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Honestly, at the snail's pace that we are going and with almost no real testing in space, we should just quite space travel, stay home and watch Netflix! I often feel that way but when I see that Elon Musk and Space X are getting things done, still, they need a next gen propulsion system to get the Star ship where it needs to go fast! No coasting!
I know, and it is so frustrating that we are still, still coasting through space! Decades of tinkering in labs and almost nothing to show in the way of actually testing something, even if it is rudimentary in development... it would be better than what we have done! At this rate, it will be another 20, 30, 50 years before we see a serious effort to accomplish a truly next gen. propulsion system. For me personally, even if we get to Mars but we do it coasting all the way, it will be a huge disappointment! Real deep space exploration will never be realized until we stop coasting through space! We need something to inspire a challenge to go further and faster in our exploration of space! That is why I came up with the race to the moon! Returning to the moon would be nice, but if we do it in less than 12 hours, that.. would be awesome! We need awesome! Awesome inspires a whole lot more than nice ever will! Future headlines should read...
The Eagle has landed again! Travel time 10 hours 17 minutes, 43 seconds! Next stop... Mars!
Star ship has landed! We are on Mars! Travel time 22 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes and 7 seconds! Next stop... Jupiter!
The Jupiter run!... 51 days, 17 hours, 22 minute, 11 seconds... next stop.... Saturn!
From there we do not stop! Each time we go, we go further, faster, we reach out into the stars!
Wanted to talk about the snail's pace of testing and using enhanced propulsion for mars missions. Here we are with the launch of the Perseverance, and we are still coasting through space like children riding a bike by kicking their legs on the ground rather than pedaling. It is pathetic. We have prototype next gen 21st propulsion systems that should have been tested already! The goal should be to see how fast we can get something to lunar orbit and back! It is time to stop coasting through space! We need to get serious and put something out there that will give us rapid point to point transit!
IT IS TIME TO STOP COASTING THROUGH SPACE!
Concept:
RACE TO THE MOON!
A challenge to see who can get to lunar orbit and back to Earth in the shortest amount of time!
At this point, getting anything out there and testing it, pushing the limits of our present day technology will yield a lot better results than endless testing and tinkering in labs. You can't learn to ride a bike by sitting in your garage testing it! You have to get out of the garage and get on the bike and go! If you fall, you brush yourself off and get back on! The same principle applies to developing a next Gen. 21st century propulsion system that will get us out there into deep space rapidly!
We can begin to really push what we have now, and test these prototype propulsion systems on some level and doing so will in itself propel us further and faster to reaching such a goal!
It is time!
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