/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3578036
You will see widespread space exploration and colonization firsthand.


The technology:
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/06/spacexs-falcon-heavy-most-powerful-private-rocket-ever/
http://www.universetoday.com/73536/nasa-considering-rail-gun-launch-system-to-the-stars/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4799369.ece

The will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bIQLiKi3g
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/lord-british-wants-to-take-you-to-space-and-hes-closer-th
an-you-think.ars/3

The time (and one of the main kicks in the ass to get it started):
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029
http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972#
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans

The economic benefits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
>At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1 mile contains more than $20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Objects#Near-Earth_asteroids
>As of May 2010, 7,075 near-Earth asteroids are known,[14] ranging in size up to ~32 kilometers (1036 Ganymed).[16] The number of near-Earth asteroids over one kilometer in diameter is estimated to be 500 - 1,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/

>>3299477
Finally, a Deimos picture

>>2966303
nice. just thinking about it . it amazes me that we've even been able to get out of out planet., the very fact that space which is uninhabitable encompasses the majority and yet humans have been able to be those odds. ...wow

There's a culture.

A sub-culture to be exact.

Where people hide and play.
And.
Be.

Nuclear fission, hydroelectric and geothermal for base load, solar/wind/tidal for research and novel towns as well as solar hot water heaters and electric/hydrogen hybrid cars.
Sound good?

Why don't we take all our waste and shoot it into outer space? (or at the sun)

>>2103228

My opinion on Buddism is that we are all going to reach Nirvana eventually, whether we want to or not. So people who spend this tiny particle of reality trying to wish it away are just cheating themselves out of a lot of experience in pursuit of a goal they are destined to reach anyway.

So I hurt them more. They grew. They fused together into nations of life, creatures small, but growingly large. I pitted them against each other, blocking out the sun to force them to feast upon the flesh of their fellows, and so they grew clever, cunning. They learned hunger at my knee as I starved them. As they grew in wisdom, so did I. I have come to understand what my primal brain only suspected. As they grow, so do I. As my will swells, they grow more and more complex. When the Tyrannosaurus roared its love for me to the heavens, I roared back. It was not good enough for me, for it loved me, it appreciated what I had given it. I destroyed it, utterly, and all of its ken. Weak they were, and weakness was purged from them with fire and smoke and searing stone.

>>1472190
>>1472198
Shortsightedness will be our downfall.

Is the speed of light the maximum speed allowable in the universe? If so, why?

Consider this, you have a rocket with some form of constant propulsion in space. Assume whatever fuel source it has is limitless. Theoretically, if the rocket is under constant acceleration, then wouldn't it have no upper bound on its maximum speed?