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[SantaC]

And now in 2020, we still havent set our foot on another planet. (or moon for that matter) *Sad face*

That's 51 fucking years!

I really loved space as a kid (and I still do), and it pains me that I might not get to see another journey to visit another planet in my lifetime. There is so much mystery left to discover. Mars is definitely doable, but when will it happen? Someone tell NASA to wake up.

 

[jufonuk]

If they find oil on mars operation freedom eagle will happen.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

And now in 2020, we still havent set our foot on another planet. (or moon for that matter) *Sad face*

That's 51 fucking years!

I really loved space as a kid (and I still do), and it pains me that I might not get to see another journey to visit another planet in my lifetime. There is so much mystery left to discover. Mars is definitely doable, but when will it happen? Someone tell NASA to wake up.

Who cares about the moon or other planets! We have to make sure we use proper pronouns!

 

[Tesseract]

we're going back

 

[bender]

NASA has the will but not the funding. We aren't playing catch-up to Russia in the nuclear arms race like we were in that era. Priorities shift, unfortunately, and we can't romanticize that historic moment as the US being adventurers or explorers, it was about military application of science.

 

[Cunth]

suspicious

 

[SantaC]

What happened to the EM drive?

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Space is big and dangerous and has, until recent developments, been prohibitively expensive. Reusable rockets could be a breakthrough tho

 

[diffusionx]

Did we?

 

[Tesseract]

Did we?

 

[Richard Packer]

Rumor has it Stanley Kubrick's son is working on it right now.

 

[Great Hair]

A pocket calculator or even a USB-C charger has more computing power tan the best computers used to send astronauts to the moon

Your smartphone is millions of times more powerful that all of NASA's combined computing in 1969

You would be wrong in saying an iPhone could be used to guide 120,000,000 Apollo era spacecraft to the moon, all the same time.

www.zmescience.com

 

[EviLore]

SpaceX will get us there, not NASA.

 

[Birdo]

You beat Russia.

The US lost the incentive after that. It was too expensive to carry on.

 

[iconmaster]

The thing with other planets (and the moon) is: there's not much there for us. America was discovered and then quickly swarmed by Europeans for its land and resources. We went to the moon and brought back...rocks. What's the point?

Same for Mars, btw.

 

[bender]

The thing with other planets (and the moon) is: there's not much there for us. America was discovered and then quickly swarmed by Europeans for its land and resources. We went to the moon and brought back...rocks. What's the point?

Same for Mars, btw.

Eventually treating Earth like a Coney Island White Fish Boy will catch up to us and we'll need to relocate but that will not happen in our lifetime. We are also past due on a few global extinction events but those again will not happen in our lifetimes. Probably.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

First country to get space army (like starlink with lasers) will win earth.

So usa better hustle.

 

[Rentahamster]

Imagine if we had saved the $2 trillion cost of the ill advised Iraq War and gave it to NASA and space exploration grants for private companies instead.

To put that in perspective, 2 trillion freedom bucks is about 100 years worth of funding NASA at its current levels.

 

[timeflais]

Moon landings happened before.
Public vs private.
How do you militarize space when all it seems we can send out as of recent is satellites and rovers?
Logical thinking.
Pentagon to be audited for missing $Trillions on 9/11?

 

[bender]

First country to get space army (like starlink with lasers) will win earth.

So usa better hustle.

We already won.

 

[M.W.]

Focus on Uranus not the moon

 

[V4skunk]

What if there has been a secret space program and they have already been places?

 

[Tesseract]

What if there has been a secret space program and they have already been places?

 

[Shadowplay1979]

And now in 2020, we still havent set our foot on another planet. (or moon for that matter) *Sad face*

That's 51 fucking years!

I really loved space as a kid (and I still do), and it pains me that I might not get to see another journey to visit another planet in my lifetime. There is so much mystery left to discover. Mars is definitely doable, but when will it happen? Someone tell NASA to wake up.

The desire to explore is white colinization fantasies and racist thats why!



However if you simply click on another thread in this form youll see that we are getting very close to returning to the moon and getting to mars within years, not decade

SpaceX building Starship in Texas (live videos of construction)

in Boca Chica that is. This thing is going to do a flight test sometime next month. It is not the final product but they have been working out how to build it Live 🔴 If you have not been following the videos this stacking is super cool channels to watch...

www.neogaf.com

 

[bender]

What if there has been a secret space program and they have already been places?

