A couple of years ago the American Space Administration decided to stop the space program and stop sending astronauts into space. Was this a good idea or should we be pushing astronauts further into space rather than grounding them indefinitely?
We are by comparison a tiny ball in space. Floating around on our own little orbit among billions of other stars and planets and moons and suns. Do the American Space Administration think that as soon as all the possible inhabitable space on this planet are "inhabited", they can just jump into a space shuttle and fly to the nearest planet and start building? At the rate the earth is being consumed by its inhabitants, it won't be very long before we have completely over populated it. remember we do need more agricultural space the more people we need to feed. So you can't just say "well we have a lot of fields we can build houses on". Because those fields are our sustenance. Medical breakthroughs although amazing, unfortunately are the reason why our planet is being over populated. More people are living to an older age, more babies are being saved in childbirth and infancy, more people are surviving major catastrophes around the world because our response times are faster and the equipment we use is far more advanced. There are numerous reasons as to why our planet will over populate and we are just getting started as far as technology is concerned. I suspect that we are on the brink of some "Huge" scientific breakthroughs in the 21st and 22nd centuries.
We "will" need to seek habitation elsewhere,
so take this as a kick up the arse all you people in the know and get the exploration stepped up a click from Mars rovers and find a way to put pilots in space in "Crafts" not rockets. Let them decide where they want to go. We have the technology to build them. We can fuel them for further exploration from the International space station (which should have been built on the moon by the way). We are able to produce dehydrated rations that last for years. So food isn't a problem. All we need is a company that's willing to build it and a crew that have no Earthly commitments with the balls to go for it. If we had a method of creating liquid nitrogen that was portable for added fuel whilst in flight and a life support system to generate fresh air to breath.
Or maybe we don't have a government anywhere in the world that's willing to take on the expense. So why not get them all to chip in? After all, they would all benefit from it wouldn't they? Or maybe there's too many people that don't believe that science fiction becomes science fact? Jules Verne would disagree with you.
As do I.
Well here's an update!! I think I said in this post in december 2012 that our "International Space Station should have been built on the moon? Well low and behold, "three Years Later!" We have an anouncement on the TV, that Russia and the european Space Agency or someone, is planning to build a Station on the moon. Why has it taken these so called brilliant scientists so long to realise it's the best idea, when I a mere soldier thought of it years ago? lol Cracks me up to think that even the brightest minds really aren't so switched on as much as we'd think. If you had built the station on the moon years ago "morons" you'd have saved a few hundred billion dollars and you'd already have astronaughts travelling beyond the moon dumb asses......
