Is it really a good idea to explore space?

[ScienceRocks]

Bear and a friend hunting for dinner. They don't need no effin science!!!

hahaha

 

[Wyatt earp]

Bear and a friend hunting for dinner. They don't need no effin science!!!

hahaha

You can't comprehend can you?

Space exploration by the human race can knock out entire ecosystem on an entire planet. Just by stepping foot on them..

 

[westwall]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Won't happen. Mankind NEEDS to get off of this rock and expand into space. It is essential to the survival of the human race. So long as we are stuck here, on this planet we can be wiped out by a asteroid impact or a nearby star going nova. We HAVE to get out there among the stars.

 

[Mindful]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Won't happen. Mankind NEEDS to get off of this rock and expand into space. It is essential to the survival of the human race. So long as we are stuck here, on this planet we can be wiped out by a asteroid impact or a nearby star going nova. We HAVE to get out there among the stars.

I can't see that happening, in our present physical form. We don't live long enough, unless we could develop warp speed, a la Star Trek.

This is why the notion of uploading the human mind onto some robotic form, and the research being done, is so promising.

This is a topic which interests me, and is covered in "Childhood's End". (Arthur C Clarke)

 

[westwall]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Won't happen. Mankind NEEDS to get off of this rock and expand into space. It is essential to the survival of the human race. So long as we are stuck here, on this planet we can be wiped out by a asteroid impact or a nearby star going nova. We HAVE to get out there among the stars.

I can't see that happening, in our present physical form. We don't live long enough, unless we could develop warp speed, a la Star Trek.

This is why the notion of uploading the human mind onto some robotic form, and the research being done, is so promising.

This is a topic which interests me, and is covered in "Childhood's End". (Arthur C Clarke)

There have been plans for colony ships that are designed to be multi generational. It's not hard. It's just really, really expensive. The new ion drive that has been tested would make the colonization even easier than the plasma pinch engines that were the original design spec powerplants.

 

[Mindful]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Won't happen. Mankind NEEDS to get off of this rock and expand into space. It is essential to the survival of the human race. So long as we are stuck here, on this planet we can be wiped out by a asteroid impact or a nearby star going nova. We HAVE to get out there among the stars.

I can't see that happening, in our present physical form. We don't live long enough, unless we could develop warp speed, a la Star Trek.

This is why the notion of uploading the human mind onto some robotic form, and the research being done, is so promising.

This is a topic which interests me, and is covered in "Childhood's End". (Arthur C Clarke)

There have been plans for colony ships that are designed to be multi generational. It's not hard. It's just really, really expensive. The new ion drive that has been tested would make the colonization even easier than the plasma pinch engines that were the original design spec powerplants.

This sounds like the Painted Lady butterfly, which breeds and reproduces during its migration from Africa to Britain. By the time it reaches its destination, it's already 1st or second, maybe more, generation butterfly.

 

[alang1216]

You can't comprehend can you?

Space exploration by the human race can knock out entire ecosystem on an entire planet. Just by stepping foot on them..

Seems unlikely to me. Does anyone really believe that a virus that requires a specific cell with a specific DNA will be able to reproduce on another world with alien life? The only danger alien life might face is competition from earth life but it would seem that aliens have had quite a long time to evolve in their ecosystem and would likely out compete most earth life. On the other hand, if it so primitive it can't complete it is probably only a scientific curiosity and not worth saving, just studying.

 

[MaryL]

Life is a virus. Let's do this! Let's see the universe before we go extinct.

 

[Steven_R]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Considering how unlikely it is that their biochemistry and our biochemistry would be compatible, I think we're safe from alien diseases and they're safe from ours.

Beyond that, it's great to explore, if for no other reason than to satisfy our natural curiosity about the universe around us.

 

[thanatos144]

Why the hell is there always a pussy to afraid to leave the home?

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[rdean]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Or they wipe us out.

If we can get into space, we can figure out how not to kill each other. It's those, mostly right wingernuts, who don't believe in science who want to do all the killing.

