Good space news!
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talkpoliticsSpaceX has won a NASA contract to build spacecraft to fly astronauts to the Moon:
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/04/20/spacex-starship-nasa-artemis-moon-landing/
Good for Space X... and looking forward to seeing these new goals realised.
In other news,
NASA has successfully brought a helicopter to the Martian surface, the first controlled flight on another planet:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight
Which is of course totally awesome! And a wonderful spot of sunshine in days filled with so much negative.
We as the human race need to be getting this stuff done, as we will someday have to leave this rock permanently to survive as a species. It will take a long time and a lot of experimentation. The movie "Interstellar" comes to mind. That's certainly a possibility if you think about it. Though even if we don't need to leave to survive, we will need to leave to thrive.
Earth can probably support a far larger population than it does now at even at our current technological level with some minor changes in pollution, waste and efficiency. But there is still a limit. We'll be far better off developing the skills and technology to colonise space before we reach that limit than trying to do it later out of necessity. Out there is the unlimited space, resources and energy that will allow for a longer-term survival of the species and our civilisation. We just have to reach for it.
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/04/20/spacex-starship-nasa-artemis-moon-landing/
Good for Space X... and looking forward to seeing these new goals realised.
In other news,
NASA has successfully brought a helicopter to the Martian surface, the first controlled flight on another planet:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight
Which is of course totally awesome! And a wonderful spot of sunshine in days filled with so much negative.
We as the human race need to be getting this stuff done, as we will someday have to leave this rock permanently to survive as a species. It will take a long time and a lot of experimentation. The movie "Interstellar" comes to mind. That's certainly a possibility if you think about it. Though even if we don't need to leave to survive, we will need to leave to thrive.
Earth can probably support a far larger population than it does now at even at our current technological level with some minor changes in pollution, waste and efficiency. But there is still a limit. We'll be far better off developing the skills and technology to colonise space before we reach that limit than trying to do it later out of necessity. Out there is the unlimited space, resources and energy that will allow for a longer-term survival of the species and our civilisation. We just have to reach for it.
