Pie in the Sky. the cost alone would be monumental. I never understood the concept of populating other planets without oxygen and other such minutiae that is critical to infrastructure. Unless the gold mining operations were all robotic it just doesn’t seem plausible to me, at least with the technological level that we are currently experiencing.
In my limited and under-experienced (MBA,EE) humbled opinion (absolutely devoid of astronautics), I think we are at least a 100 years away from reaching anything remotely close to that lofty goal. Maybe a 150 years. Yet, everyone’s talking like it can happen tomorrow, we’re stalled reaching Mars at this juncture. And all of this stuff costs lots of money that we probably should prioritize to taking care of what’s wrong with our planet and populations that need bolstering.
-—yes-—starting with the energy expenditure to get “stuff” into space and then the fact that you need to get it back down makes all of this silly—
Pie in the Sky. the cost alone would be monumental.
because then they have to admit their ideas don’t work...………..
I agree with you.Most people don’t understand the problems associated with space travle. I don’t think we will see humans in space except for research and as daredevil stunts for the next 100 years. there are just to many issues that need to be solved. unfortunately lots of intelligent people have not looked at the current technical problems likwe.
1. cost of leaving a gravity well like earth.
2. effects of micro gravity on the human body.
3. the damage that cosmic radiation does on the human body.
4. trustworthiness of complicated technological devices used in space travle and in life support systems.
5 political will to spend the money to solve all theses problems.
Didn’t we learn anything from Alien? lol