 

[Shadowplay1979]

Imagine if we had saved the $2 trillion cost of the ill advised Iraq War and gave it to NASA and space exploration grants for private companies instead.

To put that in perspective, 2 trillion freedom bucks is about 100 years worth of funding NASA at its current levels.

Honestly with the red tape and mismanagement typical of government spending...wed prob have maybe an extra rover on mars by now.

Private has been the way to go.....better to take Nasas money and run with it instead of letting Nasa spend 4 million on an oil dipstick that has to be constructed by union workers over the course of a year.

 

[Halo is Back]

Space X has plans for Mars.

 

[hard_boiled]

Harold White left NASA to found(?) Limitless Space Institute

Harold G. White - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

LSI

Infinite Possibilities

www.limitlessspace.org

I assume he's working on something promising.

 

[John Day]

SpaceX will get us there, not NASA.

Yes, it seems it’s all about private enterprises and them securing permission to launch rockets and people into space today. The powers that be want to be convinced that it’s safe to do so, seems cause no country wants another accident launched from their soil.

i feel the technology is there. Just need to push. It’s whyI root for SpaceX and Musk, he has the money (or can secure it) to make it happenI think.

 

[asustitan]

In the 60s' the novelty of it and the space race drove them to the moon even though it was financially crippling.

The technology has only just started to make it economically viable today.
Tourism and reusability will drive it forward now.

How much would you be willing to spend for a trip around the moon? I can really see that becoming possible and not out of reach to the public now.

 

[John Day]

In the 60s' the novelty of it and the space race drove them to the moon even though it was financially crippling.

The technology has only just started to make it economically viable today.
Tourism and reusability will drive it forward now.

How much would you be willing to spend for a trip around the moon? I can really see that becoming possible and not out of reach to the public now.

I kid you not, i would be happy seeing footage of people that actually can afford those flights. Just as i loove footage of astronauts on spacewalks in the ISS.
It’s inspiring, i don’t know..

 

[timeflais]

Considering the fact SpaceX is using outdated technology, for the latest "advancements", I would heavily take with a grain of salt. Distractions.
Don't you find it ironic that the man firing these rockets into space, has a car range named Tesla?
Named after a man whos inventions, right now, after all this time, you are using to power your home (among other things). A man said to have discovered free energy (zero-point), in which he personally discusses this in a court disposition before his death.
We discuss this as conjecture of conspiracy, based on our own egos inability to "expand our thinking". Yet we deny the possibility, discarding the fact that after all this time, we are STILL using his discoveries to discuss his falsities.
Logical thinking.

Everything has meaning - Rabbits are peculiar animals, have you figured that out yet?

 

[lock2k]

And now in 2020, 343 still hasn't figured out how to make a Halo game (or a game for that matter) *Sad face*

 

[Guileless]

During the lockdown, I remember watching some of the 1968 World Series on MLB Network and was shocked that it was only black and white. The World Series was being broadcast in black & white, and a few months later we landed on the moon.

 

[West Texas CEO]

We should already have a Dyson Sphere by now.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Considering the fact SpaceX is using outdated technology, for the latest "advancements", I would heavily take with a grain of salt. Distractions.
Don't you find it ironic that the man firing these rockets into space, has a car range named Tesla?
Named after a man whos inventions, right now, after all this time, you are using to power your home (among other things). A man said to have discovered free energy (zero-point), in which he personally discusses this in a court disposition before his death.
We discuss this as conjecture of conspiracy, based on our own egos inability to "expand our thinking". Yet we deny the possibility, discarding the fact that after all this time, we are STILL using his discoveries to discuss his falsities.
Logical thinking.

Everything has meaning - Rabbits are peculiar animals, have you figured that out yet?

Donald's uncle, right?

I heard one of his relatives had some Tesla connections / was a scientist.

 

[Alx]

And now in 2020, we still havent set our foot on another planet. (or moon for that matter) *Sad face*

That's 51 fucking years!

I really loved space as a kid (and I still do), and it pains me that I might not get to see another journey to visit another planet in my lifetime. There is so much mystery left to discover. Mars is definitely doable, but when will it happen? Someone tell NASA to wake up.

Well we did land robots on Mars and have live feeds from there, it's nothing to scoff at.
But going to the moon was relatively easy compared to going to another planet. That stuff is right there next to earth, it only takes three days to go there, while it takes 50-100 times longer to reach Mars.

 

[God Enel]

Focus on Uranus not the moon

 

[The Cockatrice]

Did we actually travel to the moon tho?

