>you will never into space
>>116430281
Poland please.
Space is overrated.
Space, the final frontier...
>>116430332
How do you know?
>>116431060
>spending billions of dollars to go somewhere where there is nothing and you have to spend more billions of dollars just so you can live in this nothingness and emulate life on earth as best as you can
There's a reason the space age is over.
>>116432661
You must be a very practical and boring person.
A boy has the right to dream
>>116432661
>where there is nothing
Wrong.
There are tons of minerals, gases and ice to harvest.
Once we figure out how to harvest it, the real space age will come, when mankind will expend like crazy because of the sudden flow of material available.
And we'll do the same mistake we did on earth: overusing it without moderation.
>>116432661
Do you even into asteroid mining?
>>116430332
What did you just say?
>>116433423
>>116433440
That will happen unmanned, with von Neumann probes or similar.
Humananity will stay on earth.
>>116432661
Ssh, don't crush my dreams anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVRuLGs7LU
>>116433606
Are you just gonna keep running away?
>>116433727
Away from what? My dreams?
The reality is that man is not equipped to live in space. It'd be hugely expensive to prepare long-term habitats in space - always more expensive than it would be to prepare the same habitat on earth.
>>116433440
The thing that'll hinder asteroid mining is the amount of energy/power needed to do it effectively, and who to trust with that kind of power. Paraphrasing from elsewhere, but:
How to get rich quick with asteroid mining:
1. Develop the capability to capture and deorbit huge chunks of rock from space.
2. Demand money.
>>116433606
>Humananity will stay on earth.
Humans are stubborn anon, if they want to go on mars or just in space, they will go on mars or in space, by any means necessary.
The same thing happened for the discovery of America, everyone was scared that there's no end to ocean and to never get back home.
Yet some men went through this and permitted "mankind" to expand to a new land.
Human migration into space is literally the only political issue I care about. Kill babies, marry who you want, give money away, whatever. I just want the souls of humanity to be free of gravity.Even if I sound like a Char, I do believe this.
>>116433981
With America, there's somewhere to go *to*.
With space, you don't have that. You just go into territory where you don't want to be, where you body gets fucked up and where you need a constant stream of resources that would be free if you were elsewhere.
>>116434034
>free of gravity
Astronauts can only go to space for a few months at a time because their gravitational freedom destroys their bones.
>>116432661
Space is where everything is, we need to go there. It's inevitable that we will end up going there if we don't die, it might as well be written as fate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Os3DDGqApk
>>116434150
That's what space habitats are for.
>>116434034
>>116434238
I'm just pointing out that you don't want to be "free of gravity".
>>116434349
It's a metaphor.
>>116433727
Shut up, Hilda. You're dead
>>116433580
>You will never meet a qt moralfag waifu in space then horribly emotionally abuse her until you make her you're waifu
>>116433298
all of my nostalgia
![snapshot_00.54_[2014.11.05_16.15.23].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/pLRwFTN.jpg "snapshot_00.54_[2014.11.05_16.15.23].jpg")
>>116434078
They didn't knew where they went. they thought they were in Asia when they discovered it.
I understand what you meant.
But if there's something else than war that humanity is best at, it's the ability to overcome obstacles and go where it wants to go.
I may not see it happen ,sadly, or I'll be too old to experience it at best.
Things are moving quickly.
Like, Drones or the Oculus for example
in the 00's it was a fucking dream to see happen on a large scale and affordable price.
>>116434683
That was the only good thing about Captain Earth, all those rocket launching scenes were incredible.
>>116434232
>Space is where everything is,
If you care to wait a few centuries while you're traveling there, sure.
![snapshot_01.24_[2014.11.05_16.16.28].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/68Iof6v.jpg "snapshot_01.24_[2014.11.05_16.16.28].jpg")
>>116434527
>>116430281dum duuuuuum dum duuuuuuum dum duuuuuuum
>>116434950
We've got to start somewhere though? Sometime? It's like you think we'll just one day start going to the asteroid belts out of nowhere.
>>116435034
>We've got to start somewhere though
Why?
Because some people think that going to space would be a really neat thing to do.
Even Columbus' journey to America was a calculated risk and done for profit.
There is less and less to be gained from sending humans out of the gravity well other than fulfilling people's wishes of being a space-faring civilization.
![5 Centimeters Per Second [Dual-Audio 1080p v2].mkv_snapshot_00.45.57_[2012.07.24_15.40.05].png](https://i.imgur.com/AplkZ8t.jpg "5 Centimeters Per Second [Dual-Audio 1080p v2].mkv_snapshot_00.45.57_[2012.07.24_15.40.05].png")
Space, the final frontier
> /a/ - Space Travel & Hopes
>>116430281
Certainly not America, seeing how they perform lately.
>>116435143
>There is less and less to be gained from sending humans out of the gravity well other than fulfilling people's wishes of being a space-faring civilization.
You have to be seriously joking.
>>116435360
Do you know something that I don't?
>you will never upload your consciousness onto a mobile platform, launch yourself into dark space where no one can bother you, and play god for the rest of time in your little digital world ;_;
>>116433618
Man, these sort of tracks pull me close to crying like a bitch in every anime.
