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Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by Osmium »

As a first step, I wonder how feasible it would be to have a constant presence around these planets and moons? A 'standard' orbiter, mass produced? I was reading about the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer mission, and it's incredibly exciting, but it won't get there until the 2030s, and even then it'll be a temporary presence.

The reason I think of this is that I recently came across this animation from New Horizons showing a 330km-high eruption that recently happened on Io:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)#mediaviewer/File:Tvas...

It's utterly captivating, at least to me, and I can't help but wonder what effect it would have on the public's imaginations to be able to see images like that every day, in high definition, from all over our solar system.

Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by ChrisGranger »

rasz_pl wrote: post #60
einrealist wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be even better if we could spend this amount of money to fix the problems we already have on this planet, like global warming, pollution and hunger and stuff.

You seem to not realize those are problems for us, human virus, and not the planet problems. Those so called problems are natures way of trying to balance things. If you cut hunger and make a breakthrough in healthcare you will immediately accelerate population growth, and in effect accelerate pollution and energy use. Earth is unsustainable in the long run. No one is willing to accept euthanasia, birth limits, basic…

Don't the nations with the best health care also tend to (perhaps not always) have slower population growth?

Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by devgutt »

Todo list: 1- Invent powerful machines for simulations and calculations(ok) 2- Stop with childish religious beliefs altogether (in progress - 5ys) 3- Review completely the social contract (in progress - 50ys) 4- Fix mortality (urgent - 100ys) 5- Explore the universe (2114)

Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by disputin »

devgutt wrote: post #63

Todo list: 1- Invent powerful machines for simulations and calculations(ok) 2- Stop with childish religious beliefs altogether (in progress - 5ys) 3- Review completely the social contract (in progress - 50ys) 4- Fix mortality (urgent - 100ys) 5- Explore the universe (2114)

5 years? How do you figure that?

Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

arethuza wrote: post #48

What a fantastic video. My favourite part: BASE jumping from Verona Rupes - the tallest known cliff in the Solar System - somewhere from 5km to 20km vertical: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110404.html By comparison the tallest vertical drop on Earth is on the surreal Mount Thor at 1250m: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/mount-thor-greatest-ver... [Some great details - like the Earth coastlines used in the asteroid…

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Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by spiritplumber »

thomasfl wrote: post #53

I would like to see a full length Wanderers movie. The optimistic feeling of adventure, travel and belief in science, would make it well worth spending a couple of hours watching.

It'd make a great sequel to Interstellar actually...

Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by spiritplumber »

a3n wrote: post #23
[deleted] wrote: post #6

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We went to the Moon, and yet we're still killing each other, or getting rich off of other people's poverty. Peace on Earth is not going to come from going somewhere else and proclaiming "Look at us!" It's not a side effect. Or, as the Quakers say, "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

It's possible for someone who was not yet alive when the last man left the Moon, to be a grandparent (in a healthy way, e.g. no teen pregnancies). We're two generations removed from having people on the Moon. That's a problem. What if we forget?

Re: Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

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Post by bjelkeman-again »

rasz_pl wrote: post #60
einrealist wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be even better if we could spend this amount of money to fix the problems we already have on this planet, like global warming, pollution and hunger and stuff.

You seem to not realize those are problems for us, human virus, and not the planet problems. Those so called problems are natures way of trying to balance things. If you cut hunger and make a breakthrough in healthcare you will immediately accelerate population growth, and in effect accelerate pollution and energy use. Earth is unsustainable in the long run. No one is willing to accept euthanasia, birth limits, basic…

To learn more about population growth and the many misconceptions around it, I'd recommend watching something from Prof. Hans Rosling. Here are a few things:

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-p...

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