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I'm convinced that learning to terraform our own planet is essential before moving out into the stars. If we won't take our own ecosystem seriously we can't possibly go out there and build new ones to live in.
It's actually really obvious the more you think about it.
I dont believe in the future anymore
Future? No thanks!
Lmao yeah let's design a spacecraft that requires it's engine to be cooled constantly just to avoid a nuclear meltdown. This is absolutely a viable option in the vacuum of space.
That is not the reason this thing that won't happen won't happen. Nuclear rockets have already been developed and tested all the way back in the 60s. It won't happen because amerikkka can't build anything and absolutely can't build all the things that this mission would require in two years.
I am merely a big sci fi nerd who tries his best to know how space works. The degree to which this is impossible is like...overwhelming. Also stop being Mars perverts. There is nothing there. We already know that. Venus is a more potentially useful planet. The ISS in my opinion is the most important space thing that we have and we should make more of them. I may be a known gundam fan but part of what made me one was that I had already thought that orbital colonies are the best path forward towards human occupation of space before these ideas of a fucking trip to mars. We can't go to other planets. We just cant. The only way we can learn to do so is by learning how to make living in space comfortably work. We know how to get shit in orbit. Mars is boring, we have sent enough probes to know that
How is Venus more useful? It's more of a hell planet than Mars is.
That hell is made of shit we csn use instead of just mostly an absence of anything. It is widely more colonizable although either are far flung. Venus is chock full of useful gap and making cloud cities on Venus is a more attainable goal than living on Mars. I dont think either are that great of an idea for now, but Venus is a more useful target than Mars. If youre considering either as a place to live you are looking at space exploration wrong. Occupying planets long term is soooo much harder than space colonies that get raw martial and energy from these planets, and for that Venus is the winus. We cant and maybe shouldnt make planets hospitable to people. There are huge ethical considerations there if it wrent such a fantastic idea in the first place. We cant even keep a planet that sustains life really well on its own together, no fucking eay can we bend other planets to suit our survival any time soon.
None of those reasons sound any more viable than Mars, and even if we wanted to exploit the resources of the surface, nothing we want to send down will survive long enough because of the atmospheric pressure, temperatures and corrosive atmosphere. Any automated systems will just stop working. At least on Mars we can send drones down that won't disintegrate after a short time. The only thing you could do is scoop up gases on the upper atmosphere (which is mostly CO2 anyway, basically useless), but that's a waste of energy and the weather systems make that a crapshoot.
But like you said, Mars is also silly, there's nothing there and it's too far away, it's only real value is advancing scientific understanding and that's it.
Somewhere between space and hell is approximately STP
Tiangong > ISS and my most anticipated space mission is Chang'e 8, the ISRU test one.
Indont know my recent space station lore. But space stations. We need space stations. Once again being this made me like Gundam, I got the feeling from star trek, space is the place. Being a species that can figure out how to live in such a hostile environment and spreading life as we know it, cause we havent seen any other evidence so far, is gonna be necessary for not fucking up earth at this point. I just like holding on to the idea of s future that is cool in at least a bit of my mind.
Tiangong is the Chinese one, it's way newer and way less jank. It's being used primarily for studying living in space and developing technology for better space living.
You may remember it as the one with the air fryer barbecue wings.
Second paragraphs jogged my memory. That sounds like the exact thing we should be doing. Go far plant flag is such a deeply arrogant approach. Space exploration<Space occupation. We can send fucking robots to look at stuff. There is no reason to send anyone to planets
China's approach to lunar exploration is exactly right. They've been building up experience and technology for living in space with Tiangong, communications infrastructure with Queqiao, and navigation and landing experience as well as observation and samples from the lunar surface with Chang'e. By the time they actually send people to the moon (still before Artemis) they'll be going to a site that's already been surveyed and mapped by rovers, with experiments in making fuel and structures from lunar material already underway.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that there's no reason to ever send anyone to planets, but the go far plant flag mission is a pretty total waste of time, money, and risk. Did you know Apollo only ever put exactly one (1) scientist on the moon, in the very last mission?
I did know the Apollo thing. And yeah, planets are cool, but let's set our sights realistically for a bit. Orbit good. Mars bad.
It is nowhere near time to try sending humans to Mars. It's a pointless dead poisonous rock.
What the hell kind of propulsion could a nuclear reactor do in space? Don't we just use that shit to heat water to spin turbines here on earth? Don't we basically push ourselves around in space by letting the air out of balloons in the vacuum of space?
The efficiency of a rocket motor is proportional to the exhaust velocity, which is proportional to the exhaust temperature. If you run hydrogen over a nuclear reactor, it gets hotter and therefore faster than if you just burned it. This has already been built and was called NERVA, and should have been used in the 70s with the rest of the cancelled STS program.
That's the funniest shit I have seen all day
This is like Star Trek, but it's the mirror universe where Earth is way more imperialistic than it is in regular Star Trek.
https://youtu.be/xLuP_90sabY (CW: gun deaths)
Wheres my goatee goddamnit
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
He 100% got this idea from Elon
some guy called Stanislaw Ulam, actually. Project Orion is one of those crazy late 40s/early 50s ideas that you probably could build but nobody was stupid enough to try
To be fair the post atomic horror preceded the events of the show in Star Trek
I feel like I see that same thumbheaded guy in every space force photo op
or maybe I just see Vic Mackey everywhere and it's more of a me problem
As fine a way of saying 'no more Artemis missions' as any
2028? The degree to which this isn't going to happen is unmatched
Things that will never happen
Imagine being on the USS Abraham Lincoln but a spacecraft
I'll take my chances with the xenomorph living in the holds.
Oh, that's just Elon
This is how you get IRL Event Horizon
If it brings back Sam Neill, I'll take it
Yeah that one hit me harder than Dolly or Curry. Though Curry was close.
Full blockade of the Wormhole of ~~Hormuz~~ America and occupation of Deep Space Kharg
I mean he said it so we know it’s not happening.
Come on now, sweaty. You just gotta have FAITH OF THE HEAAAAAAAART
The ST butt rock song really started to grow on me until they added that fucking drum solo in the last season.
title makes it sound like star wars???
Yes, sw is more libertarian wild west than st's socialist utopia.
we can only hope things resemble star wars
We'll get the Firefly 'verse, complete with Earth That Was
