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Originally Posted by CDavidNeely
Greetings and Felicitations,
I believe it is the destiny of humanity to expand into space. I have my ideas about what needs to change in human outlook and society to make this possible. I would like to get the input of those forum members interested in space colonization.
My considerations include:
1. The development of a philosophical outlook that includes the right to individuality and considers the health of the group as well. A space ship requires the respect for the individual while considering the health of the colony as paramount.
2. I think that the current fascination with profit and money needs to go before we can effectively expand. If the only consideration for space travel is cost then it will never be considered efficient to move out.
3. Even though this is a longshot I think that a level of world peace and cooperation is necessary. I don't think that total peace is necessary but I think that a more cooperative effort among humanity is.
While I appreciate your responses to the above criteria I would like to have other ideas proposed for discusion.
Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely
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good topic thx....
1. okay like the star trek prime directive, just forget about adding libs to the crew, I am sure they will have better ways for Tralfamadore to mange their economy and social circumstances...
2. I disagree, from where we are now money or profit may be the prime motivator or block. The cash prize for a space shuttle seems to have done well, yet the space station is lagging.......but I agree an altruistic concept is necessary, but it takes gobs of money from a movement to make it efficacious to carry on.......
3. I’d say cooperative efforts as to the materials and money to make it happen.
Overall, I think we have reached a dead end for now. Time, must be mastered, be it by wormhole exploitation or a new drive that will propel us. The speed of light supposedly being 186.000 a second is a hard stop right now.
The nearest star, Alpha Centauri C ( proxima) of the Centauri system is 4.2 light years…..and may have planets but the time it takes to get there presently would preclude such.
A Light year is a measurement of distance not time, so- one light year is 186000 X 60 X 60 X 24 X 365 miles there -ore, Proxima is 23,462,748,000,000 miles away.....if say we have a rocket that can travel at 1000 miles per hour, thats 3.6 million miles per hour....we can I think be reasonably sure of a speed right now of 30,000mps...so you can extrapolate from there if you wish as to relative times in transit.
We need a breakthrough.
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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.
So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.
Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.
The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)
