Back on track.
I think the best way to ensure the survival of our species is to spread our population out into the solar system/galaxy/universe. However it's simply ineffecient to do so now. The cheapest space travel, which is the casual dance through our atmosphere before hurtling back downward is still outrageously expensive. We would have to both unite as a species towards the common goal, and create cheaper and more effecient ways to travel space.
Using our current technology, it would take upwards of 50,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star outside of our solar system. We have a lot of growing up to do technologically. However it's my belief that as long as we are using our science to make easier ways of killing each other, we will continue at a dreadfully slow pace towards the stars. This is a massive undertaking, sustaining life on a spaceship or planet outside of our own, not to mention being able to leave our solar system within a human lifetime, and I believe it's something our species would need to do collectively.
I do however believe we should privatize space. NASA is very very good at the science part of space travel. They have the best labs, and the top minds for what they do. However privatizing space would allow the public to get creative and that is when the real advances would be made, or it makes sense anyway. Everything NASA does is slow. Our methods for space travel really haven't changed much since the space program beginning some 50 odd years ago. It's still a matter of brute forcing our way off of this rock. I say open the door for the garage genuis and greedy corporation and space travel will be possible sooner rather than later.
I think the best way to ensure the survival of our species is to spread our population out into the solar system/galaxy/universe. However it's simply ineffecient to do so now. The cheapest space travel, which is the casual dance through our atmosphere before hurtling back downward is still outrageously expensive. We would have to both unite as a species towards the common goal, and create cheaper and more effecient ways to travel space.
Using our current technology, it would take upwards of 50,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star outside of our solar system. We have a lot of growing up to do technologically. However it's my belief that as long as we are using our science to make easier ways of killing each other, we will continue at a dreadfully slow pace towards the stars. This is a massive undertaking, sustaining life on a spaceship or planet outside of our own, not to mention being able to leave our solar system within a human lifetime, and I believe it's something our species would need to do collectively.
I do however believe we should privatize space. NASA is very very good at the science part of space travel. They have the best labs, and the top minds for what they do. However privatizing space would allow the public to get creative and that is when the real advances would be made, or it makes sense anyway. Everything NASA does is slow. Our methods for space travel really haven't changed much since the space program beginning some 50 odd years ago. It's still a matter of brute forcing our way off of this rock. I say open the door for the garage genuis and greedy corporation and space travel will be possible sooner rather than later.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
