The Sage of Main Street
Gold Member
You've Chewed More Than You Bit OffNot so long ago the Oceans imprisoned people to where they were. Soon space will just be another ocean to crossNobody wants to face the fact that the earth is humanity's home/prison.Not if an ion drive is employed, though I agree that blowing stuff off the Earth is meaninglessThe problem is, it's a 2 year trip, minimum. To the moon is only a few days.We can visit Mars for a short time like we did the moon but the soil is toxic and the radiation is intense. We won't stay very long.
That's a LOOONG time to go without an equipment malfunction that could cost everyone their lives.
And MOST of the mars landings ended in failure
Most people don't have a clue how big Space is.
If the sun was the size of a golf ball the nearest star would be about 760 miles away.
It would take the entire energy output of the world for three years to propel a spacecraft the size of a Shuttle to 20% the speed of light.
...and Mars is relatively "close".
People have been brainwashed by science FICTION
It took years for someone to finally swim the English Channel. Does that mean that someday someone will swim the Atlantic? Ocean? Comparing this escapist Trekkie circus to anything but childish self-indulgence by nerdy misfits is an insult to mankind's brave explorers.