Space Travel

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

what is that supposed to mean?

It's not complicated, assuming you have the remotest notion of Star Trek...as I know itiwhetu does.

 

[Obsessed with fish]

It's not complicated, assuming you have the remotest notion of Star Trek...as I know itiwhetu does.

i watched 2 episodes but then i got bored of it

 

[itiwhetu]

i watched 2 episodes but then i got bored of it

That is a shame, Star Trek will teach you a lot more than you may realize at first. The same way as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is most probably the most important thing that has ever been written.

 

[Obsessed with fish]

That is a shame, Star Trek will teach you a lot more than you may realize at first. The same way as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is most probably the most important thing that has ever been written.

Isnt star trek a sci-fi, its not real

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

That is a shame, Star Trek will teach you a lot more than you may realize at first. The same way as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is most probably the most important thing that has ever been written.

Surely that would depend upon the particular series of Trek that was watched.

 

[itiwhetu]

Isnt star trek a sci-fi, its not real

Excuse me!!! How dare you suggest it is not real

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Excuse me!!! How dare you suggest it is not real

The messages were real enough, but remember, when the original series was launched, it was deemed 'too cerebral' for your average American audience.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

In relation to the many sci-fi series on TV and in film, such as the many varied variants of Star Trek, The Jetsons, Space 1999, Hitchikers Guide and Star Wars etc

I feel that they all give a very romantic and unrealistic vision of space travel. Where space travel and habitation is relatively easy as long as you don't annoy or disrupt the neighbours.

In some aspects of this type of fiction it has spawned the current trend of billionaires spending their billions on personal spacecraft...something I think cheapens the strides made in the 1950's and 1960's and cheapens those who died in the effort to reach space in that early era.

The imagination of the sci-fi writers is endless, not always well done and tends to plant impossible seeds into the minds of the gullible mega rich who frequently have more money than common sense.

More distopia than utopia.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

In relation to the many sci-fi series on TV and in film, such as the many varied variants of Star Trek, The Jetsons, Space 1999, Hitchikers Guide and Star Wars etc

I feel that they all give a very romantic and unrealistic vision of space travel. Where space travel and habitation is relatively easy as long as you don't annoy or disrupt the neighbours.

In some aspects of this type of fiction it has spawned the current trend of billionaires spending their billions on personal spacecraft...something I think cheapens the strides made in the 1950's and 1960's and cheapens those who died in the effort to reach space in that early era.

The imagination of the sci-fi writers is endless, not always well done and tends to plant impossible seeds into the minds of the gullible mega rich who frequently have more money than common sense.

More distopia than utopia.

So the next generation (see what I did there? ) will take their inspiration from Space Sweepers and The Expanse?

 

[Obsessed with fish]

Excuse me!!! How dare you suggest it is not real

its defiently not real, or at least for 10, 000 years

 

[Deleted member 149562]

So the next generation (see what I did there? ) will take their inspiration from Space Sweepers and The Expanse?

Nah......Spaceballs

 

[xxBarneyxx]

The imagination of the sci-fi writers is endless, not always well done and tends to plant impossible seeds into the minds of the gullible mega rich who frequently have more money than common sense.

Unfortunately with how the world works the only way that actual useful space exploration and expansion will happen is if there is commercial backing for it. No country wants to divert a significant amount of cash to it. It's down to businesses that see a the potential revenue streams in the future to move things forward.

I don't like it but that's how it is. Bezo, Branson and Boeing have basically just been playing at it for the last 20 years I admit, but even that has bought about some useful things. Mostly it is has kept it in the public mind and opened it up for other private companies to get involved with.

Space X, as much as I personally dislike Musk, has done more for the space industry in the past 18 years then arguably any other organisation. Their work on reusable rockets is going to push the next phase of space exploitation and exploration.

Personally I wish that organisations like NASA and the European Space Agency had much more funding and freedom, but that is not going to happen. If you can get a few companies like Space X developing the hardware that leaves these agencies to do what they do best, the science and exploration part.

 

[Obsessed with fish]

Unfortunately with how the world works the only way that actual useful space exploration and expansion will happen is if there is commercial backing for it. No country wants to divert a significant amount of cash to it. It's down to businesses that see a the potential revenue streams in the future to move things forward.

I don't like it but that's how it is. Bezo, Branson and Boeing have basically just been playing at it for the last 20 years I admit, but even that has bought about some useful things. Mostly it is has kept it in the public mind and opened it up for other private companies to get involved with.

Space X, as much as I personally dislike Musk, has done more for the space industry in the past 18 years then arguably any other organisation. Their work on reusable rockets is going to push the next phase of space exploitation and exploration.

Personally I wish that organisations like NASA and the European Space Agency had much more funding and freedom, but that is not going to happen. If you can get a few companies like Space X developing the hardware that leaves these agencies to do what they do best, the science and exploration part.

correct

 

[Myraan]

its defiently not real, or at least for 10, 000 years

That's why fantasy and sci fi is so awesome. It makes you think about psychology, history, science and culture in ways that would not be possible in fiction that was realistic.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

You all should read "The Gift of Mirrorvax" by Malcolm MacLeod. Trust me on this.