Human space exploration in the future

[truthmouthpiece2]

most important phrase of the vid : "18 humans have seen earth from the moon, floating in the universe, and said WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THIS PLANET"

[trakkaton]

There is no viable alternative to "Mars to stay". Mars is a one way-ticket or a no-way ticket.

[mittROMNEY666]

we should send a probe to explore the furthest reaches of uranus

[klober23]

I would gladly go to mars even if I knew I would never return to Earth.

[TheSkabal]

penis

[captainrichspicedrum]

penis

[vagu14]

i bet he s refering to that poulakis guy

[vulcanlane]

wouldn't it be easy to find willing (older) astronauts for the far less problematic "non - return" mars mission proposal? or do they find the idea "sad"?

[FederationAdmiral]

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go." -Tom Hanks

[Minus3band]

its good quote but don't credit the actor credit the writer....

[rick53000rick]

The few who can appreciate the heavens understand the importance of exploration.

Over thinking, analyzing and begging for funds with governments who withhold gained knowledge paid by tax payers is simply wrong.

We the public get filtered awareness of space exploration sometimes years after the fact, but your tax contribution must always be correct and unfiltered.

In 1976 we explored Mars with the Viking landers. 33 plus years later we're performing somewhat of the same test. :(

[Diamond4440]

Excellent

[rufousme]

Think about it planet earth this marvel of creation or whatever humans may refer to it as ,is already a space ship travelling through the cosmos if we look after it humanity can travel much further in comfort (well for some) no need for suits or protein pills all these rockets are a total waste of money and funds should be redirected to looking after the earth and keeping it healthy.

[iopener418]

It's a fairly useless as a spaceship if it keeps going round in circles! Instead of going on holiday for a couple of weeks you could stay at home and drive around your back yard the whole time, but which one is more worthwhile?

As for a "total waste of money" I'm afraid that demonstably is rubbish. Without human space exploration we would lack a huge amount of technology that benefits us all hugely. Without it we would have far less of an idea of the problems facing our planet!

[rufousme]

Iopener needs to look outside the solar system,sure the earth spins On its own axis and orbits the sun but also the whole solar system is moving about the center of the galaxy wich itself is travelling through space so one could hardly assume that its comparable to driving around a garden .Without wasting so much money on human space exploration we could have developed technology that benefits us all hugely.We can view the earth and see our problems without 1 human going into space.

[Valkyriefury]

You are everything wrong with humanity.

On a side note, I do think that we need to have private parties exploring space.

[rufousme]

Please a little more info, Its a pretty big statement to suggest that i am every thing wrong with humanity as there is so much wrong with it lol how about being a little more specific.

[dasheriff001]

no no no no no

[rufousme]

You shure are a person of very few words

[dasheriff001]

"shure" = 'sure'.

Your comment is just silly, how the hell are you able to communicate with me? Thanks to the work done to reach out into space.

It is absolutely essential that we continue with space exploration, it is Steven Hawking said "we can't keep all our eggs in one basket".

I am extremly thankful that you are not in a position power.

[rufousme]

Humans didnt need to travel into space for me to be able to communicate with you.

Since you are so pedantic about my spelling maybe you should take a close look at your own sentence structure "it is Steven Hawkings said" .

The feelings mutual about the position of power thing also.

[OkashaSH5]

"your" = 'you're'

[korndog86]

lol. if we know that 2012. that their is the possibilities of earth being unlivable. so at that point. we would have to go in to space to save are life funny no that not funny because i think it is funny because if the end of the world as we know it ended. and we all are still worried about 1 trillion. lol ya and when the end comes then what will all of us do. or we are fucked and we are going to need 500 trillion anyways so we are fucked. to save life. think about it can be done peace

[korndog86]

we need to move fast 2012 we can save people if we work alot to getter

[danny4572]

lmao u actualy believe dat crap

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

I laugh at these assholes who beleive the world is gonna end in 2012.How sad they are!

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

Keep fooling yourself, "Nigga" .

