And to think the figure I had quoted to me when I worked on a project going into space was roughly £1m / kg to just get it into orbit.and then to think they shot that thing to Mars
While the technology behind all this is impressive, I always think it's an obscene waste of money.
If the NHS had a fraction of it, I possibly wouldn't have had to hold my Mum's hand while she died of cancer...
Hello is that kwik fit mobile fitting service?Being lighter hasn't stopped the wheels getting lumps knocked out of them though...
No. Space is a necessary hurdle and one we've neglected for too long.
If we keep all our eggs in one basket one extinction event could send us the way of the dinosaurs.
USA defence budget 2020 $738 BILLION.
NASA $2.5 billion to send it to Mars, current budget $40 million.
Costa Rica defence budget, zero
Cancer Research UK current budget £450 million
Billion and million only one letter different.
If I stood on a corner handing out one dollar every minute it would nearly two years to give away one million dollars
It would take me two thousand years to give away a billion dollars
Not sure what I am getting at, mainly that USA spends an awful lot of money trying to kill people and that million and billion trip off the tongue so easily it is easy to forget the difference.
Being lighter hasn't stopped the wheels getting lumps knocked out of them though...
That's a very defeatist attitude Ronan.I think the possibility of finding somewhere we could live apart from the earth is slim to nil.
That's a very defeatist attitude Ronan.
It's not just habitiation there's huge amounts of resources just floating around.
If you don't look you won't find
If panspermia is a valid theory then we have plenty of bacteria here we can shoot off. If nice vacuum protected pods
Or build.
I think the possibility of finding somewhere we could live apart from the earth is slim to nil.
I agree entirely.
I fail to understand why deluded individuals like Elon Musk spend millions/billions sending spaceships to planets which cannot support human life instead of focusing on planet Earth which does and has done for thousands of years.