Posted on 10/29/2010 2:27:01 PM PDT by Dallas59
The director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California casually let slip mention of the 100-Year Starship recently, a new program funded by the super-secret government agency, DARPA. In a talk at San Francisco's Long Conversation conference, Simon “Pete” Worden said DARPA has $1M to spend, plus another $100,000 from NASA itself, for the program, which will initially develop a new kind of propulsion engine that will take us to Mars or beyond.
There's only one problem: The astronauts won't come back.
The 100-year ship would leave Earth with the intention of colonizing a planet, but it would likely be a one-way trip because of the time it takes to travel 35 million miles. That’s a daunting prospect, partly because of the ethical dilemma, and partly because it may be the only recourse.
"What psychological challenges should we anticipate in those who volunteer in good faith and with great courage, yet find themselves confronting misgivings or loneliness or feelings of rage or beset with mental illness?" asked Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team.
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“The Soviet Union no longer exists so technically the treaty is null and void if we say so, correct?”
Legally correct, but when GW’s admin actually floated that idea, the demscums’ heads all but exploded. Ref what I said about Carter. They don’t want us to even look at such tech - and to get the incidental benefit of a tech explosion in related fields - until we are all firmly under their thumbs. Of course then, the necessary infrastructure will no longer exist, but they seriously could not care less. Science? Exploration? Human growth? Worthless to leftscum except as buzzowrds to delude useless (”useful”) idiots.
thanks Dallas59.
100 Year Starship: Nasa’s plan to colonise galaxy
The First Post | 10/27/10 | Tim Edwards
Posted on 10/29/2010 8:15:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2617500/posts
Sounds like you should stop dating liberals
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