I'm rather curious to see what real spacecrafts will look like (beyond our current crop of primitive satellite or probe carriers), but today it looks to me even less likely that I'll live long enough for that, than it did a few decades ago.
This looks more like boeing trying to validate itself after losing out on the jsf. This is not something that will be seen in production, and it is not intended to.
Well? Getting killed by terrorist makes sure you don't die of AIDS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What. You think that's justified? Spending millions of dollars on something that will probably never see the light of day...much less even survive a real life war experience? Bullsh!t. Just another high-tech way of obliterating a third-world terrorist retard.
Let's put this money to good use like a cure for AIDs, Alternative Energy or solving World Hunger...the last one's easy...Americans...STOP EATING...sorry I digress... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
I recommend reading Cordwainer Smith's short story "Golden The Ship Was, Oh! Oh! Oh!" for serious scary spacecraft stuff.
The thing that's really crippling a trip to Mars is the financial side of things: it's going to cost a fortune, and the radiation dosage the travellers would receive is also a little tricky to deal with. Not to mention the amount of provisions they'd need, even with optimal mission-windowing...
<strong>Mine? NO! Exit only for me thank you.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Awww, come on. It was one of the best uses of one of the all-time greatest jokes in aaages!
Oh, and anyone interested in finding out more about Cordwainer Smith should check out <a href="http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/"; target="_blank">this</a> website.
If you like science fiction, "The Rediscovery of Man" is a very worthwhile read.
<strong>If you like science fiction, "The Rediscovery of Man" is a very worthwhile read.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's a big ten-four: some of the most poetic, whimsical, lyrical science fiction ever written, and it's all just so driven: this is a man who has his vision and carries it off with total conviction, and makes you believe it. Not to mention the overall backstory that informs the entire history of his writing... amazing stuff, and totally ahead of its time.
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<strong>Ah...our tax dollars at work. Whoopie. Hey, how about a cure for AIDS while you're at it...
Well? Getting killed by terrorist makes sure you don't die of AIDS.
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Well? Getting killed by terrorist makes sure you don't die of AIDS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
ROFL
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Well? Getting killed by terrorist makes sure you don't die of AIDS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What. You think that's justified? Spending millions of dollars on something that will probably never see the light of day...much less even survive a real life war experience? Bullsh!t. Just another high-tech way of obliterating a third-world terrorist retard.
Let's put this money to good use like a cure for AIDs, Alternative Energy or solving World Hunger...the last one's easy...Americans...STOP EATING...sorry I digress... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
The thing that's really crippling a trip to Mars is the financial side of things: it's going to cost a fortune, and the radiation dosage the travellers would receive is also a little tricky to deal with. Not to mention the amount of provisions they'd need, even with optimal mission-windowing...
<strong>The thing that's really crippling a trip to Mars is the financial side of things: it's going to cost a fortune...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Things will accelerate dramatically if probes can discover a valuable marketable resource on Mars.
It's capitalism that'll get us there, not a want for exploration and a desire for knowledge.
Heck, even now the only people going into space are Backstreet Boys sponsored by soda pop.
<strong>They should turn Mars into a hip new gay hang out.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Isn't that already the plan for Uranus?
<strong>Heck, even now the only people going into space are Backstreet Boys sponsored by soda pop.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'll quite happily stump up for that.
Provided it's a one-way ticket.
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Isn't that already the plan for Uranus?
Mine? NO! Exit only for me thank you.
<strong>Mine? NO! Exit only for me thank you.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Awww, come on. It was one of the best uses of one of the all-time greatest jokes in aaages!
Oh, and anyone interested in finding out more about Cordwainer Smith should check out <a href="http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/"; target="_blank">this</a> website.
If you like science fiction, "The Rediscovery of Man" is a very worthwhile read.
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<strong>If you like science fiction, "The Rediscovery of Man" is a very worthwhile read.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's a big ten-four: some of the most poetic, whimsical, lyrical science fiction ever written, and it's all just so driven: this is a man who has his vision and carries it off with total conviction, and makes you believe it. Not to mention the overall backstory that informs the entire history of his writing... amazing stuff, and totally ahead of its time.
Norstrilia is well worth a read as well.