Posted on 07/19/2010 6:09:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis
One thing everyone can agree on with respect to the Obama Administration’s intention to cancel the Constellation program: it has triggered a vigorous debate about the future of NASA and the role that organization will play in humanity’s next steps into the solar system. Numerous articles posted in The Space Review have illuminated the scope of this debate, from its fundamental assumptions about the value of space exploration for the United States and its people, to the variety of ways in which a post-shuttle program of human exploration beyond LEO might be carried out.
(Excerpt) Read more at thespacereview.com ...
Does anyone know if it might be possible in the not-too-distant future to communicate instantaneously from Earth to robots on Mars using entangled particles?
The idea would be to quantumly entangle a large number of particles, half of which stay on earth and the other half flown to Mars. Changes in the states of the particles on Mars caused by what enters a lens of an advanced camera could cause corresponding changes to the entangled particles here on earth resulting in instantaneous communication.
Is this even theoretically possible?
After all we do use arabic numerals, and the burkha was the original prototype for the spacesuit.
There are some that claim the Arabs gave us the number zero, and others that claim that Islam has given us our current Zero in Office.
Yes, but do Muslims feel good about themselves... Must get priorities straight...
As long as everyone understands that it’s these critical partnerships that are the important thing, not human spaceflight or space exploration in general.
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