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>It was only six years to go from the first multi-person spacecraft and first spacewalk to the first space station. Yeah that's my entire point, technological
by suddenlybananas 1y ago
>It was only six years to go from the first multi-person spacecraft and first spacewalk to the first space station.
Yeah that's my entire point, technological process doesn't have a constant rate of acceleration. Some advances are quickly made one after another and others lag and take a very long time.
- Dylan16807 1y agoHow long do you think it would have taken to get a permanent moon presence if we kept up Apollo level funding indefinitely with that as the main goal? And since I only said "plausible", let's go with 80th-90th percentile best case scenario. Even if technological progress stopped we could have launched enough parts to assemble a colony structure.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoI'm not sure we would have one today. Maybe a token presence but definitely not the moon colony dreams of the 60s.
- Dylan16807 1y agoA token colony is still a colony. If you meant a specific size I wish you had been more clear upfront.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoA colony typically refers to a place where people permanently live and are colonising, e.g. setting up state structures, having children, etc.
- Dylan16807 1y agoWhich could be 20 permanent residents and 10 non-permanent slots. I don't think that requires too grand of a structure.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoThis is splitting hairs, but I was envisaging something more like the ISS but on the moon. A far cry from the 50s/60s dream of a grill and white picket fence on the moon.