[hyperdude144]

@sehoujay N00b

[risecolt]

The more we know the less we fear? I don't know really. The fact that our Universe is not alone, and that it is just a gigantic buble floating arround.... that scares me, because what is really outside our universe. and even worse... what is, really our universe? Is it just a cell inside an organism? on the other hand, maybe we are superior?

[TECHKLEC]

It seems to me that we were on the right track 40 years ago at the onset of the Apollo priogram when Werner Von Braun had plans to continue to Mars by the eighties.

[skilo837]

i would have to disagree. we are anything but "on track"

we can't even figure out how to co exist with one another.

our whole system is a hendrix to our advancement instead of people going to work to progress our advancement its just a bunch of monkeys working to buy a new ipod or new car.

i give our species approx 50 years to get mars terraformed and liveable or we will simply breed ourselves out of existance . our population increases by 80+ million per year so just do the math.

[TECHKLEC]

I nether said nor implied that we ARE on the right track now. Were you around to witness the evolution and demise of the Apollo Program?

[skilo837]

what does the apollo program have to do with what i said ?.

[TECHKLEC]

Because we had the momentum and plans to continue on to a manned Mars mission in the late sixties and early seventies, but the public lost enthusiam with the Moon missions and the whole project got shelved ion favor of the Space Shuttle.

[skilo837]

o ic ok ok .

i would have to say that mars is more important than the moon because i dont think the moon could support life and on top of that mars is way bigger than the moon and humans need lots of space to breed.

my statement before still stands though and all you need to do is look at the enviromental statistics and they will tell you im not making this stuff up its all documented.

[TECHKLEC]

That's fine, my original statement is based on where we were socially 40 years ago and it seems that you are mainly referring to the present state of affairs.

[alien8ted]

Check out the genius Robert Zubrin's video 'The Mars Underground' with their plans to achieve a manned Mars mission for $20 billion using in situ resource utilisation to drastically reduce costs. We can manufacture rocket propellant from the martian CO2 atmosphere, and terraform it with space mirrors heating the Martian polar ice caps to thicken the atmosphere.

[havymetalrules]

OK but lets not be too pessimistic too. The demographic transition hasd begun in almost all parts of the world and the +75m / year will begin to decrease to even stabilise at some point. Some countries are losing inhabitants already and the biggest one China, is on its way to stagnation. Even if conflicts exist, they have never been able to totally impede scientific progress. I wish we ll be able to progress quickly in space exploration as well as continue to progress in clean energies down here

[FrostfeverEU]

@TECHKLEC Braun had planned a space station which could household 60 people and launch missions to luna and mars, it could have been done, instead we get these tin can ISS and satellites which only last a few years.. :(

[seamuspowers]

@FrostfeverEU problem is our governemnts refuse to put any emphasis on these programs. It seems our governments work against science and important matter rather than exploring and advancing ourselves. we can do it, its just our shitty governemnts do not want to put any funding in it.

[TheMarknz101]

@TECHKLEC Yeah it seems all talk and no go

[Clausfarre]

These plans is what makes it worth lookin 20-30 years ahead in time and actually feel premature excitement. Shining lights in a world of crap.

[sheepwshotguns]

youtube needs to feature one of your videos.

people need more exposure to the wonder, awe, and intrigue science can provide.

[trakkaton]

@sheepwshotguns

Oh yeah, the wonder of science. Like the BP oil spill. Chernobyl. Forsmark. Rabbits in Australia. Harrisburg. Arsenic water in Bangladesh. Swine flu scare tactics. Millions of murder machines. Contergan. Nukes. Nuclear waste. And everytime the lesson was learned to never learn the lesson.

[sheepwshotguns]

@trakkaton

im sorry, i have a hard time understanding fool. are you trying to say that science and education is a bad thing?

[trakkaton]

@sheepwshotguns

Learn to read.

[sheepwshotguns]

@trakkaton

ok, but only if you learn to breathe from your nose.

[trakkaton]

@sheepwshotguns

So all you can come up with is a display of severe semantic analphabetism and nonsensical, asinine babble?

[CookieMonzta1995]

@trakkaton Yes.... -.- he probably means due to people being religious or wondering about stuff actually learn why exploration in space is good.