RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 6, 2021 at 2:13 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2021 at 2:17 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(December 5, 2021 at 10:34 pm)Fireball Wrote:(December 5, 2021 at 10:30 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: I might have known this without realising I knew it.
That because there is no gravity in space, pens will not work.
I once saw that that NASA spent $millions to solve this problem. The Russians just used pencils.
...and we STILL "won" the space race.And then lost it, but will we win it again? Idunno.
Probably because of my love of Scfi that I've always thought it's exceedingly difficult if not impossible for a single country to have a successful long term space programme. I would define 'successful' as establishing mutually beneficial relations with the existing population, exploiting its natural resources or colonising it. I have no idea of the long terms chances of establishing a planetary government on our planet
I have no idea exactly how realistic is the idea of colonising Mars. Before the concept was floated here, I've always thought we need a Goldilocks planet in order to colonise a planet
Still probably because of too much sci fi, I have always thought of the space race and crafts as rather primitive when considering the notion of interstellar travel.