 

[thanatos144]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Or they wipe us out.

If we can get into space, we can figure out how not to kill each other. It's those, mostly right wingernuts, who don't believe in science who want to do all the killing.

You celebrate killing babies so we all know who the true evil fucks are.

 

[Bonzi]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Space program is a total waste of time and money.

 

[mamooth]

I'm more concerned about humans being the ones who get wiped out. SETI has found nothing. It's awful quiet out there, and that's a little creepy. It's like driving into a new town, and seeing no signs of life at all.

So, some possibilities:

1. Humans won the cosmic lottery, and were the first ones in the galaxy to develop technology.

2. Technology is inherently suicidal. Every race that develops it eventually destroys themselves. Maybe a nanotech catastrophe, maybe something else.

3. Advanced civilizations exist, but don't use radio, because they've evolved beyond the need for it.

4. Advanced civilizations exist, and they're shielding us, because we're the ones being protected by a prime directive. Or a quarantine, or we're considered to be zoo.

5. Many advanced civilizations have existed, but a few xenophobic civilizations wiped out all the friendly ones, and now all who remain are laying low and hiding, shielding their radio emissions. If they spotted us, they'd wipe us out before we became a threat.

 

[Mindful]

If human beings are ever to colonise other planets – which might become necessary for the survival of the species, given how far we have degraded this one – they will almost certainly have to use generation ships: spaceships that will support not just those who set out on them, but also their descendants. The vast distances between Earth and the nearest habitable planets, combined with the fact that we are unlikely ever to invent a way of travelling that exceeds the speed of light, ensures that many generations will be born, raised and die on board such a ship before it arrives at its destination.

A generation ship would have to be a whole society in microcosm, with hospitals and schools, living quarters and perhaps entertainment districts, a security force, maybe even a judiciary. It would need to be able to provide food for its crew, and that might require agriculture or aquaculture, perhaps even domestic animals (which might also be needed for the colonisation effort). Its design therefore presents a major challenge: not just to engineers but also to social scientists. How should the crew be selected and the environment structured to minimise interpersonal conflict? What size of population is optimal for it to remain committed to the single overarching project of colonising a new planet without too much of a risk of self-destructive boredom or excessive narrowing of the gene pool? Does mental health require that a quasi-natural environment be recreated within the ship (with trees, grass and perhaps undomesticated birds and small animals)?

Would it be immoral to send out a generation starship? | Aeon Ideas

 

[thanatos144]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Space program is a total waste of time and money.

So give back your flat screen monitor and cds and dvds.

 

[thanatos144]

Ever notice the pattern of people saying it is us HUMANS that are the problem??? as if all we will ever do is rape murder and rob and if we reach the stars that all we will ever do.... All of you who think this way should do the universe a favor and end your life otherwise shut the fuck up and stop folding me in with assholes like you and Hitler.

 

[Mindful]

Ever notice the pattern of people saying it is us HUMANS that are the problem??? as if all we will ever do is rape murder and rob and if we reach the stars that all we will ever do.... All of you who think this way should do the universe a favor and end your life otherwise shut the fuck up and stop folding me in with assholes like you and Hitler.

Is it some kind of redemption through self hatred?

 

[jon_berzerk]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were immune too,

actually that happened 3 years prior to Mayflower landing the Patuxet got wiped out in 1617 by English slavers carrying diseases

the colonists actually fed on food stores left behind by the Patuxet for the first few months

 

[defcon4]

Everyone knows what happened when the white man landed on Plymouth rock, we brought along diseases that we were emuned too, the natives were not.

What if an astrounants sweat wipes out an entire planets form of life with one drip?

Won't happen. Mankind NEEDS to get off of this rock and expand into space. It is essential to the survival of the human race. So long as we are stuck here, on this planet we can be wiped out by a asteroid impact or a nearby star going nova. We HAVE to get out there among the stars.

Send Matt as a trail blazer, I mean now....