Right, just as soon as captain Spock goes back in time thru a black hole and gives the young Scotty his future formula for a inter-planetary transporter. Then we wont need rocket engines or fuel anymore. We can just travel there in seconds.
“We only lack the will to do it...”
AHHH, the collectivize ‘we’, we selfish taxpayers.
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-gigantic-j1407b-larger-heavier-saturn.html
A ring system 200 times bigger than Saturns??
Who wouldn’t buy a ticket to see that??
It wasn’t all that long ago on this forum that a number of people were screaming for the de-funding of NASA and saying that nothing good ever came from it. I am not a big fan of NASA and frankly think it should have never been created but that is history. We should have continued with exploration and built a colony or base on the moon... but short sighted government and the whinging few stopped that. Now we have lost the ability to build the rocket motors that powered the Saturn 5 rockets to the moon and back and that is the real sad part.... had we, the United States, continued to lead the way into space we might have already settled colonies on the moon and have stations out in space.
“...“We only lack the will to do it...”...
WhiskeyX, You lead; we’ll follow. Also... you put up the funds.
“AHHH, the collectivize ‘we’, we selfish taxpayers.”
No, government isn’t competent to handle colonization efforts. That is ultimately a task for private enterprise and individuals as soon as they can gain access to the frontier.