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Post by ineffableone on May 13, 2015 2:36:48 GMT
Do you want to help explore space? Bill Nye is trying to get Kickstarter funding to send up a Lightsail craft, and you can help get it into space. Video explanation Kickstarter campaign /video_share
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2015 10:30:41 GMT
Hmmm, explore space or tend to the starving people on the planet, let me think what's the priority... O_o
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Post by william m on May 13, 2015 10:44:11 GMT
Well I believe that for humanity to have any kind of long term future, we need to spread ourselves to the stars. There are too many threats on this planet that would lead to the end of everything we know. What are we.. 3 minutes to midnight on the Doomsday clock?
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Post by ineffableone on May 14, 2015 0:16:09 GMT
Well nice to see they made it to their $200,000 goal with still over 40 days left. Now we will see how close to the $1 million stretch goal they can get to.
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Post by demonskull on May 14, 2015 1:19:05 GMT
So if the old guy from the animated film "Up" used Mylar balloons instead of rubber balloons he'd have a spacecraft ?
Actually this is the first time I heard an independent group was attempting this.
Thanks for posting.
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Post by william m on May 14, 2015 7:31:47 GMT
I suppose it is not all that surprising as you have the space X competition, which is entirely private. That and all the space tourism companies who are springing up.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 8:49:22 GMT
Well I believe that for humanity to have any kind of long term future, we need to spread ourselves to the stars. There are too many threats on this planet that would lead to the end of everything we know. What are we.. 3 minutes to midnight on the Doomsday clock? Um, the biggest threat to the planet would just happen to be humanity itself, so maybe rather than trash the planet and look for a quick exit maybe we should figure how to live here without overpopulating the planet and using up all the resources and destroying the natural systems that keep us alive.
Remember the words of Agent Smith in The Matrix (1999) - "I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we...are the cure."
This idea you mention sound exactly like what was being described in the movie, now that's a scary thought!
I think our the best way to ensure humanity's long term future is to live within our means and forget the novelty junk science that is just a distraction, but that's only my opinion... :)
I case people haven't realised, we are in fact moving through space, faster than any human technology can travel, on a self-sustaining vessel called the Earth, www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-fast-is-the-earth-mov/ I hope you're enjoying your flight through space at 390 kilometers per second (roughly 872,405 miles/hour for our unmetricated friends)! ;)
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 8:50:06 GMT
Never trust a man in a stupid looking bow-tie!
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Post by william m on May 14, 2015 9:24:18 GMT
Right............ :/
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Post by ineffableone on May 14, 2015 10:29:20 GMT
Never trust a man in a stupid looking bow-tie! Your welcome to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is. You don't like bow-ties and you don't like space exploration that is fine. Then don't participate in funding this. For those of us who actual care about space exploration then we can fund it to our heart's content.
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Post by Mikeeman on May 14, 2015 16:19:48 GMT
Personally, if this conversation could be kept as a debate and not an argument, I think it would be pretty fun.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 11:21:26 GMT
Whoops, I think I just insulted a lot of people who wear bow ties that are really into space travel - no great loss lol!!!
Fetch me my bowtie says Steve Urkel, I have a space mission to attend to!
Forget exploring space, I want to explore the reasons why weird looking old men that look like Dr Smith from Lost in Space (remember him?) feel compelled to wear whimsical neck attire, but no one would fund that...
I think some people are missing that I'm not taking this very seriously at all
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Post by ineffableone on May 21, 2015 2:05:58 GMT
On May 20, 2015, our first LightSail prototype launched from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas V rocket. sail.planetary.org/
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Post by justin520 on May 22, 2015 17:30:20 GMT
Hmmm, explore space or tend to the starving people on the planet, let me think what's the priority... O_o You know, it's not really so much an issue of funding as it is getting food into war torn areas without getting shot up by militias who will take that $#!+
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Post by Mikeeman on May 22, 2015 17:44:19 GMT
Ya know... Just out of curiosity... Wouldn't the light from all the other light sources on the OTHER side of the craft also push it back? If there's light on both sides, would it just kid of.... Sit there?
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Post by Timo Nieminen on May 22, 2015 20:31:01 GMT
The light from the sun is much brighter than the light from the other sources. Big push from the sun, little push back from the stuff on the other side ("big" relatively speaking; it's still a pretty small push from the sun compared to the forces we see in everyday life).
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