The funny thing is, there is no proof that it is habitable. It might be, but might not. Spending all of our fortunes and planning to go in about 2 years, on a manned mission to a planet that we don't know anything about, well, it's kind of dumb.
Secondly, it seems people ignored this:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/...d-nearby-star/
There's much closer planets that could also be habitable.
Also, agentmax, that's the first thing that i've seen you post that actually makes sense. If we plan on reaching a planet light years away, it's quite possible that we would need to start a civilization within the ship, and if the first generation can't reach the planet in time, their children/grandchildren might.
Secondly, it seems people ignored this:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/...d-nearby-star/
There's much closer planets that could also be habitable.
Also, agentmax, that's the first thing that i've seen you post that actually makes sense. If we plan on reaching a planet light years away, it's quite possible that we would need to start a civilization within the ship, and if the first generation can't reach the planet in time, their children/grandchildren might.
inq.
Originally Posted by ImmortalCow
North Korea will be scrubbed from the face of the earth if they ever try anything really dangerous. I wouldn't worry too much about them.
I agree fully. They Japs are pretty much on their own. As soon as they try to start a war everyone will be on them like moths to a light. They can start the war. But nearly every other country will end it.
We're all going to Hell, we may as well go out in style
Death is a promise, and your life is a fucking lie
Death is a promise, and your life is a fucking lie
Originally Posted by Dr_Strangelove
There are more important and immediately beneficial things that can be done with the immense money, time and manpower that such a project will cost. It took around 10 years of testing and development using the finest minds of a generation along with $200 billion to put a man on the moon. Although yes, a lot of important technological advancements were made as a side effect, that does not mean that said discoveries couldn't possibly have been made without it. I think that the investment would have been better placed in the US school system. Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to live in a world where Americans are all educated as well as Finns?
Lol Strangelove saying dumb things again huh.
Do you even understand the kind of economic returns that investment in to NASA has?
The problem with American schooling is not "they havn't pumped enough money in to it", it's a political and social problem, Americans still think it's 'cool' to do badly in school and not study. You really think that you can fix it just by pumping in money?
Originally Posted by Dr_Strangelove
Do you genuinely believe that? If so I don't think you're able to grasp how hideously complex and dangerous such a mission would be. But then, like I said before it is pointless for anyone except for people who work at NASA/Roscosmos/CNSA to speculate on such matters because it will not be happening in our lifetime.
http://www.space.com/9233-nasa-trans...direction.html
"In 2010, a bill was signed in the United States discontinuing plans for a manned mission to the Moon by 2020, and instead, authorizing manned missions to an asteroid in 2025 and to the planet Mars by the 2030s."
> not within our lifetime
> 2030s
You better hurry up and die Strangelove.
"Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to live in a world where Americans are all educated as well as Finns?"
Considering how ignorant your post was, I loled. Please stop posting, you are shaming your country.
Originally Posted by Regent101
Strangelove has a good point though..
But he didn't have any good points in the first place, plus as I just said he was wrong about practically everything he said...
Or was this sarcasm?
EDIT: Oh yeah, this happened recently;
http://news.discovery.com/space/warp...ss-120917.html
More progress on FTL travel, coming soon.
Last edited by ImmortalCow; Jan 8, 2013 at 03:53 PM.
