/sci/ - Science & Math

The next 50 years?
I think we'd be lucky to send more unmanned probes to mars.

>>3833569
Why do you say we'd be lucky to send unmanned probes? We're already sending probes now. We sent one to Jupiter less than a month ago.

Why would you want to go to Europe?

Bunch of communist dickholes.

This is why the space program is a waste of tax dollars. You give them billions of dollars, and they waste it on fucking vacations.

We just gotta keep doing what we're doing, and China will dominate space in no time.

>>3833583

But funding continues to be cut.

>>3833585
>>3833585
Vote for me. I'll send you to Uranus.

The cynicism in this thread is unfortunately correct. Probes are the full extent of it, and they'll even stop sending those, in favor of lofting more satellites which will invariably have military application.

>>3833589
By "We", I mean we as humans, not just Americans. JAXA, ESA, ISRO all can do it.

You never know republicans could go ape shit on Iran and nuke it causing another cold war and possibly the end of humanity.

The problem is that the motivation behind funding space technology is to dominate space, not because it's for the good of mankind. Just like we have the UN, we need a joint space agency where all countries can contribute and work together. This is the only way to advance. Right now they're just pissing away money to show whose dick is bigger, and other countries are wasting money to develop the same technology.

>>3833566
You'll go to space.
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
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43451526/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/nasa-selects-new-heavy-lift-r
ocket-say-sources/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/24/skylon_esa_report/

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
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/04/26/elon-musk-we-can-put-a-man-on-mars-in-10-years/
http://www.gamefront.com/john-carmack-helps-make-space-travel-more-affordable/
http://www.virgingalactic.com/

>>3833671
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.ted.com/themes/might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/sierra-sciences-working-towards.html
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
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-biologists-yeast-cells-reverse-aging.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-dna-reverse-premature-aging.html

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.

>>3833674
> The economic benefits:
> REGURGITATED PHYSICAL FACTS THAT ARE STILL POINTLESS

Dude, anyone can total up the dollar value of ores. That was never EVER the problem. The P-R-O-B-L-E-M is that those who control the resources that provide access to space, are not the ones who understand such things, or even worse they understand such things and then understand more than that, that letting people get out there with equipment and access to energy and spacecraft is a BAD IDEA, since with just a little delta-v, all those invested resources can just go BYE-BYE.

The people who control our resources only care about MONEY, and in order to obtain money, they have to have ultimate CONTROL. Letting you nerds rocket around the planetary system without restriction is no control at all. And they can't even TAX you.

The planetary system has so much wealth waiting for us, that each person now alive could equivalently obtain a nation's worth of wealth on his own. And that's a low estimate. The system has vast resources. But those in charge now would CEASE to be in charge, necessarily, which is the end of the world as far as they are concerned. So they will NEVER allow it. They will throw away a trillion trillion dollars in wealth, just to utterly control 100 trillion here on Earth.

>>3833733
You're not that 'violent simian' guy, are you?

bro weve never even been to the moon. other than the russians

What is the point anyway? All that we need is a natural disaster on the Sun, like a tsunami or a giant sunquake that can throw enough hot material on earth to vaporize it.

>>3833750

>>3833743

Oh, you *know* I am. Don't be coy. I'm not.

>>3833765

Oh, thank goodness. Forgive the rudeness, it's just that we've been having threads where he pops out of nowhere and starts ranting about peak oil and 'I BET THE JEWS DID THIS'. His source is a theatre major.

>>3833750