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In my opinion, if we really want a presence off of earth we'd be better off building larger and larger space habitats and bootstrapping a mining industry in spa
by godshatter 11mo ago
In my opinion, if we really want a presence off of earth we'd be better off building larger and larger space habitats and bootstrapping a mining industry in space.
- Night_Thastus 11mo agoAgreed. Once it becomes commercially viable to start building things in space, it'll take off on its own. There will be constant pressure to build faster, safer, more capable craft. Whether that will lead to something like FTL isn't possible to know, but at the very least it's a step towards a space-faring civilization.
- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> if we really want a presence off of earth we'd be better off building larger and larger space habitats and bootstrapping a mining industry in space This turns entirely on how human biology works in zero versus low gravity. (Same for spin versus natural, or linear, gravity.) The experiments we need to be doing is building and launching space stations and planetary bases for mice.
- airstrike 11mo agoI can't wait for all the studies making the news that end with "in mice in space"
- Iolaum 11mo agoDaniel Suarez [1] has written a book where he imagined how this could happen (Delta-v) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Suarez_(author) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Suarez_(author) P.S. Read a lot of his book, great author
- pavel_lishin 11mo agoI loved Daemon, and FreedomTM.
- burnt-resistor 11mo agoYep, so long as there are clear, positive incentives or it could become a corrupt, expensive boondoggle depriving ordinary people on Earth. And Mars ain't it except underground. Nit: "earth" is dirt, but "Earth" is always capitalized when referring to the celestial body we inhabit.