A Firefly Future? | Jupiter@Nite | 9.8.10

A keen observer of the news will have noticed a constant and steady march towards exploring and learning more about our own solar system. Many believe it's unlikely man could travel beyond our solar system, and the very task of man visiting a neighboring planet such as Mars may be the absolute limits of our technology for the next 100 years.

We've talked in the past about deep space travel, faster than light travel, and even worm holes and black holes. Tonight we take a practical look at space travel, and what our local space neighborhood might look like in roughly 100 years!

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Science & Technology

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• Near Earth
• Orion
• Asteroid
• Mars
• Colonization
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[yesamasa]

I have an idea...let's stop beating the hell out of this planet and stay here. Should be a world wide limit on child bearing..mandatory hysterectomy after one birth..stillborn or alive. Otherwise, simple math tells you that we run out of resources if we continue multiplying at such a rate. I can't believe everybody has given up on our survival on earth.

[Hughesburner]

We won't leave earth until we have to..after we totally screw it up. Totally agrees with njdss4 below also.

[Raso719]

That "bioship" you showed was an Island 3 Space Colony. I'm a gundam fan, I know an Island 3 when I see one.

[fife2020]

Check out the Joint European Torus where they have created plasma burning 100 million degrees using the tokamak reactor (cool name) also International Experimental Reactor which is being built right now. I just learnt all this last night so... I'm so excited that I just can't hide it.

[drnapster]

the intro to all these shows are epic!

[njdss4]

All this space stuff sounds good, but even if we started building a lot of this stuff right now it would take half a century before it would be usable, and that would be without any interference from political agendas, wars, or accidental setbacks. It's sad that the odds are I won't even see our species colonize the moon within my lifetime. We're too slow to get anything done.

[LordJosephDeBurg]

send BRAINS in robots... a new age space traveler. seriously, think about it. leave your environment behind

[fighterpiolt1992]

i have an idea of an invention of an engine that would take man to mars in two months but i carnt get any investers

[optimaloptimusprimus]

Twitter use REALLY !.. that's lame. We are NOT realy to goto mars. Is would cost 1 Trillion dollars to build a moon base. It would cost alot more to goto mars THE RIGHT WAY With Gravity of some kind. BTW the wheel in space is OLD news.

[HDErikBlog]

Jupiter Mars flight is sponsored by Coca Cola. Remember federal law number one, no Pepsi on board.