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Wander? From earth into the rest of the solar system? If we'd grown up anywhere else in this solar system, then the place, the dream destination, in this sol

by graycat 12y ago

Wander? From earth into the rest of the solar system? If we'd grown up anywhere else in this solar system, then the place, the dream destination, in this solar system would be earth. Since I'm already here, no way do I want to leave! Send some machines to gather some data and transmit it back to us here on earth? Fine. Maybe terrific. Go there, in person? For me, no way!

interesting_guy 12y ago
Don't you like visiting exotic places?
hereonbusiness 12y ago
If someone offered me the chance to travel the solar system, watch the sun rise on mars, jump off vertical cliffs on a moon, see jupiter and saturn up close, ... I would do it in a heartbeat Do I think human space travel is feasible or even necessary at least at this point in time? No, not by a long shot. Machines can do a better job and will probably always be able to do it better if technology keeps advancing. Machines don't need air, water, food, living space, and that's some of the stuff needed just to keep us alive in an hostile environment, all resources can be instead focused on the mission itself. I think that people tend to forget that we don't just happen live on planet Earth, we where born by it, molded by it :) If we'd evolved anywhere else then that place would probably be by far the best possible habitat for us too. Although If we could somehow get rid of the human body, just take a brain, equip it with a neural interface of some kind and put it in a water tank ...
- graycat 12y ago
  Other than earth? I might like to visit there, but I don't want to live there! But with the realities, as you outlined, of visiting, really I wouldn't want to do that, either. Mars? Okay, send a lot of robots. Let the robots get a good base going. Let the robots mine Mars to get fuel for return trips. Let the robots come and go until it all seems highly reliable. Go to the trouble to get enough mass for cosmic ray protection. Let some high risk takers go and return. Then, maybe, maybe, maybe I'd consider a visit! But that whole scenario is not nearly realistic at all soon.
kylegordon 12y ago
If you'd grown up or evolved elsewhere in the solar system, there's a high chance Earth would be inhospitable to you, just like Mars is to us. Your dream home would be Saturn, or Venus, etc. The universe has a history of destroying the majority of life on Earth. It would be naive to think that statistics don't apply to the human race.

by graycat 12y ago

interesting_guy 12y ago

Don't you like visiting exotic places?

hereonbusiness 12y ago

If someone offered me the chance to travel the solar system, watch the sun rise on mars, jump off vertical cliffs on a moon, see jupiter and saturn up close, ... I would do it in a heartbeat Do I think human space travel is feasible or even necessary at least at this point in time? No, not by a long shot. Machines can do a better job and will probably always be able to do it better if technology keeps advancing. Machines don't need air, water, food, living space, and that's some of the stuff needed just to keep us alive in an hostile environment, all resources can be instead focused on the mission itself. I think that people tend to forget that we don't just happen live on planet Earth, we where born by it, molded by it :) If we'd evolved anywhere else then that place would probably be by far the best possible habitat for us too. Although If we could somehow get rid of the human body, just take a brain, equip it with a neural interface of some kind and put it in a water tank ...

graycat 12y ago
Other than earth? I might like to visit there, but I don't want to live there! But with the realities, as you outlined, of visiting, really I wouldn't want to do that, either. Mars? Okay, send a lot of robots. Let the robots get a good base going. Let the robots mine Mars to get fuel for return trips. Let the robots come and go until it all seems highly reliable. Go to the trouble to get enough mass for cosmic ray protection. Let some high risk takers go and return. Then, maybe, maybe, maybe I'd consider a visit! But that whole scenario is not nearly realistic at all soon.

kylegordon 12y ago

If you'd grown up or evolved elsewhere in the solar system, there's a high chance Earth would be inhospitable to you, just like Mars is to us. Your dream home would be Saturn, or Venus, etc. The universe has a history of destroying the majority of life on Earth. It would be naive to think that statistics don't apply to the human race.