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warey4life · Saturday at 10:52 AM

noseall said:
Correct. There is a lot of wishful thinking going on here.

Folk have just made a big deal about flying around the Moon. It has taken much planning, great effort, lots of set-backs and all the tech available we have today - to do a moon fly-past.

We are centuries away from putting a man on Mars.

They did it with less tech in the 60s.

warey4life · Saturday at 10:53 AM

Odds said:
Interstellar space travel is impossible.

At the moment it is.

IT Minion · Saturday at 10:56 AM

warey4life said:
They did it with less tech in the 60s.

If you read some of the books about how the Apollo hardware was developed there are so many major difficulties they had to struggle with that could be done with almost off the shelf hardware now.

motorbiking · Saturday at 11:00 AM

I wonder if a raspberry PI could do it? Probably.

motorbiking · Saturday at 11:02 AM

Highway Man said:
and book a mooring point on the sea of tranquility.

the Clangers closed the sea of tranquility after they heard Trump was invading.

noseall · Saturday at 11:04 AM

warey4life said:
They did it with less tech in the 60s.

And that's the point I'm making. Bizarrely, you have greater tech/computing power in the latest I Phone than in the tech used in the Apollo landings. And yet all we can do today is a Moon fly past.

The only thing that hasn't changed since then is biology and physics. That's why we are where we are.

aveatry · Saturday at 11:30 AM

I heard an interesting thing a few years ago in response to someone questioning why spend all this money in space. And they were reminded that not one penny was spent in space, it was all spent on earth

noseall · Saturday at 11:44 AM

warey4life said:
At the moment it is.

Do you think they will be able to modify humans or alter the laws of physics before the human race dies out, in order to travel to the nearest star?

Human beings will not be able to travel those distances. Not even close.

Highway Man · Saturday at 11:51 AM

noseall said:
Do you think they will be able to modify humans or alter the laws of physics before the human race dies out, in order to travel to the nearest star?

Human beings will not be able to travel those distances. Not even close.

I believe we will, I am sure humans will one day travel to the stars by the way of time warps.

IT Minion · Saturday at 11:53 AM

motorbiking said:
I wonder if a raspberry PI could do it? Probably.

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

King Billy · Saturday at 11:54 AM

Highway Man said:
I believe we will, I am sure humans will one day travel to the stars by the way of time warps.

I think the Rocky Horror show will be distant history by then

Highway Man · Saturday at 12:02 PM

King Billy said:
I think the Rocky Horror show will be distant history by then

You don't agree, who'd have thought? Pardon the pun

Brigadier · Saturday at 12:03 PM

warey4life said:
They did it with less tech in the 60s.

More tech doesn't necessarily equate to better.

Highway Man · Saturday at 12:04 PM

Brigadier said:
More tech doesn't necessarily equate to better.

I would prefer it in a space capsule tbh..

warey4life · Saturday at 12:13 PM

noseall said:
Do you think they will be able to modify humans or alter the laws of physics before the human race dies out, in order to travel to the nearest star?

Human beings will not be able to travel those distances. Not even close.

They've done it in Star Trek.

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