QA, there are so many bizarre assumptions and bad arguments in that link, such as assuming we can't both solve problems on Earth and do space stuff. Or throwing in some irrelevant rant about the impossibility of forever exponentially increasing energy consumption (which isn't needed for anything). Or the bizarre distance argument about difficulty of reaching some location being somehow proportional to its distance from Earth rather delta v or availability of energy/resources at the destination. And of cours
"Bizarre assumptions" is Space Nutter code for physics, reality, and limits.
Nothing will happen in space. Ever.
We already know that technology allows us to do a whole lot more in space than "nothing". That's already demonstrated to be false. Why argue that we can't live in space or other such things when there's been people living in space for over 15 years and profitable and useful satellites?
And the rapid advance of technology these days rules out that things will stay as they are forever. Just because it's relatively expensive now to put things in space and as a result do useful things in space, doesn't mean
Yes, the "rapid" advance of our technology... We don't even have the Concorde anymore.
We have plenty of supersonic aircraft, there just wasn't enough demand for the Concorde to justify its cost.
The thing with people like you is that you are just like a religious person. You don't want to hear reality.
What "reality" am I not "hearing"? You just present vague talk. The writer linked to earlier, presents arguments that just don't have much relevance to space activities.
But just in case, how much more time of nothing (in the sense of the grandiose stuff you propose, not cameras on wheels and radios in orbit) happening will convince you that nothing will ever happen?
I'd say about half a billion years probably would do. If life hasn't left Earth by the time the Sun goes nova, then that's a good indication that this stuff is impossible.
There will be no Moon colonies, no asteroid mining, no great shiny expansion of the glorious species into the empty vacuum of space, nothing.
And what is that based on? We've already demonstrated the physic
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And when you're done, some reality (Score:0)
When you're done with your sci-fi high and fantasies, get back down to Earth...
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/why-not-space/
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"Bizarre assumptions" is Space Nutter code for physics, reality, and limits.
Nothing will happen in space. Ever.
We already know that technology allows us to do a whole lot more in space than "nothing". That's already demonstrated to be false. Why argue that we can't live in space or other such things when there's been people living in space for over 15 years and profitable and useful satellites?
And the rapid advance of technology these days rules out that things will stay as they are forever. Just because it's relatively expensive now to put things in space and as a result do useful things in space, doesn't mean
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Yes, the "rapid" advance of our technology... We don't even have the Concorde anymore.
We have plenty of supersonic aircraft, there just wasn't enough demand for the Concorde to justify its cost.
The thing with people like you is that you are just like a religious person. You don't want to hear reality.
What "reality" am I not "hearing"? You just present vague talk. The writer linked to earlier, presents arguments that just don't have much relevance to space activities.
But just in case, how much more time of nothing (in the sense of the grandiose stuff you propose, not cameras on wheels and radios in orbit) happening will convince you that nothing will ever happen?
I'd say about half a billion years probably would do. If life hasn't left Earth by the time the Sun goes nova, then that's a good indication that this stuff is impossible.
There will be no Moon colonies, no asteroid mining, no great shiny expansion of the glorious species into the empty vacuum of space, nothing.
And what is that based on? We've already demonstrated the physic