Re: Space
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:42 am
Anything made on the moon will probably cost millions on Earth for the first few years, due to the costs of transportation.
Cal wrote:Space is amazing. Truly mind boggling. Sometimes I look up at the clear night sky (we have pretty good skies around here out in the sticks in Central Bedfordshire) and I'm just... well, actually a little bit scared by it all. I just always come back to that one Huge Question: What's it all for? It scares me that in my lifetime I'll never know why it's all there in all it's infinite size. It's life's great mystery and who knows if anyone, ever, will find out the reason for it all?
I'm a stupid Hobbit wrote:You know the "one way trip" idea of a Mars visit. I can envisage a time in the future where people, that have been so astounded by the achievement of colonising another planet, would attempt to retrieve the "one way trip" colonists because they believe it can be done. Mars is infectious, people love hearing news about it, especially to do with human visits. I think attention to Mars would balloon to the extent that any successful one-way-ticket colonists could realistically look to return to Earth after 20/30 years. Folk would salvage them just to prove that it could be done, which again would increase people's fascination with the red planet.
Cal wrote:Space is amazing. Truly mind boggling. Sometimes I look up at the clear night sky (we have pretty good skies around here out in the sticks in Central Bedfordshire) and I'm just... well, actually a little bit scared by it all. I just always come back to that one Huge Question: What's it all for? It scares me that in my lifetime I'll never know why it's all there in all it's infinite size. It's life's great mystery and who knows if anyone, ever, will find out the reason for it all?
As a kid living in Devon I used to go and stay with a friend who lived out in the countryside and we'd go up into the forest behind the house late at night, climb a hill above the treeline and just lie back and stare at the night skies. So clear you could see the Milky Way, a beautiful ribbon of stars strung out across the heavens. We'd see shooting stars coming in fast, burning up fast. The wonder of it all.
Space is amazing.
Aayule1 wrote:Growing gooseberry fool on the moon is such a cool idea.
I want to eat moon food.
Lotus wrote:I love watching documentaries about space - Horizon and such - and occasionally use a few apps on my phone to check out the stars and information about them. Would be interested in any good sites for reference or documentaries if anyone has any?
Cal wrote:Space is amazing. Truly mind boggling. Sometimes I look up at the clear night sky (we have pretty good skies around here out in the sticks in Central Bedfordshire) and I'm just... well, actually a little bit scared by it all. I just always come back to that one Huge Question: What's it all for? It scares me that in my lifetime I'll never know why it's all there in all it's infinite size. It's life's great mystery and who knows if anyone, ever, will find out the reason for it all?
As a kid living in Devon I used to go and stay with a friend who lived out in the countryside and we'd go up into the forest behind the house late at night, climb a hill above the treeline and just lie back and stare at the night skies. So clear you could see the Milky Way, a beautiful ribbon of stars strung out across the heavens. We'd see shooting stars coming in fast, burning up fast. The wonder of it all.
Space is amazing.
Cal wrote:Space is amazing. Truly mind boggling. Sometimes I look up at the clear night sky (we have pretty good skies around here out in the sticks in Central Bedfordshire) and I'm just... well, actually a little bit scared by it all. I just always come back to that one Huge Question: What's it all for? It scares me that in my lifetime I'll never know why it's all there in all it's infinite size. It's life's great mystery and who knows if anyone, ever, will find out the reason for it all?
Pontius Pilate wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to terraform Venus? It's closer, it's in the "habital zone" of the solar system, it has it's own atmosphere. It's just really strawberry floating hot and poisonous. But surely it's easier to change an atmosphere than create one from scratch?
Pontius Pilate wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to terraform Venus? It's closer, it's in the "habital zone" of the solar system, it has it's own atmosphere. It's just really strawberry floating hot and poisonous. But surely it's easier to change an atmosphere than create one from scratch?
Pontius Pilate wrote:Growing plants on a planet is not a viable way to colonize a plant though. That would take, literally hundreds of thousands of years to create an atmosphere rich in oxygen...It's 19th century science being applied to a 22nd century problem.
We need to figure out how to substantially speed up that process.
Xeno wrote:Pontius Pilate wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to terraform Venus? It's closer, it's in the "habital zone" of the solar system, it has it's own atmosphere. It's just really strawberry floating hot and poisonous. But surely it's easier to change an atmosphere than create one from scratch?
Interesting idea, one other thing it's atmosphere is 90 times the pressure of earth.
Xeno wrote:Pontius Pilate wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to terraform Venus? It's closer, it's in the "habital zone" of the solar system, it has it's own atmosphere. It's just really strawberry floating hot and poisonous. But surely it's easier to change an atmosphere than create one from scratch?
Interesting idea, one other thing it's atmosphere is 90 times the pressure of earth.
Somebody Else's Presents wrote:Cal wrote:Space is amazing. Truly mind boggling. Sometimes I look up at the clear night sky (we have pretty good skies around here out in the sticks in Central Bedfordshire) and I'm just... well, actually a little bit scared by it all. I just always come back to that one Huge Question: What's it all for? It scares me that in my lifetime I'll never know why it's all there in all it's infinite size. It's life's great mystery and who knows if anyone, ever, will find out the reason for it all?
Does there need to be a reason?
SillySprout wrote:Xeno wrote:Pontius Pilate wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to terraform Venus? It's closer, it's in the "habital zone" of the solar system, it has it's own atmosphere. It's just really strawberry floating hot and poisonous. But surely it's easier to change an atmosphere than create one from scratch?
Interesting idea, one other thing it's atmosphere is 90 times the pressure of earth.
Titan excites me more than anything else in our solar system. It will be interesting to see how life has evolved there without the influence of land mammals.
Preezy wrote:Somebody Else's Presents wrote:Cal wrote:Space is amazing. Truly mind boggling. Sometimes I look up at the clear night sky (we have pretty good skies around here out in the sticks in Central Bedfordshire) and I'm just... well, actually a little bit scared by it all. I just always come back to that one Huge Question: What's it all for? It scares me that in my lifetime I'll never know why it's all there in all it's infinite size. It's life's great mystery and who knows if anyone, ever, will find out the reason for it all?
Does there need to be a reason?
Space Jesus
Meep wrote:Meaning originates within the mind, it is subjective, so it would reasonable to say that if there is a reason for the universe than it is within us. Only by comprehending and experiencing the universe does it have any meaning. Without anyone to observe and know the universe it may as well not exist at all, right? I suppose this applies to any other sapient beings out there in the universe too.
I think there are probably other universes in existence parallel to ours whose physical laws have not been conducive to life. They may as well not exist; unless we find some way to detect them. Our universe is special because we got the variables necessary to start off the whole chain of creating basic amino acids all the way though to complex organisms. Then again, since there could be an infinite number of universes, then there would be an infinite number that are conducive to one or more forms of life. So maybe we are not that special after all.