Re:NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
by elorant on Friday July 12, 2013 @09:12AM
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Drastic changes in technology happen all the time. It's not that simple to go from space travel where we could visit the moon to hyperspace one where we could reach the stars. It would take some centuries to get there and not because we're lazy or incompetent. Science has made tremendous achievements in the last 50 years. Transportation issues are not the only problem for interstellar travel, you'd also have to solve problems regarding logistics, life support systems, resources, time dilation and a few dozen more.
Even if we never manage to get past the limit of speed of light eventually we will reach out and populate other planets, even if we have to terraform them before. But our destiny lies on the stars. For all that matters let's be grateful of what we've achieved so far. In just fifty years of space exploration we've already managed to land a car on Mars and we've send some probes at the limits of our solar system. Fifty years from now we could already have a self-sustained colony on Mars or the Moon. This is huge by any measure.
Even if we never manage to get past the limit of speed of light eventually we will reach out and populate other planets, even if we have to terraform them before. But our destiny lies on the stars. For all that matters let's be grateful of what we've achieved so far. In just fifty years of space exploration we've already managed to land a car on Mars and we've send some probes at the limits of our solar system. Fifty years from now we could already have a self-sustained colony on Mars or the Moon. This is huge by any measure.