[FlamingCobra]

http://www.universetoday.com/96289/the-audacity-to-dream/

“A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.”
– Konstantin Tsiolkovsky


Hi Tyler,

I just got this in one of my inboxes:

http://www.universetoday.com/96289/the-audacity-to-dream/

And pay attention to the logo at the end which leads to this:

http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2918

It's happening, however it's happening. Whether or not we had anything to do with it I don't know.

Hoping you're well...

Keith Chrystie BSc.


I highly doubt spacecolonization.wikia.com had anything to do with it.


Space. Because it is there. The time is now. Not later. This country was not built by those who waited. Right  now we found in the backwash of the coming age of space. Our country has fallen behind. Our country is weak. We lack in education and industry. Finances and power. The further we fall behind the less likely we will ever regain our position as lead innovator of the world.

The time is now. Now or never!

[Nuke]

if you go to space then you wont die when i nuke the earth

[stinkyFeet]

http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

Relevant link is relevant

[FlamingCobra]

I've been there before. I communicate with Al Globus rather frequently, actually.

[Bobboau]

could someone summarize the point of this thread for me please?

[Nuke]

this is gd!
there is no point!

[Legate Damar]

if you go to space then you wont die when i nuke the earth

And deny us your people as our rightful subjects?

How annoying

[Nuke]

dont make me nuke cardassia too. il use the special nukes, like the russians used to make.

[Legate Damar]

Terran attempts at humor always make me laugh for the wrong reasons

[An4ximandros]

Forget the planets, just kill the stars just like the shivs do, much more thorough, satisfying and leaves remarkable sight for the rest of the universe to behold.

As for the post, no words in my vocabulary can describe my liking for it.

[Aardwolf]

Something about space colonization? Nothx.

[FlamingCobra]

Aw. Nuke I was hoping you'd be the first one to move to orbit and weaponize space. Then you can nuke any country on the planet in a matter of minutes.

I was hoping you'd make your own space colony where you ruled with an iron fist and had a ritual where you impaled one person every month.

[Nuke]

im not really a big fan of iron fisted dictatorships, they all tend to fail catastrophically. its better just to kill all the people and eliminate the problem of government.

[Legate Damar]

im not really a big fan of iron fisted dictatorships, they all tend to fail catastrophically. its better just to kill all the people and eliminate the problem of government.

This is why your species will never amount to anything.

[Nuke]

my species? what makes you think im one of them?

[Alex Heartnet]

No.  no.  Just no.

Until we as a species can sort out the problems on our OWN PLANET, then going into space is a terrible idea.

[Legate Damar]

my species? what makes you think im one of them?

Whichever species you happen to be...

[jr2]

My bet says the good Legate thinks you're Bajoran. 

EDIT: Oh, and going to space before solving our problems isn't a bad idea.  Realistically, we won't really be able to go too far too fast, and there's a ton of resources out there, or so I'm told.  It gives us something to work together on, and unless some sort of FTL is invented, I think the closest we would go would be Alpha Centauri, at least for hundreds if not thousands of years.

[Alex Heartnet]

And what is there to keep exploitative corporations from just hoarding all those resources and not actually using them to improve society?

I would imagine that maintaining totalitarian control over any kind of colony or space station would be far easier then on earth, especially if the colony is built so that corporate executives have easy remote control over all of the space station's systems.

Being way out in space also make it quite easy to hide such from the people back at Earth.  You want to perform some secret stuff away from prying eyes, a colony or space station is ideal because of the extreme remoteness.

I know it's exciting to think about how technology can be used, but one also must consider its potential for abuse.

[Nuke]

dont worry i also have plans to nuke the universe, i just need something much bigger than a classic nuke. which reminds me i got to call up carl on the old etak device.