/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1516137

Not who you're replying to, but he's being realistic. There is nothing to suggest that the human race will ever progress further into space than it has now. In all likelyhood the moon landings were the pinacle of human achievement. The industrial age has just been a blip, as soon as the oil starts to run out (i.e. a couple of years ago) it'll all be over. People think that just because we've been living like this for less than 50 years it'll last forever. People are idiots.
And even if we could somehow overcome the obstacle of energy depletion, realistically, governments simply cannot allow private citizens to get into anything other than orbit because as soon as you get further out than the moon any cock up could lead to the destruction of large areas of the earth.

If you think that in the future people will be scooting around in spaceships willy-nilly you are a clown

the way in which magnets project force is not understood
There are a number of theories, including ones about virtual photons.
The same is true of gravity in that the rationale behind the force is understood, but not the method of force projection

in b4 psuedoscience nonsense from an electrogravitics crank with pictures of flying saucers on their basement wall