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Humans to explore deep space for the first time in 50 years
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Re: Humans to explore deep space for the first time in 50 years
The last I heard, 240,000 miles from Earth is not "deep space." We haven't the slightest idea how to propel humans beyond lunar orbit, not even into the rest of the solar system, and IMEO, this is a case not of learning more to be able to do more (as in, say, heavier-than-air flight), but of the more we learn the more we recognize the limits of possibility.
A new manned moon mission cannot be anything other than a gigantic boondoggle, as was, indeed, the first one, which was not made for the sake of science but to whack the crap out of the Russians in the space race. I would speculate that this project has been put on the fast track so that Donald Trump can take credit for it and distract the country from the domestic damage he is doing, not to mention raise false hopes that our future does not rest strictly on Earth, the only home our species will ever have and of which he is such a poor steward. It may be better than starting a war, but the motivation is the same.
A new manned moon mission cannot be anything other than a gigantic boondoggle, as was, indeed, the first one, which was not made for the sake of science but to whack the crap out of the Russians in the space race. I would speculate that this project has been put on the fast track so that Donald Trump can take credit for it and distract the country from the domestic damage he is doing, not to mention raise false hopes that our future does not rest strictly on Earth, the only home our species will ever have and of which he is such a poor steward. It may be better than starting a war, but the motivation is the same.
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Re: Humans to explore deep space for the first time in 50 years
Neither, upon reflection, is 140 million miles.
The last I heard, manned space flight hadn't got much farther than a golf ball can travel from the face of the moon.
Deep space, or not-so-deep space? Science has pronounced it off-limits to mere sublunary beings, so what's the unearthly diff?
Scientists are not unlike sunbathers: they screen themselves from what they turn their faces to. Still, some things done in the name of science can actually be fun, e.g., the thrill of a jump from the edge of deep space, or as precise diction requireth, the void's vasty undeep.
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