RE: My Astro Photo Of The Day
November 22, 2010 at 2:30 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2010 at 2:34 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
I just recently saw Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock Collector's Edition on DVD and in its special features is a ~half-hour or so video on Terriforming and humans living on other planets. The video was made in 2002 and the thing that caught my attention was that the man said that the moon was barren and had no water.
It's funny how much things change in 8 years considering how great a prospect of human habitation the moon seems now. Also interesting was the mention of Mars having frozen water on it and being terriformable and the best place for human habitation. This is true, but it caught my attention because we didnt' technically know that with any certainty until fairly recently with the extremely detailed images from orbit and the combined findings of virtually every probe we've launched there in the past 8 years - most notably pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, and probably one or two others I'm forgetting at the moment.
I honestly hope we (humans) accomplish much much more in the next decade because those two targets appear to be more and more temping as permanent living establishments with each new discovery and advancement in engineering.
Also interesting is the prospect of floating cities inside of giant air balloons on Venus, though I would honestly prefer the planet to be terriformed as well. It would be much more difficult than Mars (or the other terrestrial planets and moons) but not impossible.
It's funny how much things change in 8 years considering how great a prospect of human habitation the moon seems now. Also interesting was the mention of Mars having frozen water on it and being terriformable and the best place for human habitation. This is true, but it caught my attention because we didnt' technically know that with any certainty until fairly recently with the extremely detailed images from orbit and the combined findings of virtually every probe we've launched there in the past 8 years - most notably pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, and probably one or two others I'm forgetting at the moment.
I honestly hope we (humans) accomplish much much more in the next decade because those two targets appear to be more and more temping as permanent living establishments with each new discovery and advancement in engineering.
Also interesting is the prospect of floating cities inside of giant air balloons on Venus, though I would honestly prefer the planet to be terriformed as well. It would be much more difficult than Mars (or the other terrestrial planets and moons) but not impossible.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
