Re: Starships

G. L. Bradford wrote:



We will create / adapt / improvise / expand and grow our way into the universe at large.

Only if we increase our lifespans greatly. The stars are far away and we travel slowly.

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.

I agree! The Moon is close enough to colonize without risking life and health on long-time free fall voyages. In addition we can use the backside of the Moon (where there is no earth glow) to build observatories much larger than the puny Hubble Telescope. Moon colonization is feasible and it is a better bootstap for constructing long trip space craft, than orbital facilities. If there are metallic deposits on the moon we can mine them, and if we find water, the problem of long term colonization is mostly solved.

Bob Kolker
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