Haz Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Some great ideas in here.Please don't confuse great with plausable, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 I take it the postcard would be delivered by Rowan Johns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 on a serious note here....what is stopping us from taking a large spaceship thats quite slow, have a few families on board that mate and over the centuries, keep reproducing and so on until they reach the new earth? then they can send us a post card on how it went I think that would work......What's actually stopping us is that nobody can be arsed or afford to go into space at the moment. NASA aren't getting the funds required to finish off their existing projects, let alone try something new (which they don't have the balls for anyway). The biggest hurdle to getting into space is the amount of energy and money required to get stuff off the planet and into orbit - a shuttle has a pissy little payload compared to the amount of fuel required to get it off the surface so it's pretty much a dead end road to be going down. Personally I reckon those planes that can get just about get into space are our best bet - we just fly a load of those up and chuck some boxes full of giant spaceship parts (with little rocket engines on) out the back for collection by shuttle or something else we've already got up there. We could probably do the same with people. Unfortunately, like most geniuses I'll not be recognised in my lifetime so most of you probably won't see my ideas come to fruition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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