Space Exploration Part 3: The Big Picture

Science Fiction author David Brin discusses our future in space. Where is the excitement in space exploration? And what about warp drive?
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[ANTISLAVEBOY]

btw NASA is just another agency no different from CIA, FBI, FEDERAL RESERVE. Look at the skies on a regular basis especially at night and at early hours-4,5,6 ams . Much can be learnt. Peace and light<3

[ANTISLAVEBOY]

The space program is a load of Bollox-SORRY. Its all a big stage show. We have always been part of a bigger picture that is being hidden from us. World hypnosis was the moon landings. I have seen several hundred so called ufos in 10/11 years , I have some great footage and some awsome pics . I need to make a video and put all my chemtrail and ufo pics in. WAKEY WAKEY RISE AND shine-this bloke has head up arse:/ peace and light<3

[JettBrennan]

WE can use a solar sail to lift stuff into space, maybe use hydrogen balloons to help with lift and support for the tether. Have a fleet of solar sail ships running a circuit lifting stuff into space all over the planet. Once all the system is in place it would be essentially free to operate, fully powered by solar energy.

[entropyembrace]

I agree with you about the singularity, if we don´t make a sane and decent world free of oppression now we simply won´t be able to handle the technology that the transhumanists are talking about. We barely survived learning about the atom´s internal structure and we haven´t evolved a whole lot since then.

[dixievfd55]

Glenn Beck is NOT a scientific authority.

[thislucidlife]

If the 'singularities' make me a sci-fi deity in my lifetime, the first thing I'll do is download David Brin's brain patterns. I wonder if the RIAA would get the job of 'great thinkers' copyright regulation?

[flashvideofan]

What we have seen so far with space tourism have been very lightweight designs for lifting small number of paying passengers into near space. I cannot see this having any effect on reducing cost per kg into orbit. Any design for lifting heavy loads needs to be radically different.

By contrast the British designed Skylon space plane is a reusable vehicle for heavy load lifting (or 60 space tourists using an add-in module) that is not far off being production ready.

[aswani69]

Get a lav mic. You can buy them for 20 bucks at radio shack.

[JohnHunt2001]

Yeah, basically agree. Leave warp drive to Sci Fi. Let's figure out how to develop space and start our first space colony. That we can do. The rest can come later.