You make that sound like a bad thing. Look where our technological “advances” have got us.
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Cribbing on the internet?
If only that was the case. We’d live in a state of symbiosis with nature, instead of pillaging our planet at big scale, and putting every living species in danger, including ours.
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Cribbing about the word cribbing.
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True but I’m at the point where technological advances are probably our only route to managing things. Becoming frugal just isn’t on the majorities radar, which I concede plays out exactly as certain groups want.
How this ties into advancements in space tech is a good pub discussion for sure, and whether it’s morally and economically the correct route is really open to debate.
And Jurgen Klopp would have died of something trivial as a child……
Anfield? The reason we’re all here?
The fact that we so not is due to Eve (and hunger, possibly)!
Maybe, or maybe not. If not, he would have lived a long life as an excellent chief for his tribe.
More Tory scaremongering.
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Would have cost him £2000 a year to die young too.
Just great. More pollution for our planet to deal with.
If it is already in space, would it not be smarter to launch it towards the sun and have the sun burn it up?
The limiting factor is the amount of propellant required to move it. Even sending it into a higher orbit requires more fuel than to de-orbit it. Sending it into the sun would be orders of magnitude more fuel.
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I hope you’ve all enjoyed SpaceX’s first spacewalk today. The pics are ace. Not much of a walk in fairness just an opening of the hatch and a peep outside the burrow. Excellent footage too which proves conclusively that the earth is flat and Elon Musk is a hideous idiot who only hinders mankind.
Do we have any flat earthers on here? Certainly have a lot of Musk haters……
Looking foward to watching the flat earth kick back on that then.
Musk, yeah I dont like him. This is a billionaire vanity venture in the guise of “helping humans advance”. Sure he’s achieving things but its really about massaging his own ego
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And amost 60 years after Alexei Leonov did the same thing. In fairness, any new spacecraft would need to be tested. The question is whether they would be able to carry out repairs on orbital equipment, which, aside from fixed space stations, hasn’t been possible since the shuttle was retired.
Thing is if other space agencies felt there was a need for this they would go and do it. They’ve badically left Musk to launch satellites and play with his Mars ego thing. NASA and so on have been busy with probes, rovers and JWST etc. They feel they deliver better value at the moment.
The political will just isn’t there, well not yet it isnt, but will be soon when the US and China start racing to claim the moons polar regions.
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For the likes of NASA, it is cheaper to send up a replacement multi-billion dollar orbital observatory than it would be to develop a shuttle replacement.
If one of these private firms could develop a replacement themselves, it would likely be much cheaper.
The problem the scientific community now face, is there is little appetite for projects that don’t offer instant gratification. We need to send probes out to the ice giants but that would take 15 to 20 years to complete. Nothing has been there since Voyager 2, and New Horizons only passed because it benefited from the post cold war optimism.
The billionaire adventurers only seem interested in sub-orbital joyrides and pissing on the moon.
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In the words of The Right Stuff. No bucks, no Buck Rodger’s.
You mean like the colossal waste of money that is SLS?