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Sunday, 29 May 2011

The Final Frontier

I know they say that necessity is the mother of invention but I wonder, if we hadn't spent most of human history trying to find more efficient ways of killing ever larger numbers of people, whether we might not have had some reasonably good space travel by now.
With earth's population growing and resources running low I think we need to move out and colonise. Unless some scientist can discover hyperspace (much beloved by the sci-fi writers) for instantaneous travel, then it's going to have to be done by slowly moving through the solar system colonising different planets and moons. consolidating and moving on.
Way back in the late 60's this almost seemed to be attainable but the cutting of funds for the space programme and the paranoia of the superpowers meant a shelving of ideas for bases on the moon and voyages to Mars. Now some entrepreneurs are trying to build  passenger space vehicles for space tourism but is it too little too late? Only the very rich will be able to afford to go and will it ever be enough to finally get something like a moon base built? 
Will there ever come a day when a true interplanetary space ship is built in space large enough to take a population of colonists across the void. To boldly split infinitives where no man has gone before?

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