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The way we are talking about space travel is probably the same way the people of Florence, Italy spoke of Da Vinci flying machines, submarine and his armored "c
by SCAQTony 11y ago
The way we are talking about space travel is probably the same way the people of Florence, Italy spoke of Da Vinci flying machines, submarine and his armored "car."
When you consider the dangers of just getting to Mars and how long that project will take, I suspect we are a century or two away.
http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/armoured-car.aspx http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/armoured-car.aspx
- novalis78 11y agoIt was already possible in the 90s: http://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Plan-Settle-Planet/dp/145160811X http://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Plan-Settle-Planet/dp/145160...
- notahacker 11y agoMy first thought was I can think of many more pressing and immediate use cases for hacking DNA. Or by analogy, it's a bit like articles at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution explaining just how useful the steam engine could prove for building armoured cars.
- bootload 11y ago"When you consider the dangers of just getting to Mars and how long that project will take, I suspect we are a century or two away." Compare how dangerous it was to set man on the Moon in the 60s to getting to Mars. Its just risk. You can manage risk. Getting there isn't the real problem. Staying alive is.
- SCAQTony 11y agoThe Moon shot was an awesome feat. If we threw our Iraq/Syria/Afghanistan budget perhaps we could overcome the logistical challenges, such as the massive amount of weight we would be sending. The food bulk, return fuel, zero-g health effects, cosmic ray brain damage and timing the return voyage.