Alfista Junior
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J. said:These are some of the best debates all year for me.
http://xfacts.com/x.htm
This has a lot of good theories of aliens, stuff like that, I really like it.
After I put in that little blurb, here's my response to Alfista:
Earth is reaching it's Carrying Capacity, and we, as the Human Race, Homo Spines, Terrans, (Yes, Earth's real name is Terra just as the Sun is Sol, and the moon Luna, use their real names, it's a pet peeve of mine) have had exponential growth since the time of the Middle Ages, it's only a matter of time before the Terra will run out of space for people to live in, as people live longer, and more people are born, we will need to go somewhere else, and soon. (not soon as in the next 100 years, but in the next 20) Our (USA's) current plan for space is way too slow, Kennedy said we'd be on Luna in before 1970, we were there in 1969. He told the Engineers to get it done, and when, and they did, now, we have to get it all approved, reviewed, tested, re-approved, and then finally actually used. It just takes too long. Bush is giving us 15 (he said in 2005) years to get BACK to Luna, and 25 years to get to Mars. Right now, we should be sending already made modules to Luna via the Saturn V (most powerful rocket to date, but was destroyed because it qualified as an ICBM, darn Soviet-American treaties......) rocket and then from there, set up a site to build rockets and ways to get to the Mars from there. Over 80% (or more, maybe 90%) of a US Space Shuttle's fuel is used to get it out of Terra's orbit, and into space. That gives it 10-20% to maneuver and correct it's paths, it's very inefficient and not cost-effective. Building and launching on Luna will not use probably less then 5% of a ship's fuel, leaving at least 95% to do whatever it wants to do with. Now, remember that once an object is going 5000mph, it stays at 5000mph unless you apply more, or an opposite thrust to it, it's one of Newton's laws, and from there, we can use fission(not very efficient in space, but it can be used), fusion(not to be actually tested yet, but a reactor is being built in France), conventional chemical, and new solar sails(all new tests fail to deploy) and the Ion Engine(currently under development, but can be used in the nest 5-10 years) (It adds another proton to an Hydrogen atom, causing it to create massive amounts of thrust and force) to get where ever we want to go. Luna can also hold minerals, to send back to Terra, and has abundant supplies of H1, basically pure Hydrogen, for the Ion Engine, how very convenient.
The problem is you consider that life on Mars or on another planet is possible. I don't think so. Space exploration can only bring knowledge which allows us to improve our life on earth. For me, the rest is Sci-fi...
You know, I don't like this kind of stories because I don't want people strongly believe we can do whatever on earth because we will colonize another planet later...