I suspected as much, the “top” brand, given what I had read causing us to avoid it!
Do you really think anyone other than a tiny super-rich majority would have any chance of escaping from planet Earth when it dies? Frankly I’d rather die here than live out my days in a bubble on the moon with the likes of Elon Musk.
If you’re undecided, have a read of this:
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Perhaps this might be more prescient of our future off planet.
Willy
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Hitchiker’s Guide detailed a future where all the really useful people were recognised for their value to society and sent to colonise a new pkanet. (Specialists like telephone sanitisers…)
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Wasn’t it the lack of telephone sanitisers that caused the race to succumb to something?
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I agree with the trips to the moon being a waste of time money and scientific resourses. If some groups would like to inhabit an inhospitable and unlivable (for humans) planet, then just wait a while and do it here.
Build the domes here for when we, eventually, have driven the final nails into the lids of our eco-coffins.
No rockets or space shuttles required …
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I think there are other quite glaring reasons why we need to go to space and back to the moon. Sadly, the point I want to make has to end there unfinished and unelaborated. There is no way to dig into this topic in any meaningful sense without breaking forum rules.
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Life? Don’t talk to ME about life.
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I, for one, am 100% for space exploration.
One of humankind’s greatest features is our curiosity and how that drives advancement. Without that we would not have even been able to have this conversation.
Plus, many good things that were discovered were discovered by “accident” or the result of a previously unknown or misunderstood part of the natural world. And space exploration is a logical next step in this process. To not do it would mean we lessen our understanding of where we came from, which often leads to ideas and inventions that improve our lives here. To not do it also means we lose out of all of the “happy accidents” we are going to find on the way.
Plus it is a drop in a huge ocean of funding going towards finding new and interesting ways of destroying each other. If we truly wanted to improve life on this planet, perhaps we should stop funding wars and weapon production first. Then we may just have enough to sort out some of the issues we have here AND continue exploring the planets and stars.
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I tend to agree, but was trying to say that even if the human race does not end things here prematurely, the planet will become uninhabitable anyway. So exploration of our surroundings seems a necessity to me.
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Kept me in gainful employment for over forty years!
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Future colonisation is a long, long far ahead proposition. We will no doubt get trapped in our own burning hell before we get off the ground.
Although space exploration with probes and evermore stronger and sensitive means to collect data has rapidly increased in recent years.
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I read a very interesting scientific article a while back which spelled out in stark terms the huge level of infrastructure required on earth to support even the most minimal inhabitation on another planet.
G
This was the subject of a lunch time pub conversation yesterday.
I don’t mind what people or countries do with spare cash, but please spend it first on the poor in your own country.
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Except eat more of it!
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We could feed the poor with rocket. 2 problems solved!
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And you can say you often find it on the Lunchpad?
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Give me a good cos lettuce anyday. Rocket just proves you can fool most of the people all of the time…
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