>>116435320
At least they're trying, and it's all private guys. It seems that only China (as a country) is interested in space now. Fucking gooks are more interested in space than we are. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
>>116435239
There's a reason why /m/ split off years ago, taking all the good space and dreams from /a/.
>>116434034
>free of gravity
Physics doesn't work like that. Astronauts in orbit actually weigh almost the same that they weigh when they are at sea level on Earth. They couldn't be orbiting otherwise.
Gravity is pretty important in astrophysics. Stop demonizing it.
One day, cykas.
>>116435320
Oh anon, I'm ashamed to laugh at that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0SgAU9LXI
>>116435568
Like I said before, it's a metaphor. I didn't see free humanity, or humanity's bodies, I said souls. There's no reason for us to be chained to one planet when we could exist across countless worlds, developing new cultures, identities, technology, art, etc.
>>116435445
Even reading this thread should give you your answer.
You have to be an idiot if you think
"There is less and less to be gained from sending humans out of the gravity well other than fulfilling people's wishes of being a space-faring civilization."
Deorbiting asteroids/asteroid mining could collapse the entire world economy, it has that much potential especially if you get one heavy in gold content.
The prospects are insane.
![[denpa] Space Dandy - 05 [CNHD 720p 5.1][C3200E32].mkv_snapshot_07.31_[2014.02.02_22.44.29].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QrPbY4v.jpg "[denpa] Space Dandy - 05 [CNHD 720p 5.1][C3200E32].mkv_snapshot_07.31_[2014.02.02_22.44.29].jpg")
>you will never be a future loli riding the space train
>>116435670
>we could exist across countless worlds,
This is no longer science. This is fiction.
Getting even one planet ready for human colonization would take centuries at the very least, and that's not counting the time we'd need to get there.
>developing new cultures, identities, technology, art
Why not do that on Earth, where it's happening right now, as we speak?
Outlaw Star BDs fucking where?
>>116435806
>This is no longer science. This is fiction.
No, it's still science.
Are you going to laugh at space elevators now?
>>116435806
creating something new, especially culturally, is easier with a blank canvas
>>116435806
It's not about practicality, it's about the romance and dreams.
And you really want to stay here, in one place, forever? The universe is so vast but you're comfortable in your bedroom, alone with the glow of a computer screen. I bet you've never left your own country.
>you will never go to space
>>116435922
>space elevators
You mean that idea where nobody knows what to build it with because even with nano-tubes people aren't sure if it's capable of holding together?
>>116435995
Isn't the problem with nano tubes we just don't have a method to build them anywhere close to the length required?
>>116435884
>he seriously thinks Humanity is going to stay on Earth
You are fuckiiing joking.
>>116435964
>The universe is so vast
That's just a plain lie.
All you'd see from the universe is a relatively unchanging night sky when you look at the monitors in your small cabin of the spaceship (that won't get built because it's not going to happen).
>>116436043
That's another problem, yes.
>>116435960
>blank canvas
You don't get that from going to space. You get that from meeting new people.
>>116435531
Chinks are the only one who don't have to deal with shit like economical and forced muticulturalism problems.
Once, or if, we get out of this, we'd catch up in no time.
They can't into unironical QUALITY because of their poor standards.
Space is serious business.
>>116436119
where did the first culture come from?
>>116436137
If i was in space like them, i'd be happy as fuck the first weeks.
>>116436198
What's your point?
You want to create new humans?
>>116436198
Fuck you OP. My one dream, the one thing I want in life is to go into space, not even that far just outside earth's atmosphere. I wan't to do a space walk and look down on our planet but no the sky is fucking limit because I was born too early, all I can do is watch Space related stuff and play games that take place in space.
I'd also like to be the first guy to discover an Alien life form and fuck it. Even if I died in the process they would talk about me in history classes for being the first guy to discover an alien but no one will care because they will all be thinking about how I fucked it instead.
I'll long be dead because no one cares, the only reason man got to the moon is because of a dick waving contest.
>>116436043
see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYYdh84pFng
>>116436119
>(that won't get built because it's not going to happen).
I have to wonder where people like this come from with such little foresight. They are probably the same people who thought the internet was never going to take off like it did.
Who /uchuu kyoudai/ here?
The possibilities of space are endless. All of you saying there's nothing out there, and it's not worth it, and the space age is over: We don't know how awesome space is because WE'RE NOT OUT THERE.
We need to get out and explore, we need to learn, expand, grow, and go out there among the stars. Like a bald frenchman once said: "Space. The Final Frontier."
We have conquered every frontier before. Our greatest challenge lies ahead: above and beyond our blue marble.
>>116436119
>We should never go to the bottom of the sea because it's just water
>We should never explore the rainforests because it's more of the same trees and animals
>We should never visit another country, I can read about their culture on the internet
>We should never make a car that runs on electricity, combustion engines work fine
>We shouldn't research new computer technology, what we have now is good enough
The point is we don't have to settle for mediocrity. We are a species that has explored the Earth, we should move on to other places.
