Do you realize?
How much everything is going to change? Technology has been progressing at an exponential rate. Nanotech is going to change everything. Can you imagine it? Buildings made of diamond. Towers higher than the clouds on rail thin columns made of some steel-like substance stonger than anything we know now. Cables like spiderweb supporting everything, or anything, entire buildings suspended from other buildings.
Or space? What about space? Why aren't we on Mars now? I'd go. What engineer or scientist wouldn't be on that trip, one way or no? Fuel is of course the problem. I mean, currently we could probably get there. But you have to carry so much to start a colony. There is also the self sufficiency issue. I mean solar power sure. But water is the real issue. Currently we can only reclaim so much, and how quickly, for how much power?
Will we reach the stars or the atoms first?
The stars. Well, not really. Mars certainly. Jupiter never. Saturn yeah. Venus probably not, unless there is something worth the effort there. Again, not likely. Of course we'll go to Uranus. How could we not?
You know how we can do it right? Nuclear bombs. Currently it is the only technology that could allow us to approach anywhere near relativistic speeds. It's also probably the most compact fuel source. It's kind of funny how newer and newer things lead back to old things. A ship, with a giant shield, propelled by nuclear explosions. It's really like fireworks, although hopefully without the bang on the other end. Granted, we don't really have anything to contain that kind of force. I mean it would basically have to be a bottle with an opening, bomb goes off inside and hopefully the ship goes in the opposite direction instead of all directions. Think Diet Coke and Mentos.
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure how pressure waves work in space. I guess for the best effect we'd have to put some air in there or something. Not enough matter to propel us the other way.
So yeah, nanotech would make it significantly easier. I mean we'd have our shield. Possibly better fuel. Certainly better bombs, if nothing else. But we could start. So easily at that. I don't think the general public has an appreciation for how many scientists and engineers would work for food and housing if they got to go to Mars. Or anywhere. Test run on the moon? I'm there.
It's what we all dreamed of sometime. I don't necessarily mean you, I mean me. I'm becoming more and more suspicious that there are people at least partially like me out there as well.
Then again, I can't remember the last time I've had a conversation like this. Which is why I am having it with a computer instead. I'm tempted to say that real people don't have conversations like this. With 99% of people it's hard to get them to argue with you. Hard to make them think, to make yourself think. There are very few people that I can get to go along with me. Talking theoretically about the future is the same as making up stories for strangers at the mall. Assumptions based on assumptions based on theories based on observations. It's fun, you should try it.
Or space? What about space? Why aren't we on Mars now? I'd go. What engineer or scientist wouldn't be on that trip, one way or no? Fuel is of course the problem. I mean, currently we could probably get there. But you have to carry so much to start a colony. There is also the self sufficiency issue. I mean solar power sure. But water is the real issue. Currently we can only reclaim so much, and how quickly, for how much power?
Will we reach the stars or the atoms first?
The stars. Well, not really. Mars certainly. Jupiter never. Saturn yeah. Venus probably not, unless there is something worth the effort there. Again, not likely. Of course we'll go to Uranus. How could we not?
You know how we can do it right? Nuclear bombs. Currently it is the only technology that could allow us to approach anywhere near relativistic speeds. It's also probably the most compact fuel source. It's kind of funny how newer and newer things lead back to old things. A ship, with a giant shield, propelled by nuclear explosions. It's really like fireworks, although hopefully without the bang on the other end. Granted, we don't really have anything to contain that kind of force. I mean it would basically have to be a bottle with an opening, bomb goes off inside and hopefully the ship goes in the opposite direction instead of all directions. Think Diet Coke and Mentos.
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure how pressure waves work in space. I guess for the best effect we'd have to put some air in there or something. Not enough matter to propel us the other way.
So yeah, nanotech would make it significantly easier. I mean we'd have our shield. Possibly better fuel. Certainly better bombs, if nothing else. But we could start. So easily at that. I don't think the general public has an appreciation for how many scientists and engineers would work for food and housing if they got to go to Mars. Or anywhere. Test run on the moon? I'm there.
It's what we all dreamed of sometime. I don't necessarily mean you, I mean me. I'm becoming more and more suspicious that there are people at least partially like me out there as well.
Then again, I can't remember the last time I've had a conversation like this. Which is why I am having it with a computer instead. I'm tempted to say that real people don't have conversations like this. With 99% of people it's hard to get them to argue with you. Hard to make them think, to make yourself think. There are very few people that I can get to go along with me. Talking theoretically about the future is the same as making up stories for strangers at the mall. Assumptions based on assumptions based on theories based on observations. It's fun, you should try it.