 

[The Pleasure]

SpaceX will get us there, not NASA.

Nah. Elon musks batteries will die when they go 300 miles up.

 

[ValiantTraveler]

 

[#Phonepunk#]

This is one of the best counters to the idea Elon Musk is full of crap. He may be a stoner bs artist but he is making real progress in this field. You have to give him that.

Why no space? Imo the space race was the civilian face of the Cold War and the military industrial complex. With no Cold War there was no political reason to keep going. Cold War bled into
proxy wars like Afghanistan which Trump is only now starting a serious withdrawal.

Would be incredible if we were able to go back to the moon or even better Mars. I often imagine what it must have been like in 1969 to see that live.

 

[GobbledeeGoo]

We went to the moon to defeat communism and nothing more.

 

[Goro Majima]

It takes about 3 days to get to the moon and 9 months to get to Mars one way. Space is really big.

What blows my mind is that it would be easier to colonize Antarctica than Mars. The ocean itself maybe a little easier but still easier.

Space is also really hostile to human life which is why we built the ISS to study all kinds of effects of zero gravity and other space problems on various things.

So it’s not like we’ve been doing absolutely nothing the past 50 years. Although I will say it was an absolute tragedy and an outrage that we had to start relying on the Russians to send people into space.

Still looking forward to that new telescope!

 

[Sakura]

I think the idea of space travel is really cool and would love to see us travel the galaxy, but realistically speaking, what's the point?
Go to Mars and do what? It's entirely inhospitable to life. Even if there were resources there that were useful to us, the cost of actually getting there, setting up and supporting operations, and then transporting the resources back to us, would heavily outweigh the benefits.
In terms of establishing colonies, we don't have much reason to do that either. All the countries that have money, are experiencing significant slow-downs in population growth, or outright decline.
Honestly we'd probably be better of mining asteroids.

All that being said, they are supposed to be building a base on the moon not too long from now.

 

[GloveSlap]

We need some energy and propulsion breakthroughs and things will change extremely rapidly.

 

[V4skunk]

Did we actually travel to the moon tho?

I think the idea of space travel is really cool and would love to see us travel the galaxy, but realistically speaking, what's the point?
Go to Mars and do what? It's entirely inhospitable to life. Even if there were resources there that were useful to us, the cost of actually getting there, setting up and supporting operations, and then transporting the resources back to us, would heavily outweigh the benefits.
In terms of establishing colonies, we don't have much reason to do that either. All the countries that have money, are experiencing significant slow-downs in population growth, or outright decline.
Honestly we'd probably be better of mining asteroids.

All that being said, they are supposed to be building a base on the moon not too long from now.

Mars is not a dead planet like how NASA would have you believe.

Considering the fact SpaceX is using outdated technology, for the latest "advancements", I would heavily take with a grain of salt. Distractions.
Don't you find it ironic that the man firing these rockets into space, has a car range named Tesla?
Named after a man whos inventions, right now, after all this time, you are using to power your home (among other things). A man said to have discovered free energy (zero-point), in which he personally discusses this in a court disposition before his death.
We discuss this as conjecture of conspiracy, based on our own egos inability to "expand our thinking". Yet we deny the possibility, discarding the fact that after all this time, we are STILL using his discoveries to discuss his falsities.
Logical thinking.

Everything has meaning - Rabbits are peculiar animals, have you figured that out yet?

In England there are people already building Tesla tech. All of Teslas patents are available in England unlike how the US has many missing........

Dropbox - File Deleted - Simplify your life

www.dropbox.com

This is the accumulated knowledge there is so far! In England there are people making Tesla turbines using friction less aero static bearings or electromagnetic bearings. Even people messing about trying to make UFO tech.

 

[DogofWar]

I am now 27 (soon 28), I really hope "regular" people can go to space before I am too old to do such a thing. It has always been my dream. I indeed believe more in private parties reaching any success in this field than any state as the world seem right now.

 

[Tesseract]

I am now 27 (soon 28), I really hope "regular" people can go to space before I am too old to do such a thing. It has always been my dream. I indeed believe more in private parties reaching any success in this field than any state as the world seem right now.

same, my dream is to walk on the moon and look back at earth before i die

if not me, i at least want the opportunity there for my niece

 

[Kamina]

Focus on Uranus not the moon

You cant land on Uranus.
No solid surface so it would suck the rocket in and crush it under pressure.

Spoiler

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