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> "I think we'll see human activity in space increase by an order of magnitude over the next decade." However, while I don't disagree with the potential for sp
by dantillberg 11y ago
> "I think we'll see human activity in space increase by an order of magnitude over the next decade."
However, while I don't disagree with the potential for space activity in the coming decade(s), it makes a pale comparison to the first two-thirds of the 20th century, where humans went from largely ever living on the surface of the Earth (plus or minus 100 meters or so, for the eternity of humankind) to flying on a rocket to the f*ing MOON.
- Kinnard 11y agoWe will make it to Mars within the Century.
- akiselev 11y agoThat's exactly what everyone thought when we landed on the moon.
- Kinnard 11y agoReally? This century like within the succeeding hundred years or that century like the 20th Century? I'd be curious to learn more.
- bradneuberg 11y agoNASA had a plan in the early 70s to have humans on the surface of Mars by 1990. When Nixon canceled the Apollo and Saturn five missions, all that early planning went into the trashbin.
- Kinnard 11y agoHmmm, sounds like it was riding on government funding and not on the profit motive that doesn't speak to any technical encumbrances . . . I'd bet on the profit motive.