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I just want to live long enough to see a ship, intended for long-term use, assembled in orbit.
by supportengineer 2y ago
I just want to live long enough to see a ship, intended for long-term use, assembled in orbit.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoInteresting. And I'm thinking I want to see a permanent lunar base but also, "Where does it end?" Humans walked on the Moon in my lifetime. I should be contented with that.
- lastofthemojito 2y ago> Humans walked on the Moon in my lifetime. I should be contented with that. I'm apparently younger than you, and humans have not walked on the moon in my lifetime. I'm discontented by that.
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoSame, I’m terribly disappointed that I can’t simply walk on the moon. Parents generation really dropped the fuckin ball there eh
- nyokodo 2y ago> Parents generation really dropped the … ball there Really probably your grandparents or great grandparents depending on your age. Most Americans born after the moon landings had boomer or gen-x parents. All the men who walked on the moon and the majority of those in high office until roughly the 1990s were silent generation, the GI generation or older. They’re the ones who had the power to keep the space program going but didn’t. Once your parents had significant influence the Apollo program was long gone, the know how to build the hardware was gone, they would have had an even harder time than us rebuilding it because the commercial impetus wasn’t there and we didn’t yet have insane internet billionaires competing for launch contracts.
- jakswa 2y agoI don't recall a ball, but they dropped a feather and a hammer (the gravity experiment).
- aksss 2y agohttps://amgreatness.com/2024/06/03/the-destructive-generation-proving-americas-weakest-link/ https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/03/the-destructive-generatio... In between the Greatest Generation and Gen X - "Baby Boomer" was a name, but Destructive Generation seems to fit pretty well.
- brandall10 2y agoIt's wild to think this is true for anyone under the half century mark.
- jononor 2y agoSoon there will be no living humans who have walked on the moon :/
- sneak 2y agoThere’s no money or geopolitical strategic importance in it, and “we” didn’t go to the moon, a saber-rattling warmongering government did using oodles of tax money and repurposed ICBMs (Mercury/Gemini). I think perhaps Dr Strangelove is more educational about the cultural climate around the Apollo program than almost any other media. Hopefully with vastly reduced cost to LEO it will be put within the reach of normal people who aren’t engaged in the dance of WW3 nuclear brinksmanship.
- NotSammyHagar 2y agoI want to live long enough to see a viable test of larger spaceships that could send humans to Mars. I really want to live long enough to discover evidence of at least microbial life elsewhere in the solar system - Mars seems like the obvious place we can reach with a good chance for it be possible. I know there's amazingly water vapor around Europa, that's so much more remote. I think about 30 years should lead to more exploration of Mars, and maybe multiple landers andn robots getting there from here, maybe even a return trip. (human travel to Mars feels so far out, even if Starship works out in the next 10 years).
- grondilu 2y agoWell, isn't it what the ISS is?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> isn't it what the ISS is? No, it has no propulsion system. That is the difference between a ship and a station.
- moffkalast 2y agoangry Cygnus noises
- smolder 2y agoIt does have thrusters used for orbital correction about monthly, (and maybe dodging debris here and there,) but it's fair to say that system is not for taking trips or anything.
- TechPlasma 2y agoI think there are thrusters on the Russian side of the station. They aren't large but they move the stations orientation for docking sometimes. (And cartwheels for fun and horror)
- indoordin0saur 2y agoI just want to live long enough to see Venus terraformed into an ocean and forest covered paradise.
- projektfu 2y agoNeed a planet spinner if that's going to happen.
- ben_w 2y agoA lot of mirrors in a 24h orbit might be easier. Still, even then it will take, what, about a century to get rid of the CO2? (Does it even count as an "atmosphere" at ground level, given that it's past the critical point and the distinction between liquid and gas phases no longer exists?)
- mjevans 2y agoIf going that far, use the sunlight for power / in space solar ovens. Just make sure to limit how much power goes to Venus because that will increase the net energy in that envelope.
- ben_w 2y agoOne of the options is to use the mirrors to boil off the atmosphere, the other is to keep the sunlight away for so long the atmosphere almost entirely condenses and can then be paved over; either way, it was a long wait.
- cyberax 2y agoYou can't "boil off" the atmosphere. You need to accelerate the gas molecules past the planetary escape velocity, otherwise they'll just cool down and drop back onto the surface. There's no realistic way to evacuate that much gas (the surface pressure on Venus is almost 100 atmospheres!). One option is first to cover the surface of Venus with water, by first creating giant orbital mirrors to let the atmosphere to cool. Then you can sequester the carbon dioxide as elemental carbon under the water surface. Oxygen released in the process will be naturally consumed by all the underoxidized minerals present on Venus.
- javiramos 2y agoI just want to live long enough to see a human walk on Mars.
- aunty_helen 2y agoWhat’s stopping you from helping to build it? Jobs in space tech exist. They need smart motivated people.
- tomcam 2y agoHow long do you think for them to get to the point where they can carry all the raw materials up there?
- dyauspitr 2y agoThat’s probably just a handful of starship trips of cargo
- FeepingCreature 2y agoPersonally, I want to live long enough to hit life extension escape velocity. :)
- aftbit 2y agoYeah we bemoan how short-sighted people are, but that's because we only live for a handful of decades. Think of the kind of progress that we could achieve if people were free to follow their dreams for centuries, alongside the kind of respect for the life and nature that would be necessary to live as a citizen of the world for that long.
- pasabagi 2y agoOr, immortal Joseph Stalin having breakfast with immortal Richard Nixon, while deciding who gets sent to the gulags today.
- aftbit 2y agoTrue, today time is the greatest equalizer. Even the rich and powerful will eventually kick the bucket and leave the future for others. If life extension takes off, the rich and powerful may live forever, while the less fortunate may still be mortal.
- qwytw 2y ago> Richard Nixon That's a rather weird person to pick, even considering that it's probably a Futurama reference...
- aftbit 2y agoNixon - now more than ever.
- emeril 2y agoI'd settle for seeing my children grow up at least a bit!
- imtringued 2y agoThat is exactly what the cislunar transporter is going to be. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2023/nasa-moon-missions-landing-blue-origin-artemis/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2023/nas...
- voidUpdate 2y agoI want to live long enough that I can go and see space without having to give someone a huge amount of money