knives" among other things.
2. Some chick who wanted me to repair a wheelchair, because that was obviously what I do. (It's not.)
1. Some guy calling from Tokyo and wanted to know if I was interested in the stock market and trading. (I live in Sweden, btw.)
The spammers are pouring in everywhere, deliberately causing damage, ruining it for everyone. Who would want to do something like that? What is going on in their small minds? As it turns out, not much.
While hi-tech will be a good thing, I think we need to help the 3rd world countries in other ways first. Unless we do that, the hi-tech stuff will fall apart and deteriorate unless we keep maintaining it. Why not help them build up their countries from the ground up? Make sure they have water, make sure they can grow food on their land, give them good schools and education... And add to this a truly free global market.
From now on there will always be human beings in space. For some missions, we're not needed, for some we are. Either way there will always be people going into space, living on other planets, exploring new worlds. I know there are great risks about going into space, but if I had the opportunity to go, either with the Soyuz or the Shuttle, I would not hesitate one second. If I die, then at least I've done something truly extraordinary before I go. People will be in space now and forever, simply because we want to. We can do it, and we want to. We want to see our Earth from above, to watch the sunset in the red athmosphere of Mars, to experience low gravity on our moon, and maybe one day look up from a planet in another solar system, to see its two suns in the sky...
Except of course in China, Northkorea and Cuba.
my mom could probably learn any system if only she had enough time to do so.
You can't patent that. Patents are for technical solutions! Damn it I'd rather live in a world without patents at all, than this kind of madness.