VlaSoul wrote:Honestly if we're talking about the 40k one, that's the worst possible outcome
So, we let a few demons in what's the big deal? In return, we get guys with power armour and super gravely voices who get forced to star in some terrible video games.
I know very little about the 40k universe but it can't be all that bad.
VlaSoul wrote:Honestly if we're talking about the 40k one, that's the worst possible outcome
So, we let a few demons in what's the big deal? In return, we get guys with power armour and super gravely voices who get forced to star in some terrible video games.
I know very little about the 40k universe but it can't be all that bad.
Honestly the 40k universe might be the darkest, worst possible situation for humanity. It's strawberry floated.
It's hugely depressing when you realise if you are any age under 48 no one has set foot on the moon in your lifetime. I assume any children or young people watching the landings at the time would have imagined the world to be very different today. It probably seemed inevitable that there would be some kind of permanent moon base by now.
Yeah, I think a lot of people back then assumed new technology would be invented to allow mega cheap transit of materials into orbit. It's improved a bit but there's a hell of a long way to go before we can do anything major. The ISS has been insanely expensive.
It still costs around a million dollars to get something the size of 100 tins of baked beans into space, or thereabouts. I don't know why I chose baked beans as the example. They're probably not going to be essential for building a moon base.
The sooner they invent wormhole technology the better. We'd have a moon base up in no time.
We're figuring out cheaper ways to get into space, and one of them is letting the private sector go wild on it, spending its money on developing technologies NASA and other agencies have never had the public funding to pursue. Another would be the creation of a system of space planes and orbital skyhooks (not space elevators).
Alvin Flummux wrote:We're figuring out cheaper ways to get into space, and one of them is letting the private sector go wild on it, spending its money on developing technologies NASA and other agencies have never had the public funding to pursue. Another would be the creation of a system of space planes and orbital skyhooks (not space elevators).
Alvin Flummux wrote:We're figuring out cheaper ways to get into space, and one of them is letting the private sector go wild on it, spending its money on developing technologies NASA and other agencies have never had the public funding to pursue. Another would be the creation of a system of space planes and orbital skyhooks (not space elevators).
I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).
Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).
Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).
Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).
Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).