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Post by Zyobot on Nov 13, 2018 16:24:06 GMT
Having recently read Andy Weir's 2011 novel, The Martian, and seen the movie version shortly after its release in 2015, it got me thinking about what the future has in store for civilization's continued development and expansion.
In particular, I'm curious about what the future of interplanetary exploration could be--both within our 21st Century lifetimes, and beyond?
Thank you in advance, Zyobot
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Post by lordroel on Nov 13, 2018 16:24:55 GMT
Having recently read Andy Weir's 2011 novel, The Martian, and seen the movie version shortly after its release in 2015, it got me thinking about what the future has in store for civilization's continued development and expansion. In particular, I'm curious about what the future of interplanetary exploration could be--both within our 21st Century lifetimes, and beyond? Thank you in advance, Zyobot
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 13, 2018 17:01:27 GMT
Having recently read Andy Weir's 2011 novel, The Martian, and seen the movie version shortly after its release in 2015, it got me thinking about what the future has in store for civilization's continued development and expansion. In particular, I'm curious about what the future of interplanetary exploration could be--both within our 21st Century lifetimes, and beyond? Thank you in advance, Zyobot
Well i think we see a lot of private missions to other planets. I'd like to see that. I don't want a prospective space exploration industry to be restricted to just governments, though I can perfectly see why they'd want to closely and stringently regulate it at least at first. It'd make for a pretty cool ISOT scenario, I think--especially to sometime around 1969 to 1972 (because Moon landings).
As a matter of fact, it may become a hot topic in the future as to whether private businesses should be allowed to engage in space exploration ventures or not. I think they should if possible (with well-enforced limitations, of course), but that's my uneducated opinion.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 13, 2018 17:03:42 GMT
Well i think we see a lot of private missions to other planets. I'd like to see that. I don't want a prospective space exploration industry to be restricted to just governments, though I can perfectly see why they'd want to closely and stringently regulate it at least at first. It'd make for a pretty cool ISOT scenario, I think--especially to sometime around 1969 to 1972 (because Moon landings).
As a matter of fact, it may become a hot topic in the future as to whether private businesses should be allowed to engage in space exploration ventures or not. I think they should if possible (with well-enforced limitations, of course), but that's my uneducated opinion.
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 28, 2018 0:36:04 GMT
Do we have anything for Mars, specifically if, when and how a future civilization could develop there?
To echo a previous post of mine, perhaps that'd make an entertaining ISOT scenario.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 28, 2018 4:17:36 GMT
Do we have anything for Mars, specifically if, when and how a future civilization could develop there? To echo a previous post of mine, perhaps that'd make an entertaining ISOT scenario. The Mars 2020 Rover. Photo: Artist concept of the Mars 2020 rover.  |
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Post by Middlesex_Toffeeman on Mar 10, 2019 6:33:13 GMT
Well i think we see a lot of private missions to other planets. I'd like to see that. I don't want a prospective space exploration industry to be restricted to just governments, though I can perfectly see why they'd want to closely and stringently regulate it at least at first. It'd make for a pretty cool ISOT scenario, I think--especially to sometime around 1969 to 1972 (because Moon landings).
As a matter of fact, it may become a hot topic in the future as to whether private businesses should be allowed to engage in space exploration ventures or not. I think they should if possible (with well-enforced limitations, of course), but that's my uneducated opinion.
I'm all for privatisation of space, provided, of course, that no international law is broken. |
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Post by lordroel on Mar 10, 2019 8:12:46 GMT
I'd like to see that. I don't want a prospective space exploration industry to be restricted to just governments, though I can perfectly see why they'd want to closely and stringently regulate it at least at first. It'd make for a pretty cool ISOT scenario, I think--especially to sometime around 1969 to 1972 (because Moon landings).
As a matter of fact, it may become a hot topic in the future as to whether private businesses should be allowed to engage in space exploration ventures or not. I think they should if possible (with well-enforced limitations, of course), but that's my uneducated opinion.
I'm all for privatisation of space, provided, of course, that no international law is broken. Most of those private companies who go to space are operating out of the United States where they have close ties to NASA and thus i doubt they are going to break US law. |
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Post by kyng on Mar 16, 2019 13:41:48 GMT
I imagine we'll at least see a manned mission to Mars eventually, and it's likely that we'll go back to the Moon as a springboard for that. We're very close to having the technology to send people to Mars, if we don't have it already.
I suspect that the main barriers will be economic. A manned interplanetary flight would be astronomically expensive (if you will forgive the pun), and there would need to be a serious justification for a government to spend so many billions of dollars on such a mission - especially when an unmanned mission could do most of the science at one-tenth of the cost.
I suspect the first travellers to Mars - and to any planets and moons beyond that - will be private individuals with more money than sense.
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Post by dayton3 on Jan 15, 2020 15:43:45 GMT
Return to the moon. Mars, Calisto (Jupiter), Ceres, Titan (Saturn), Venus (orbit only), Mercury, Titania (Uranus), Triton (Neptune), Pluto.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 15, 2020 15:58:55 GMT
Return to the moon. Mars, Calisto (Jupiter), Ceres, Titan (Saturn), Venus (orbit only), Mercury, Titania (Uranus), Triton (Neptune), Pluto. Travel to Pluto is going to take a long time, even for a unnamed probe, also we already have good information of Pluto thanks to New Horizons. |
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Post by dayton3 on Jan 15, 2020 20:42:35 GMT
Return to the moon. Mars, Calisto (Jupiter), Ceres, Titan (Saturn), Venus (orbit only), Mercury, Titania (Uranus), Triton (Neptune), Pluto. Travel to Pluto is going to take a long time, even for a unnamed probe, also we already have good information of Pluto thanks to New Horizons. New Horizons was merely a one off flyby. To get serious amounts of information we would need an orbiter and several landers. Landers for the moons as well. |
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Post by lordroel on Jan 16, 2020 4:13:58 GMT
Travel to Pluto is going to take a long time, even for a unnamed probe, also we already have good information of Pluto thanks to New Horizons. New Horizons was merely a one off flyby. To get serious amounts of information we would need an orbiter and several landers. Landers for the moons as well. That is going to cost a heck load of money to do that. |
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Post by dayton3 on Jan 16, 2020 4:54:24 GMT
New Horizons was merely a one off flyby. To get serious amounts of information we would need an orbiter and several landers. Landers for the moons as well. That is going to cost a heck load of money to do that. Fortunately the United States has a "heck load of money". |
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Post by lordroel on Jan 16, 2020 4:59:22 GMT
That is going to cost a heck load of money to do that. Fortunately the United States has a "heck load of money". But what is the gain to explore planets that are far away compared to planets like Mars that are closer by. |
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