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Science bump.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/confirmation-of-geomagnetically-trapped.html

Soon, my beloved. Soon.

>In this thread, we nominate our candidates for supreme, eternal ruler of Humanity. Pic related, it's my nomination.

God-Emperor Charles Sherman Pellegrino

I rest my case.

You forgot to put above newton:

>Charles Pellegrino tier: Charles Pellegrino

The face that stared back at him from the mirror was unshaven and haggard, its eyes rimmed with dark circles. He was too tired to get rid of the beard, though, so he clipped it short with his scissors and let his hair remain at shoulder length. It was a new look for him, and he couldn’t decide whether he liked it or not. Not that he cared much any more.

It took a couple of days for him to want to eat again, and even longer before he had a good night’s sleep. More than a few times he was tempted to have another drink, but the memory of that terrifying moment in the airlock was enough to keep him away from the bottle.

Yet he never returned to the daily schedule he had previously set for himself. He lost interest in his studies, and he watched the few movies stored in the library until he found himself able to recite the characters’ lines from memory. The game table couldn’t be repaired, so he never played chess again. He went jogging now and then, but only when there was nothing else to do, and not for very long.

He spent long hours lying on his bunk, staring into the deepest recesses of his memory. He replayed events from his childhood–small incidents with his mother and father, the funny and stupid things he had done when he was a kid–and thought long and hard about the mistakes he had made during his journey to adulthood. He thought about the girls he had known, refought old quarrels with ancient enemies, remembered good times with old friends, yet in the end he always came back to where he was.

ITT: Optimism.

>Funding for Skylon will continue
>The Senate bill for NASA will pass
>You will see an exponential growth of the commercial spaceflight market and the rapid develop of heavy infrastructure on LEO
>Japan will build its space elevator
>An assembler will be built in this decade and will start the nanotech revolution
>The Manhattan Beach Project will be successful
>By 2050, the cislunar and cisjovian space will have been colonized

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>I believe that's called beastiality.

It's not bestiality if she's humanoid and fully sentient u_u

>And what happened to you being all optimistic? Scia very well will probably go into space with the radical life extension treatments and all.

I'm optimistic enough about nanotech, I don't have to be optimistic about all the other stuff because it increases my chances of being horribly disappoint.

Prepare for the worst, secretly dream for the best.

ITT: Xenobiology.

What do you think life in other worlds is like, /sci/? Do you think it's mostly Carbon, or that we are a rare gem of self-replicating fullerene in a universe full of consciousness that exists in plasma clouds?

ITT: Xenobiology

Pic oh so very related.

Sure are scientific inaccuracies in here.

>1.Where should we colonize first, the moon or mars?

Star with a space station, then immediately an asteroid and start mining THE SHIT out of it to prepare for peak Platinium and Peak [any rare Earth metal vital for circuitry].

Then the Moon. Then Mars. Then Cisjovia. Eventually, the cometary halo and the Saturnian moons.

2.What system should we use to make the trip from earth to the colony as cheap as possible?

Solar sails, magsails or VASIMR.

>3.Should it be a government or private affair?

Private with gov'ment grants.

>4.What current as near future technologies could be used to make colonization possible?

I think we have pretty much everything but have not perfected closed-loop food stuff so yeah, we have to do that, and then we can send people without sending a fleet or automated spacecraft with supplies #-_-

Isaac Asimov, Charles Pellegrino, and Larry Niven.

Ringworld, fuck yeah.

Have you read The Ringworld Engineers?

Bumping up this shit for great justice.

Charles Pellegrino, always related.

Spaceship thread.

I'll begin.

Picture courtesy of yours truly.