I have come to the conclusion that man is never going to leave the solar system. A few one way trips by unmanned vehicles perhaps but never man. I\u2019ve pretty much given up on the idea of permanent stations on the moon in my lifetime or even my son\u2019s. While that makes me sad what really bothers me is that most people aren\u2019t bothered by this.<\/p>\n
Without technology beyond what we have today it just takes far too long to travel outside the solar system. Even Mars is a multi year trip. We don\u2019t have the technology for a round trip to Mars either. Theoretically possible? Probably but I don\u2019t see much chance of it happening in the near future. <\/p>\n
In the 60s we landed men on the moon and brought them home. It was an exciting time. I really thought that we\u2019d keep going and that a manned station was only a matter of time. Today we haven\u2019t been back in almost 41 years. There seems to be little interest in sending men back and even less in a moon base. Well except for science fiction fans like myself.<\/p>\n
Science fiction is full of stores with faster than light flight or at least ways around the limitation of that speed with wormholes or such nonsense. There doesn\u2019t seem to be any indication that any of this is even possible though. So no way we\u2019re getting out of this solar system reasonably.<\/p>\n
BTW this means that there are not space aliens visiting up either. That doesn\u2019t bother me. I don\u2019t believe there is life out there anyway. <\/p>\n
But boy would I like to see us explore new worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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