Re: Starships
- From: "G. L. Bradford" <glbrad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 04:35:07 -0400
"Will Davis" <Will.Davis.2b46726@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Will.Davis.2b46726@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ok thank you all that have replied to my post. Frankly I am really
interested in the theory of space travel in the near future. The
problems which you all have said I already knew, I'm trying to find
solutions to such problems. For intance the problem of re-entry to
Earth. Instead of having the ship come directly to the planet
space-ports would be in orbit around the planet. Since there already is
a space station in orbit then the next logic step as far as space goes
is colonization of either the moon or general space. Then following
that there would be the possiblity of interstellar travel hopefully.
Thoughts?
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Will Davis
We will create / adapt / improvise / expand and grow our way into the universe at large.
I wouldn't worry about the naysaying Dark Age physicists and Earth First Utopians (Gibbon's mental "pygmies" updated) living today. Had Columbus and everyone else listened to their types back in his day we more than likely would not be advanced in energies, powers and capabilities much beyond 1492 even now. The Ottoman Turks would have conquered an inward looking, and imploding, Europe and put its advancement back some 500 or more years. China (less than a hundred years prior) had already been set back some 500 years or so by its own naysaying and inward looking -- implosive -- elites, schools and bureaucracies.
The biggest problem is we should already have bases on the Moon, large gravitied [general purpose] space stations in Earth orbit, capable mass transportation system shuttles and ships plying the lanes to space and in space, and at least the first space colony city-state complex coming on line around L4 or L5. With all that expanding and growing frontier activity, our (then) increasingly frontier-like economies on Earth would be doing a heck of lot better than they -- increasingly implosively -- are doing now.
About 230 years ago, an American farmer / writer named Crevecoeur commented on how people immigrating into a vast new frontier environment seemed to just naturally expand in mind, genius, energy and potential to be creative and do, equally vastly. Edward Gibbon wrote of just the opposite occurring in a tyrannically frontierless world imploding into itself. Shrinking minds, genius, energy and potential producing, evolving, mental "pygmies" -- savage mental midgets -- as the vast, the very vast, now otherwise irresistibly immovable, mass.
But maybe we haven't reached that point yet. A move to begin now what we should have begun long ago (and were [tyrannically] kept from doing by inward looking -- government, university and, in general, ideological -- powers that be) might reverse civilization's decline and fall from the accelerating growth of a [savage] mental midgetry. New (energetic) Worlds in the making.....including a brand spanking new (energetic) Old World in the making right here. Being in the presence, the environment, of an energetic vastness expanding minds -- the mass mind and genius -- vastly, expanding possibilities, potentials, capacities, capabilities, vision and creativity vastly. It's not something new, it's simply the nature of the thing (simply the nature of opening....of going nova).
GLB
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