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krispos42

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Wed May-04-11 10:42 PM
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A vaguely depressing graph

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

*sigh*

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tridim

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Wed May-04-11 10:49 PM
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1. It'd be nice if we had more than one Moon to walk on.

I bet we'll walk on Mars and Jupiter/Saturn's moons in a few hundred years.

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Buzz Clik

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Wed May-04-11 10:57 PM
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2. It sucks. But, as I, too, get older, I have had the pleasure of being in the room of two such giants

I have a picture of Armstrong on with the camera on my phone (a real thrill for me for sure), and I was in a tight little meeting with Harrison Schmidt.

Armstrong was being honored for being awesome, but Schmidt was simply an interested potential investor in a new technology. Armstrong was the first on the moon, Schmidt next to last. Schmidt is credited with this famous photo:

At a big gala at my little school, I attended an event hosting astronauts who had attained one degree or another from our humble institution. There were 25 or so astronauts in attendance. I felt like a 12-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber concert.

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reggie the dog

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Thu May-05-11 06:05 AM
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3. russia is planning a manned mission to mars

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LongTomH

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Thu May-05-11 12:58 PM
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4. Years ago: I heard Arthur C. Clarke remark...........

......that the cultures that survived long term were cultures that had reached beyond their home worlds.

Carl Sagan said essentially the same thing in Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Now Stephen Hawking is saying we need to colonize space for the human race to survive long term.

Why aren't our leaders listening?:wtf:

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LongTomH

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Thu May-05-11 04:21 PM
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5. Too late to edit but, I'd like to add...........

Sometime back in the 90's, I was at a National Space Society conference where Dr. David Webb made the statement that we had only about 50 years to become a multi-planet society. After that, the limits of this planet catch up to us and we won't have the resources.

If we do become a multi-planet society, we have access to the resources of the asteroid belt, 24 hour solar energy and (possibly) helium-3 fusion fuel from the lunar surface and the giant planets. Please take note that China,India and Russia are very interested in lunar helium-3.

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