Indians Take Potential Step Toward Eventual Martian Colonization

[NordicNerd]

...One day, sitting around with a group of undergraduate physics students, I listened as one made the bold statement: “If it can be imagined, it can be done.” The others nodded in agreement. It sounded like wisdom. It took me all of two seconds to violate this dictum as I imagined myself jumping straight up to the Moon. I...

Good job!

My favorite is when some idiot social science or humanities researcher says "all knowledge is relative" or "all knowledge is a social construction". Well, try to apply this general statement on the statement itself to see why one should not waste time on such an individual.

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[Parker]

Yeah but were still moving slower than a lot of futurists thought. Part of it is because socialism and the nationalism that really drives socialism has become taboo. Just look at how fast the Germans and soviets progressed when they decided they wanted to be a superpower.

Yeah the soviets progressed militarily and the space program, but their people suffered. What's the point of saying that you nuke someone, when the other party thinks nuking your people would put them out of their misery?

[NordicNerd]

Yeah the soviets progressed militarily and the space program, but their people suffered. What's the point of saying that you nuke someone, when the other party thinks nuking your people would put them out of their misery?

Very true, and in the end they could not keep up. I read that they used vacuum tubes in their advanced fighter aircraft until the 90s.

Soviet "consumer" electronics were also a disaster. [img width=500

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[Henda]

No need for filthy indians on mars. They best spend that money elsewhere

[240 is Back]

Yeah but were still moving slower than a lot of futurists thought. Part of it is because socialism and the nationalism that really drives socialism has become taboo. Just look at how fast the Germans and soviets progressed when they decided they wanted to be a superpower.

during war, all resources went to that.  people worked with urgency.  we're just chilling now.

PLUS, I have to think that all the REALLY cool shit is being invented in secret, so as to not give these advantages to other nations.  If a dude writes the next 'killer app' in his garage, and can make $100k selling it on Apple one download at a time... or the govt offers him a cool ten million bucks, and they use it for their own purposes, hey, why not take the paycheck?    

I'd bet if some natural event caused earth to suddenly suck bad, we'd see crazy fast strides in progress for moving to mars, moon, or just a rotating space station.

[WOOO]

during war, all resources went to that.  people worked with urgency.  we're just chilling now.

PLUS, I have to think that all the REALLY cool shit is being invented in secret, so as to not give these advantages to other nations.  If a dude writes the next 'killer app' in his garage, and can make $100k selling it on Apple one download at a time... or the govt offers him a cool ten million bucks, and they use it for their own purposes, hey, why not take the paycheck?    

I'd bet if some natural event caused earth to suddenly suck bad, we'd see crazy fast strides in progress for moving to mars, moon, or just a rotating space station.

no chance... the religious would try to kill us all

[Borracho]

dude... i try not to be ethnically insensitive... but when i see a country full of starving people that's proud about launching crap into space and then spends a variety of weeks of the year celebrating a host of weird gods while working 120hr weeks for peanuts....

oh yeah, i had some pretty crazy experiences... but most of them were very good

Cause you're a nice Canadian.

I haven't been there myself but I imagine they discriminate against each other based on religion, social class, skin colour, gender, sexual preference, etc.

But it's funny to see how quick people from the third world learn their "rights" when they migrate to developed nations. They've been screwing one another for aeons and all of a sudden they expect people to bend over for them. Reminds me of a coworker I had from Iraq who was christian...super nice guy. He'd tell me how they were treated like garbage by most Iraqis being that the majority is muslim. And then these muslims move to places like Canada and expect to be treated with the decency they've never been able to give their own.    

Meltdown!

[cart@@n]

Van Allen Belts and Cosmic Radiation makes space travel impossible.

[Hulkotron]

Carbon nano-tubes