Space & Exploration

[JCAll]

I beg to differ. You have to remember theres one thing people haven't picked up on yet when it comes to overpopulation and that is disease. The human race is too healthy nowadays, & our life expectancy has doubled over the years due to medicines and cures to diseases, bacteria and infections. Disease was natures original plan of trying to keep the population under control (survival of the fittest) But because we got too smart, we discovered cures and treatments that prevent us dying from what used to be a very common and natural way to die. I mean yes its all good that scientists are trying to find cures to cancer and aids and even the common cold... but by doing so they are also extending the lives of those who in natures eyes were destined to die from something that we now take an injection to protect our immune system from.

so when aunt Ada gets cancer, she has chemotherapy and radiotherapy and is saved. Its a great feeling to know her life is saved and she can live a few more years, and she beat natures plan. Because nature originally decided that for whatever reason, poor aunt Ada was going to die at 50 and her cancer cells activated. So if you then take that further out and you have 100 aunt adas cured, thats an extra hundred people still active in the population, add it up again to a 1000 and before ou know it you have hundreds of thousand of people if not millions who were intentially written out as a result of natural selection, yet science kept them going.

Its very cruel I know, but nature does not descriminate, if you get chosen, then there better be a treatment there for you, because nature keeps throwing out new viral infections and mutations to try new alternative ways of taking us down, like MRSA etc...

You're attempting to personify something without sentience. Nature is only a seeming random set of trillions of events every day. What you're describing is God, not the natural order.

Nature doesn't care if you live or die. It doesn't care if you spend million wiping out diseases. It doesn't care if you rebuild cities after huricanes, and doesn't care that the city was there in the first place. Nature won't even care if we render this planet uninhabitable, killing ourselves and everything else in our mad bid for survival or self destruction. The Earth won't weep for us, because it's not alive.

[Sabrina_Fried]

I think that the public eye turned away from the space program because it was made abundantly clear that only a very select few were ever going to go to space. For government-run space programs like NASA and the Russian space program, it was scientists and people who had to spend years training for a few weeks or months in space. For private ventures like the X-prize, it's wealthy people who can afford to blow thousands upon thousands of dollars on an interstellar flight.

Get the space program to where someone like me, not in the best shape, no doctoral degrees, not stinking rich, etc, could have a chance to go into space. Then people might be more interested.

[Charles RB]

Unfortunately, that will never happen (at the very least, astronauts will need to be physically fit).

[Michael P]

I tend to be skeptical of plans that mirror the plot of Simpsons episodes.

[Pro]

Unfortunately, that will never happen (at the very least, astronauts will need to be physically fit).

Less of a problem with space elevators. Which admittedly will take at least 50 years i think before they'd consider building one.