Re:A new Moon race has begun
by em-bee on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:43PM
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manned space missions are necessary in order to advance manned spaceflight.
we need the experience from sending 5, 10, etc people there before we can send hundred or more.
we need much more data on the effects of longterm space travel. this kind of experience can not be bootstrapped.
bootstrapping colonization would be worthwhile if we were ready to build a viable colony in the next few decades. but i do not believe we are.
i believe we do not yet have enough data to know if long term space missions are even possible.
getting machines to mars is easy. but getting the experience necessary for human colonization alone will take several decades more before we are ready. we don't need that bootstrapping as much as we need the experience of human spaceflight in order to build a colony.
we need the experience from sending 5, 10, etc people there before we can send hundred or more.
we need much more data on the effects of longterm space travel. this kind of experience can not be bootstrapped.
bootstrapping colonization would be worthwhile if we were ready to build a viable colony in the next few decades. but i do not believe we are.
i believe we do not yet have enough data to know if long term space missions are even possible.
getting machines to mars is easy. but getting the experience necessary for human colonization alone will take several decades more before we are ready. we don't need that bootstrapping as much as we need the experience of human spaceflight in order to build a colony.