THE SAGAN SERIES (part 8) - Gift of Apollo

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CREDITS
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home - http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/to-build-a-home-single/id252685222
NASA - http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
In The Shadow of the Moon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_the_Moon
For All Mankind - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind
When We Left Earth - http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/nasa.html
Trinity And Beyond The Atomic Bomb Movie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_and_Beyond
Failure Is Not An Option - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_Is_Not_an_Option

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[IamBread18]

I wish I was there to witness this..

[sathvikp]

Colonize ALL the worlds

[pricemac]

@nobreath181818 I feel the oddest juxtaposition of Joy and hopelessness, Joy at our human race, and hopelessness at our lack of vision...

[nobreath181818]

Hard not to get teary eyed when watching these, damn.

[snaekz]

@AnteroX1234 Certainly, but who's to say we can't find ways around those complications? Artificial gravity being one thing. There are ways to keep radiation out too. They wouldn't be ideal conditions, nor would they be cheap by today's standards, but given desperate times we would obviously deem it worthy to ensure our survival.

Flat out giving up like you seem to be set on definitely won't get us anywhere, and certainly didn't in history either. There are no problems. only solutions.

[AnteroX1234]

@snaekz you should go read that pregnancy in space doesn't work

[snaekz]

@AnteroX1234 We most certainly won't need immortality. We can reproduce, you know. No matter how long the journey is we will still be there upon arrival. Not necessarily as the same individuals that left, but definitely as a race. That aside, there are several solutions to interstellar travel which by today's theories should be possible. Warp being the favorite, I believe. If Einstein's theories are correct, then warp travel is a fact which we'll only have to discover.

[alphablanch75]

@KarazhanIsCake its called a joke. maybe you should try laughing a little more

[SilviuDanT]

You can write thousands of reasons why space exploration is useless. But whatever you may say, I can't help myself to want to reach them...

[Nickname1718]

@Nickname1718 It took a decade for one of the most powerful nations focusing 100% on it and taking a lot of risks to make it to the moon. It's not likely that such focus will be used again in anything. This slows down more the stuff that needs to be done. Talking about money, do you think all that money actually needs to be "invested" in military stuff? I mean with half of that money you could have a healthy space program running but they keep cutting NASA's resources even more.

[Nickname1718]

@420n0sc0p3serryday Yo have any idea how much money is given to this countries with people dying of starvation? It's enough believe me, why does this not solve the problem? corruption mostly, but as you can see it's not because of the lack of money that this remains unsolved. When people say we need to colony other planets, they never mean: we have to do it in this decade. They mean it is time to begin the long process that will make it possible.