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Columbus had a hard time finding anyone to fund his idea of traveling west to seek India until the new monarchs in Spain decided it was cheap enough to risk and
by coldcode 6y ago
Columbus had a hard time finding anyone to fund his idea of traveling west to seek India until the new monarchs in Spain decided it was cheap enough to risk and he found a whole new land mass (sadly to loot). People have always taken risks and gone to new places and found things not imagined by others. Space will be no different; the only difference is we already know a lot about it. Whether governments or industry or some crackpot does it, it will happen because someone wants to try.
- laverya 6y agoColumbus had a hard time finding anyone to fund his suicide expedition. Everyone (well, everyone sufficiently well educated) knew the Earth was round, and knew the approximate size. Columbus mistranslated units and ended up with a world about half the circumference of Earth, putting the far east in easy reach. NASA actually has an article on this [0]. Had the Americas not existed, Columbus would have had had to make his way back with no fresh water or food, and a high risk of scurvy. 0: https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Scolumb.htm https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Scolumb.htm
- Udik 6y ago> Space will be no different Space is different. The analogy between the discoveries of new continents and the exploration of space is terribly naive. I would understand if it came from a 12 years old with his bedroom full of sci-fi novels, but not from grown ups.