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I think you are grossly underestimating how difficult it was to build a ship capable of traveling for a few days, landing at islands with no source of food or f

I think you are grossly underestimating how difficult it was to build a ship capable of traveling for a few days, landing at islands with no source of food or fresh water, and returning safely home 1300 years ago. The only thing on your list they didn't have to worry about was bringing along oxygen. Food? Water? Life support systems? Check. Check Check. The only difference is that early sea explorers were able to realize economic benefits incrementally. With space flight, the possibility of incremental economic viability is murky at best, and almost certainly improbable. But you honestly strike me as somebody who hasn't grown up on a coast. The ocean is a dangerous, dangerous place. So much so that even now we haven't come close to mastering it. Today, we're the 8th century vikings. Not the 14th. But there'd never have been 14th century vikings without the icremental achievements along the way...

dmfdmf 17y ago
"I think you are grossly underestimating how difficult it was to build a ship capable of traveling for a few days, landing at islands with no source of food or fresh water, and returning safely home 1300 years ago." If I am, so what? That is completely irrelevant to the point that space is inhospitable to human life and drastically different than setting sail to risky and unknown, far-away destinations on the earth. Nobody is going to get space-ship wrecked on an asteroid. They would be dead. "The only difference is that early sea explorers were able to realize economic benefits incrementally." That is far from the "only" difference and this statement is delusional if you actually believe it. I think that you've been reading too much science fiction.
- encoderer 17y ago
  Actually, I'm not much of a sci fi fan. You've been trying the "Sci Fi Dreamer Pander" three posts in a row now. Starting to get old. It's an obvious way of saying "you're affected by some dogma, I'm not." Nice try. Nobody is buying it.

dmfdmf 17y ago

"I think you are grossly underestimating how difficult it was to build a ship capable of traveling for a few days, landing at islands with no source of food or fresh water, and returning safely home 1300 years ago." If I am, so what? That is completely irrelevant to the point that space is inhospitable to human life and drastically different than setting sail to risky and unknown, far-away destinations on the earth. Nobody is going to get space-ship wrecked on an asteroid. They would be dead. "The only difference is that early sea explorers were able to realize economic benefits incrementally." That is far from the "only" difference and this statement is delusional if you actually believe it. I think that you've been reading too much science fiction.

encoderer 17y ago
Actually, I'm not much of a sci fi fan. You've been trying the "Sci Fi Dreamer Pander" three posts in a row now. Starting to get old. It's an obvious way of saying "you're affected by some dogma, I'm not." Nice try. Nobody is buying it.