Alright I made a few threads about space and all the criticism was apparently alot of myths or nasa rhetoric. Just trying to point out alot of these things are news propaganda not facts.
1) The energy requirement for getting into orbit are huge and will never been reduced. Flat out false the amount of fuel say to get one person into space including the necessary capsule costs about 10 thousand dollars for person, alot of money but when compared to going to say a university quite cheap. The may cost is Research and design.
2) There's no atmosphere in space and very cold therefore it's extremely expensive. False again of course you do need to live in pressurized habitats. However since there is no air resistance the cost of travel is reduced to a small fraction of what it is on earth. Air causes cooling on your house, wind causes untold amounts of pressure, and wind resistance is 90 percent of your fuel costs in your car.
3) The lack of gravity makes everything up their impossible. False in fact with no air and no gravity most types of industries such as construction or transport have massive savings therefore one man can built a skyscrapper instead of a thousand no need for cranes etc.
Also artificial gravity is very easy to make, as long as your building are atleast 1kilometer Long(easy to build due to low gravity), rotational forces can be used to give a perfect simulation of gravity for us humans.
4)The amount of radiation found in space is beyond our ability to survive. Yes if exposed to direct cosmic rays, however all you need is 3 feet of ice and your completely protected, basically an igloo in space, very simple and basis to make, also since there's already loads of radiation there is no problems with using nuclear reactors.
5) There is nothing up there besides 7 inhabitable planets. False again there are million of asteroids to mine. in total about 100000 times the worlds current demand of minerals can be extracted from the asteroid belt.
6) The distances are too huge to overcome. False with no friction, from air or gravity, and thfreedom to use nuclear power, you can go anywhere you want in the solar system within 10 years. Sounds long but consider this is how long it would take up until 100 years ago to circle the globe. My point is the main obstacle is nothing to do with the engineering, it's all to do with the extensive RND overhead needed to get their. If our governments and cover that cost the rest is simply a matter of economics. The more people you send the cheaper it gets to send them due to economies of scale.
P.S MODS IF YOUR GONNA MOVE MY THREAD PLEASE TAKE THE GERMAN MERKEL THREAD WITH MINE TO POLITICS NOT TO THE Y BOARDS .
