Posted on 10/16/2021 7:48:47 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Following Prince William’s comments about issues around current space flights, William Shatner responded to the royal’s concerns. The actor both justified his trip as well as to shut down what the Duke of Cambridge had to say.
“He’s a lovely, gentle, educated Englishman, but he’s got the wrong idea,” Shatner told Entertainment Tonight.
The star explained what he meant by noting that the “idea here is not to go, ‘Yeah, look at me. I’m in space.’” Instead, he said that “the prince is missing the point. The point is these are the baby steps to show people [that] it’s very practical. You can send somebody like me up into space.”
“We’ve got all the technology, the rockets, to send the things up there… You can build a base 250, 280 miles above the Earth and send that power down here, and they catch it, and they then use it, and it’s there. All it needs is… somebody as rich as Jeff Bezos [to say], ‘Let’s go up there.’”
Going a little deeper to explain that “the idea of getting industry up there” is “so that all those polluting industries, especially, for example, the industries that make electricity” end up “off of Earth.”
Although Shatner did agree with the royal when it comes to the fact that we should be putting work in on our own planet, he said, “So fix some of the stuff down here … But we can curl your hair and put lotion on your face at the same time.”
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It was a fun show, when I was a kid; and you have to admit that he has staying power.
What interested me in the videos I saw was that while the other people on the flight were doing acrobatics in weightlessness, Shatner seemed fascinated to just sit in front of the window and look at Earth. And when he came back, he spoke almost rapturously about that view and vision.
I don’t think the experience was wasted on him.
He is 90 but in terms of mental acuity he could pass for someone in his 50s or 60s. Whereas our White House occupant..
“But we can curl your hair and put lotion on your face at the same time.”
LOL, saying that in reference to Prince Willy is just mean. The only way he’s gonna get curls is with a magic marker.
Gerard O'neill, several decades ago advocated power generation in space. We have all the technology on the shelf.
Go to the moon and/or asteroids. Mine and smelt all the metals needed to build the power plants there with 1/6 gravity on the moon and less on asteroids.
Launch the materials from there to small factories in orbit around the earth and construct the power plants in geosynchronous orbits.
These would be simple steam generators. If you understand how a steam generator works, half of the power comes from the steam, the other half from the suction of condensing the steam.
A power plant in orbit would have the ultimate heat on the sun side of the plant, and the ultimate cold on the shaded side.
You beam the power to earth with microwave energy to converter stations.
You wouldn't need a huge grid of power lines as receiver and converter stations could be located in local areas.
I expected, back in the 1970s that well before now this would be where our power came from.
Gerard O'neill, several decades ago advocated power generation in space. We have all the technology on the shelf.
Go to the moon and/or asteroids. Mine and smelt all the metals needed to build the power plants there with 1/6 gravity on the moon and less on asteroids.
Launch the materials from there to small factories in orbit around the earth and construct the power plants in geosynchronous orbits.
These would be simple steam generators. If you understand how a steam generator works, half of the power comes from the steam, the other half from the suction of condensing the steam.
A power plant in orbit would have the ultimate heat on the sun side of the plant, and the ultimate cold on the shaded side.
You beam the power to earth with microwave energy to converter stations.
You wouldn't need a huge grid of power lines as receiver and converter stations could be located in local areas.
I expected, back in the 1970s that well before now this would be where our power came from.
I heard the “Duke of Cambridge” interviewed the other day.
He sounds as thought he is as much of a DOOFUS as his IDIOTIC FATHER.
Sad when a hundred year old woman is the smartest one in the family.
And I always thought the English Royals were kinda cute.
WOW.
Well it doesn’t take a lot of education to bow and smile while you go around visiting places. Which is basically what they’re there for and to show up where invited.
I agree that the best minds on the planet should focus on the most urgent challenge, which is to dump globalists and show them a taste of justice. Prince Charles, arranger of traffic mishaps, would be as good a place to start as any.
We stopped needing to care about the opinions of English royals in 1776. When the crownheads move from their castles and palaces and into sustainable apartments, perhaps they can be taken more seriously.
I hear the British Interplanetary Space Program is going....gang-busters?
Izzat Karloff?
Shatner didn't say that. The so-called "journalist" who reported on Shatner's flight put those words in his mouth.
Shatner merely said that we should all strive to protect our planet, then the "journalist" added something like, "in obvious concern over the dangers of Global Warming."
Regards,
Vincent Price.
CC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
https://www.energy.gov/articles/space-based-solar-power
FWIW, I’m happy that the man who bought stories about space travel to two (three?) generations actually got a change to experience it.
Horse's ass/face.
(You don’t have flying cars yet, either.)
How much time and capital do you think it would require to implement these nice ‘energy from space’ ideas?
I think it’s going to be oil, coal and gas for a long time yet, even if we are to ever again have a political atmosphere that promotes America First.
We have plenty of natural resources right here in the good old USA, if the Great Gods Government and Politics would just get their meddling paws out of it.
And the current regime will meddle with any really useful alternatives, too. They will happily waste trillions of dollars on nonsense, as they’re trying to do now; but fight tooth and nail against investing in the kinds of ideas that you suggest.
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