/sci/ - Science & Math

I *hate* C++

>>2192230
Hahaha, you're trying to justify the economics of this now? Christ

Listen kiddo, do you know how much the ISS has cost? 157 billion dollars, so far.

Just imagine how much it would cost to build a pointless moon colony. It would easily run into the trillions of dollars, if not tens of trillions. It would constantly have to be maintained by Earth, would be reliant on a constant stream of supplies and would serve literally no useful purpose at the moment. There's no return on that money. Now I know what you're going to say, can't we farm all the Helium 2 isotope and sell that on Earth? Well we can't because we don't have nuclear fusion plants yet, and won't have for another century probably.

Also we haven't even tapped most of the natural resources on Earth yet. Just in november this year, a trillion dollars worth of minerals have been calculated to be in Afghanistan (iron, lithium etc)

>>2183474
We're better off investing in our planet for Energy. Between nuclear fission, energy farming (wind and tidal) and geothermal power.. we'd have no energy problems. All of these things are in their infancy, even nuclear fission. Engineers and scientists pretty much stopped improving nuclear power plants in the 1970s. If nuclear fission became more popular we could increase the efficiency of the plants.

>>2175725
>air pressure in millibars
>not using Pascals
>mfw
>also implying you can't convert units

>>1757970
I'm just wondering if africans are capable of getting to our standard of technology and health on their own, or were they ever capable of this.