I want to get off this planet!

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OneWhiteDuck a commenté sur “Interesting Links” (3)   avril 2010

• soestdyik

  Als die ersten Missionare nach Afrika kamen, besaßen sie die Bibel und wir das Land. Sie forderten uns auf zu beten. Und wir schlossen die Augen. Als wir sie wieder öffneten, war die Lage genau umgekehrt: Wir hatten die Bibel und sie das Land. Erzbischof Desmond Tutu

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• pee-why

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  mars 2012

• Neue_regel_

  Very interesting article on space colonization , I was reading that, the other day --> http://io9.com/5717779/why-dont-people-understand-the-urgency-of-colonizing-other-planets

  février 2012

• DolceEssenza

  Indeed it is stagnant. I don't think wars are to blame. Politicians maybe. In my opinion, we need a new Cold War, because we all know, what the greatest achievement of the USSR was, landing on the Moon.

  janvier 2012

• Neue_regel_

  "Technological Singularity" you mean Ray Kurzweil (inventor of the Kurzweil synthesizer etc.), right? I've got his book, 'The Singularity is near". Quite nice, but it's full of predictions only (including that for 2045) Nothing extremely solid insofar. In the last 40 years (1972-2012) no human has left again the LEO - Low-Earth -Orbit (300 km above ground) . Space exploration is extremely stagnant & slow. Politicians with their wars are entirely to blame for this regression and stagnation.

  janvier 2012

• ceramicrobot

  Hey so there's this guy who keeps saying the technological singularity will occur in 2045. If he's right we might be able to get off this planet by the end of the century.

  octobre 2011

• Neue_regel_

  @clytie_hizashi "we'd try to domesticate alien life??" Well, what makes you think that we are smarter than any supposed Aliens? We cannot even establish a base to the Moon, which is only 1.3 light seconds away, even after 42 years. Our global politics is a joke, not to mention our environmental damage to Earth. I'd would say that Aliens would be the ones to try to domesticate us, and NOT the opposite. We,humans, would just be their whiny drama-filled carbon-based lifeforms artifact PETS from the third blue rock (Earth) of a middle-age G2V star ( Sun) inside a 100Kpc-wide spiral galaxy (Milky Way). I think they might like their human specimen and we would make a good exhibition site into their Alien galactic animal museum next to chimps or gorillas. And maybe, Alien parents would bring their alien kids into these alien zoos/museums and laugh at the sight of human specimens, in the same way that human kids laugh at zoo parrots, zebras or seals. Think about it.

  septembre 2011

• clytie_hizashi

  To me, until we solve our own problems on Earth, we shouldn't even think about going out "there". Can you imagine if we actually did find life? If it was below our development, we'd try to domesticate it. If it was comparable to us, we'd try to colonize it. If it was above us, we'd try to exterminate it. Good lord, no. Humans should stay on Earth until they can play nice with the lifeforms they already know about.

  août 2011

• EmptyUniverse

  EURRROPPPAAAAA!!!! why no rosetta in charts?

  août 2011

• Neue_regel_

  Also, Obama last year also cancelled the Constellation program" that was supposed to established a Moon base (yes) and a manned trip to Mars (yeah). US launches to ISS - International Space Station are also cancelled, first time since 1981. In a recent CNN poll. (Is space exploration an expense governments can justify? Yes66%2831 No34%1456 Total votes: 4287) 34 % of people do not even approve to spent a single buck off their federal budget being spent for Space Exploration. I don't really get how tiny mind some people really have. They're rather offend some stranger in the other side of the planet like Iraq rather than trying to explore anything other than this planet. The majority of people only think in a Flat surface like Abbot said, and cannot even contemplate anything past beyond their own nose, nor they ever care to look up to see the stars. That's why I made the crawling Snails/Humans analogy in my previous comment

  juillet 2011

• Neue_regel_

  t's not that we are not assholes. It is that we are just too primitive as a species, and not particularly intelligent. Our Civilisation is only 0.72 at the Kardashev logarithmic Scale. We should reach at least a civilisation Type-2 in order to attempt any serious interstellar travel. I don't see how this could happen in this Millienium. Human Progress is very slow. Humans remind me of some Slugs and Snails that want to reach the end of a Skyscraper but they will not make it because they don't live that long and they're also not well equipped to the gliding harshes of a skyscraper climbing (e..g Sun, Rain, Wind ). In analogy, we humans can't also go to interstellar space because in long-term we know that we will totally suffer from : Cosmic Radiation (Neutrinos etc. ) , Solar Magnetic Wind, Bone loss due to Lack of Gravity=Weightlessness, Micro-Meteoroid collisions, Energy & Fuel Depletion. Until at least 2500, we are hopeless.

  juillet 2011

• Retro_Saiyan

  I would not be shocked if there are lots of planets with sentient life in the galaxy, but they don't talk to us because they want to wait until they think humans are ready to meet them, while others don't visit because they consider humans to be annoying assholes.

  juillet 2011

• Neue_regel_

  And as the Russian Dr. Tsiolokovsky said in 1895 : "The Earth is the Cradle of Mankind, but One cannot stay in the cradle forever" It sucks for us to be like babies and live in the cradle of Earth all the time.

  mai 2011

• Neue_regel_

  In the vid the scientist lady says " With the current technology it would take 300,000 years to go to Gliese 581-d. Damn !! Someone should invent shortcuts like near-Light-speed Solar Sails or any exotic Time Travel means.

  mai 2011

• Neue_regel_

  read that today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13423085 Gliese 581-d seems to be actually as good as Gliese 581-d as far as Habitability is concerned

  mai 2011

• Mighty-Forest

  Great group ! Space is so fascinating...

  février 2011

• Neue_regel_

  Ok, before we head to planet Gliese 581-c that normally should support human life, we should consider that there is no infrastructure for internet/facilities there, plus it lags for about 20 lightyears ;). Should be more boring than watching U.S. TV shows. =))))

  décembre 2010

• Retro_Saiyan

  They should do more research on the moon Europa of Jupiter. It may have microbial life, and even if it doesn't, it provides an example of how a moon orbiting a gas giant could be like in other solar systems.

  octobre 2010

• KharBevNor

  Onewhiteduck, George R.R. Martin started his career writing sci-fi, a fact which I'd forgotten because I had him confused with someone else, and I had this argument with the person who suggested him. All his Hugo's and Nebulas are for sci-fi novellas he wrote back in the 70's and 80's, and he does in fact write about interstellar travel and life on other worlds, so...

  septembre 2010

• Mangekyou7

  It's such a shame that interest in space has just declined since the space race. I've just watched 2001 A Space Odyssey, which at the rate space technology was going at the time, was a realistic future, but it sadly never happened... The world seems too busy with fighting itself to do anything that will actually help in the long term, since we can't stay on Earth forever.

  septembre 2010