Space stuff...

[Harry Bloomfield]

Don't be ridiculous, demand is so high we'd be waiting until the 2040s to launch anything.

I got three here, plus two beef pies in the freezer

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

They've done it in Star Trek.

Matt Damon also did it, and survived alone for months there.

 

[pete01]

Matt Damon also did it, and survived alone for months there.

Great film....True story apparently

 

[Highway Man]

I can imagine in the future that scientists will be able to alter our molecular structure and possibly remove the things that enable us to live on earth with gravity, possibly removing our skeleton and replacing it with muscles that allow us to cope with weightless environments better? It may sound a bit far fetched now but who knows what will be possible in the next 50 years.

 

[Brigadier]

Yes, but that's the point - heavy lifting it may be, but that's all it is - just doing what we already know how to do only a lot more of it. Crucially it's not things we don't know how to do or cannot be done, like FTL, wormholes, etc.

I've never invoked anything wild to send a crewed mission to Mars.

Just said that the scale and expense of the challenge makes it extremely unlikely in my lifetime (max. 50 more years).

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

replacing it with muscles that allow us to cope with weightless environments better? It may sound a bit far fetched now but who knows what will be possible in the next 50 years.

Why bother with muscles, just have your brain, floating in a glass jar?

 

[warey4life]

Matt Damon also did it, and survived alone for months there.

Ryan Gosling did it only recently.

 

[Highway Man]

Why bother with muscles, just have your brain, floating in a glass jar?

That is another good possibility. I nnever actually thought of that. You could have more crew due to the small footprint that would bring along with a much smaller craft.

 

[pete01]

Ryan Gosling did it only recently.

Any good that film? (Hail Mary) Might have a watch tomorrow

 

[aveatry]

The laws of physics are just man made constraints

 

[pete01]

The laws of physics are just man made constraints

Good point maybe aliens have different laws?

 

[Highway Man]

The laws of physics are just man made constraints

Exactly

 

[morqthana]

The laws of physics are just man made constraints

They're really not.

 

[Highway Man]

They're really not.

Of course they are, lots of things defy the laws of physics

 

[pete01]

They're really not.

Who thought them up then?