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what, you mean like, they'd rather have sex and make money hand over fist even thought they only need so much?
Ahh, somehow, I think when you ask people why they don't like science, it has more to do with social status and coolness, and finding the easy way through life.
Some people just don't spend the time to think about things.
and isn't it curious how human kids are born explorers, but then grow up not associating exploring with adventure?
Something telling me society is in a very sick state! And look above, somebody finds these points unfathonable! That certainly says society is in a 'very' sick mental state!
how adults like kids who think of the darndest things the way they also laugh at babies shitting in their pants, but like kids going in their pants around five years old or older, when kids start thinking to much around age ten, all of a sudden, not only adults, but the kids fellow social age group also has a problem with the kid thinking!
It's trully amazing how the non-thinking notice those who think!
Yes, I suppose I remember subconsciously wondering whether it was a good idea to have a wormhole opened on or around the immediate vicinity of the earth; certainly, we don't need any more of our atmosphere warped to the far ends of the universe and god only knows what could get sucked back into our side of the hole!
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512027
here's a latest article I found; i've been reading this stuff for a don't know how many years now; this article suggests why they havn't made a wormhole yet though(i had been wondering for a few years since the first time I found some of these articles why they havn't made one yet).
At the current rate of quantum computer and molecular manufacturing development, I think wormholes could be made more practical than a thousand miles of carbon tubes all the way to lagragian points; i been reading to the best of my ability all the wormhole activity at the main scientist e-mail exchange website, which recently moved to cornel instead of los alamos. I actually have a copy of a military paper that some chump linked at space.com's messageboards.
I'd say that if quantum computers and molecular manufacturing are made before 2010, then wormholes can be more practical than space-elevators!(to build before 2020 is up)
they've positioned nanotubes using dna awhile ago; i'd have to find a reference, but if you can do that, you can use these dna technologies to make thousands of stm's at the nanoscale.
as I forgot to say,
this is the biggest news you'll ever hear that doesn't make the national news of any country.
i've actually said a few years ago that we have dna-assemblers, but this has to pretty much make it official.
http://www.physorg.com/news9322.html
I remember a nanotech magazine which had an article argueing that the first assembler won't lead to future shock because it will be back in the shop for repairs; well, consider the first dna-assembly as going back in the shop a few years ago, and now the new better functioning dna-nanotech is out; before the next year is out, you'll see this technology go on an exponential growth pattern imo.
if they make business from the subsequent technologies - maybe they can.
combine the spacestation generalization with marsdirects living off the land, bigalows inflatables, some new rocket technologies, quantum dot solar energy and so on and so forth; i can feel it! Space colonization will come!
before anyone risks their reputations, i thought I'd go ahead and share a few thoughts that came to me while rereading it.
Seems SpaceDev has proposed generalizing the spacestation idea all the way to the lunar surface. The spacestation idea was originaly to save money by leaving heavy equipment up in orbit(today's space stations are significantly reduced to the point of being worlh less); SpaceDev is leaving spacestations at various orbital points all the way to the moon and even habitats on the moon!
http://www.space.com/news/051121_spacedev.html
I'd like to personaly say first of all, I'm a Poway Titan graduate; i knew I should of trained hard to break the school mile record - oh well!; still, how many thirty year olds can say they can run as fast as I can now?(clue, I'm fast!) I'll be alright though i'm sure in the rest of my life even though it still seems to be on the backburner.
Anyways, the article doesn't exactly specify what their plan is, but it will be highly interesting to see the effect of this study on the current world space race(yes, It has indeed turned into a spacerace).
i'm surprised it didn't create a big hole in the ground; makes me wonder;
This is hardly a mystery; when we first got pictures of asteroids in space from the Galileo probe if I recall correctly, we discovered a small asteroid gravitationally bound to a rather big asteroid!
Actually, I'd say Smalley increased regular nanotech funding as oppossed to the molecular manufacturing funding; i'd say this was a good thing because really as has been shown, the cost of developing molecular manufacturing as Richard Feynman and Drexler concieved it has turned out to be more than any government in the world would currently fund(although, the price is rapidly falling). It is not like they would have funded that stuff anyways - better to fund a bunch of 'enabling' technologies than molecular manufacturing directly.
i'm of the opinion he wasn't to impressed with the way the Foresight folks went about things or their 'collective' agreement of how to deal with molecular manufacturing . . . .
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3423476
i don't know why, but I feel pretty bad about this one.
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/ima … it%3A+NASA
this rocket engine has been successfully tested already!
some people have no imagination; plants on board their shenzue vessel which splits in two and leaves part of itself in orbit?
sounds to me the chinese have figured out that science in freefall can be very beneficial!
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005- … 618848.htm
and more human spaceflight news.
as I was about to post,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0 … 58,00.html
in other words, the u.s. has artificially overpriced space technology to keep the competition from gaining the same high ground; only now, civilization is feeling the second law of thermodynamics and has no time to be fucking around with politics; we need to get to space; we need to put political pressure on washington to lower the space activities prices and settle mars.
i remember spacedaily having a story about a spike rocket nozzle that maximizes thrust throughout the rockets flight, so you know there is some real possibility for even the falcon rockets to get up to orbit. I mean with all the nanotech companies developing right now and the coming space tourist companies, I think there is some real possibility for a private colonization effort around the 2020 timeframe.
