The Future of Life

[Buzzard7]

As far as we know we're the only living beings in the universe! The fact that we"re here breathing on this little home we call earth is a miracle in itself! Life should be cherished n protected and we owe it to future generations to set a good example n fund the future of life as we know it. Maybe one day when humans are an inter plantery species, they'll look back on us as the god fathers of life.

Closest planet to us is still 4.21 years away if we could travel at the speed of light. Going to have to make our ships a ton safer before we make that leap. Voyager 1+2 are just making the edge of our heliosphere now. What kinds of readings will they send back outside the Sol system. Will it be calm or will the fan be recieving warm brown stuff?

[NatCigg]

Having been in the Fusion Studies Institute at UT, I can tell you it will be a long time (maybe never) before they get a practical fusion reactor.   They are still missing a critical piece of the physics pie on that one.   The sun gets to do fusion because of an infinite supply of free gravitational energy providing the pressures and temperatures needed.   We are trying to do it by banging the rocks together in a really expensive magnetic can and then hoping we can recover enough energy from it to run the can and have some extra left over. 

Pournelle probably had the right idea with the solar power satellites.  All we have to do is build some cheap way to throw mass into orbit and then have remote robots put it together. 

how do you get that power to my car?

[100Coogn]

Hold up a sec. Ain't the world going to end this year?




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Coogan