[zaphod3000]

Party pooper.

[GeronL]

O and the left want us back in the stone age

[JoeFromSidney]

I heard him speak at Spacefest2009. He's pretty good on the subject of Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. He had some very interesting data on using radios to detect alien life.

[Dallas59]

[saganite]

Party pooper is right and he ignores the real possibility that we’ve discovered water on Mars and possibly the moons of Jupiter. We don’t need to go to the stars to investigate whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe and discovery of any form of life (or simply water for that matter) would revolutionize science and exploration.

[Candor7]

He ignores the impact that Quantum mecanics will have on designing engines.

The devices will only be testable in space. We have to get up there and start experiments related to particle acceleration using space vehicles.

Once we have fusion drives, we will be able to conquer time and distance.

[Para-Ord.45]

Radiation will prevent any prolonged trips to Mars,so like,we`re stuck here.

http://www.space.com/news/061023_space_radiation.html

[IronJack]

And the earth is flat and beyond the horizon be monsters and if man were meant to fly he’d have wings and all sorts of other visionary declarations that have been proven idiotic by time.

[SkyDancer]

What about at warp 9?????

[gogogodzilla]

It’s pretty easy to imagine a way to circumvent lightspeed. Simply develop a time-machine.

Calculate the number of years the trip will take, then go back in time that amount. Bingo, the moment you arrive at your destination is the moment you started.

:-P

[Anti-Bubba182]

Rockets

"...-That Professor Goddard with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react—to say that would be absurd. Of course, he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's breakthrough work on rockets. The remark was retracted in the July 17, 1969 issue, in a humorous editorial. This was just prior to the historic moon landing of Neil Armstrong, so of course Goddard’s theory of rockets had been proven correct after all.

-A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere. New York Times, 1936..."

Predicting science and technology is another area the Times sucks at.

[expatpat]

He forgot about warp speed.....

[ASOC]

Pffftt

I have been bugging both of my sons to hurry and finish a FTL drive that will get us off this rock.

So far, no luck. I keep bugging them tho - just in case....

[RobinOfKingston]

[A] trip to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star beyond the Sun and 100 million times farther from us than the Moon, would consume a tedious 800 centuries or so. . . . .

That would be true without Warp Drive. Let's just put several trillion into developing WD, then we'll see how long it takes to get to Proxima C.