You gonna volunteer for a one way trip off planet to someplace with no food, water, breathable air, or decent protection from the strange and unknown horrors that may accompany giant rocks that you also aren't protected from?
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· 8 years ago
I would. Lots of people would. But its more than that. We could take our time and energy to explore the universe. Not just with manned missions but robots, drones etc. We got to the moon and just stopped. Why not make science fiction science fact?
We got to the moon and stopped because the US government cut NASA's funding. And if you say "stopped" as if nothing we're doing is of any scientific importance, please remember that we just got a probe to go to Jupiter to inspect it like never before, and that companies like Spacex plan to send humans to Mars within 10 years. If that's "stopping" to you then your needs probably won't get satisfied at all.
Went to the moon and stopped? No interest in exploration? Are you fucking kidding me? Did you eat paint chips as a child or are you naturally stupid?
Lemme ask you something there sparky, you ever hear of Mariner? Pioneer? Voyager? Viking? Ulysses? Galileo? SOHO? Helios? Magellan? Spirit and Opportunity? MRO? Pathfinder? Cassini/Huygens?
How about Curiosity? What about New Horizons? I'll help you out here, what about Juno? It just arrived at Jupiter two fucking weeks ago and during its journey was the fastest space craft humans have ever built coming in at 164,000 MPH during one of the many gravity slingshot used to get there. Surely you've heard of that one. It was all over the fucking news.
That's just the major US robotic probes. There's dozens more... counting other nations the number goes into more than a hundred. Especially when you count the Soviet Venera program. Those crazy Ruskies shot a total of 28 probes at Venus.
We didn't stop.
Lemme ask you something there sparky, you ever hear of Mariner? Pioneer? Voyager? Viking? Ulysses? Galileo? SOHO? Helios? Magellan? Spirit and Opportunity? MRO? Pathfinder? Cassini/Huygens?
How about Curiosity? What about New Horizons? I'll help you out here, what about Juno? It just arrived at Jupiter two fucking weeks ago and during its journey was the fastest space craft humans have ever built coming in at 164,000 MPH during one of the many gravity slingshot used to get there. Surely you've heard of that one. It was all over the fucking news.
That's just the major US robotic probes. There's dozens more... counting other nations the number goes into more than a hundred. Especially when you count the Soviet Venera program. Those crazy Ruskies shot a total of 28 probes at Venus.
Stopped at the moon my ass.