Human space exploration and colonisation beyond near Earth orbit is bullshit....

Julian Bond - 2013-12-01 07:56:49+0000 - Updated: 2013-12-01 07:56:49+0000

Human space exploration and colonisation beyond near Earth orbit is bullshit.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high-frontier-redux.html
Colonize the Gobi desert, colonise the North Atlantic in winter - then get back to me about the rest of the solar system!

From 2007

The High Frontier, Redux - Charlie's Diary

Wayne Eddy - 2013-12-01 11:51:41+0000

Excellent points. The Gobi desert comparison is a good one. Ive thought for a while that we won't be ready to colonize the solar system until we can send a convey full of robots out into a desert and have them build a city from scratch. Hopefully we'll see that happen one day.

Julian Bond - 2013-12-01 15:23:06+0000 - Updated: 2013-12-01 15:25:25+0000

I do think there might also be a possibility of sending out DNA seeds. Although they might take tens of millions of years to get there and hundreds of millions to turn into something interesting.

Of course what I'm really getting at is the "Rapture of the Nerds" viewpoint that this planet is used up so we'll just move on and use up another one. So Elon Musk style colonisation of Mars just ain't going to happen.

Ergodic Mage - 2013-12-01 18:42:35+0000

One person's impossibilities are another's challenges.

Julian Bond - 2013-12-01 20:25:34+0000

Waves hands, and then shouts in the voice of Alan Rickman, "I'll get you, Laws of Physics"!

Ross Hall - 2013-12-02 01:04:25+0000

+Alex McNair If the objective is the survival of homo sapiens then the meatbag thing is probably going to happen. It might not be the best way from a pure science perspective but I'm sure other special interest groups will get their say.

Ross Hall - 2013-12-02 01:47:03+0000

+Alex McNair Your biggest hurdle to that will be the Abrahamic religions.