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1/2 a century later (+1 day), anyone really disappointed in our... Spacing? -- bourbonstreet 07/21/2020 4:48PM Behind. The Shuttle was a waste. Should have used Moon as the space station -- Nelsonia Hokie 07/22/2020 5:26PM Behind schedule DUE TO manned program. To this day I don't know what the -- 81_Hokie 07/22/2020 06:32AM The STS got us the ISS and the Hubble. -- Hokie CPA 07/22/2020 11:34AM You sort of made my point... If what we've learned is how the human body -- 81_Hokie 07/22/2020 1:49PM Way behind schedule. We went from first American in space to walking on -- hokiemas 07/21/2020 7:52PM Probes are great. Agry ** -- HokieAl 07/21/2020 8:01PM I love anal probes ** -- FfxStationHokie 07/21/2020 8:16PM Has to be a Uranus joke there somewhere...BTW, it is a gas giant. ** -- Vtskier1 07/21/2020 9:50PM <Adam>Actually, Uranus is an ice giant.</Connover> ** -- Hokie CPA 07/21/2020 10:11PM ^^Never been abducted^^ -- MP4VT2004 07/21/2020 8:03PM ...agry. Or at least a Lunar Station (orbital). -- bourbonstreet 07/21/2020 7:59PM That's what happens when the aliens tell you "don't come back." -- MP4VT2004 07/21/2020 7:54PM I have some bite sized Mars Bars in my freeze, I'm sure they're form Mars. ** -- 7Hokie1 07/21/2020 7:15PM I have a Milky Way ** -- TexasGobbler 07/21/2020 7:28PM Really? ** -- FfxStationHokie 07/21/2020 7:18PM Half a century +1 year and a day. -- Hokie CPA 07/21/2020 7:10PM ...this guy ?... -- chumley 07/21/2020 6:50PM 3. Way behind. But with a different focus than others -- HokieAl 07/21/2020 6:39PM Agree on next 50 yrs. ** -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 6:47PM Okay, a bunch to unwrap here(answers assumes chemical propellants) -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 6:01PM You left out solar radiation -- HokieJay 07/22/2020 1:51PM 5)=poles. Tho yes. All that else wise plus solar-flares/micrometers. -- bourbonstreet 07/21/2020 7:57PM Yep. Can it go faster if we are willing to pay for it?. Change mass frac -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 8:36PM Is mining the planet for its natural resources a good enough answer -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 6:24PM Red giant Sol shouldn't even enter into the equation. That's 4+ billion yrs -- Hokie CPA 07/21/2020 7:17PM Last I heard, we have 12 years until Earth becomes uninhabitable. -- MP4VT2004 07/21/2020 7:39PM Chuckles, its down to 10.2 yrs now ** -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 7:51PM Dang...time flies when the world is going to hell in a handbasket. ** -- MP4VT2004 07/21/2020 7:52PM Well that is one of the reasons I have seen given in scientific magazines -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 7:25PM Gotta do it in stages... And if we get a few thousand years out of a Mars -- Hokie CPA 07/21/2020 7:32PM I agree with that assessment. I guess some people want to be -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 7:45PM All the Mars landers have been required to be sterilized before leaving -- Hokie CPA 07/22/2020 11:52AM Even if NASA officials do their very best to try to keep everything -- VTHokie2000 07/22/2020 1:04PM Interesting debate -- RTFC 07/21/2020 10:12PM I agree mankind should be skipping a few steps so hopefully the damage -- VTHokie2000 07/22/2020 08:42AM I prefer to think of -- RTFC 07/22/2020 09:14AM Valid points ** -- VTHokie2000 07/22/2020 09:15AM Just leave Europa alone! ** -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 7:21PM What's going to happen? -- Hokie CPA 07/21/2020 8:13PM Yes! ** -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 8:38PM Possibly. Asteroids are much cheaper for that. Low gee. Yeah, in ~5B yrs -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 6:26PM Oh I agree with you asteroids are cheaper and humans -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 6:34PM I think we should send automated 3D building printers to the moon to... -- EDGEMAN 07/21/2020 6:10PM Demo a few structures built that way here and add to tool kit! ** -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 6:24PM We need to bring back Mars soil ** -- FfxStationHokie 07/21/2020 5:59PM --->has a mars meteorite, izzat enuff 🤔🌠 ** -- astrohokie 07/21/2020 6:46PM really? {/shun!!!} ** -- bourbonstreet 07/21/2020 8:01PM JPL has proposed a soil sample return Mission. Not firm yet. ** -- ColoVT82 07/21/2020 6:20PM I just hope I'm around to see us set foot on the red planet ** -- astrohokie 07/21/2020 5:57PM How do you know we haven't gone further? -- EDGEMAN 07/21/2020 5:56PM We are waaaaay behind -- Baltimore Hokie 07/21/2020 5:47PM Beyond the Moon? We haven't ventured out of low Earth orbit. 🤷🏻♂️ ** -- bluehokie 07/21/2020 7:58PM True, but there is nowhere practical to go -- Tafkam Hokie 07/21/2020 6:04PM That money would be much better spent fixing this planet so that we don't -- NokieHokie 07/21/2020 6:28PM Talk to China and India ** -- 133743Hokie 07/21/2020 7:33PM Talk to every country. Starting with ours... ** -- NokieHokie 07/21/2020 7:42PM The US is far ahead of the major players. In fact -- 133743Hokie 07/21/2020 8:21PM This link inside says otherwise... -- NokieHokie 07/21/2020 8:41PM 27 month old story. The social and governance -- 133743Hokie 07/21/2020 9:08PM And? We have removed all kinds of environmental protections since then... ** -- NokieHokie 07/21/2020 9:16PM What? Like the overreaching"waters of the USA"? -- 133743Hokie 07/21/2020 10:24PM A lot of the world does much better. ** -- NokieHokie 07/21/2020 10:37PM Just think how much food we would have to take for the round trip. -- EDGEMAN 07/21/2020 6:12PM Grow it in the spaceship? ** -- NokieHokie 07/21/2020 6:29PM Takes a lot of light and water to grow food ** -- Hokie1992 07/21/2020 7:41PM Even with hydroponics? -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 8:05PM Studies with hydroponics on the iss are interesting -- Hokie1992 07/21/2020 10:46PM I would say right on track assuming Bstreet the 32nd does "his job" -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 5:39PM Raises hand....... -- GobblerCE 07/21/2020 5:11PM Spielberg got a better gig. ** -- vthhhi 07/21/2020 4:52PM I love space. But the idea of going to Mars is absurd. ** -- NokieHokie 07/21/2020 4:52PM I agree going to Mars is absurd. I would much rather be the first -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 5:53PM I'm afraid of going out too far into space because I might fall off. ** -- IB4TECH 07/21/2020 5:30PM You'd have made a truly horrid colonial explorer. With people like you, -- PhotoHokieNC 07/21/2020 5:01PM Well he’s no Christopher Columbus, that’s for sure. ** -- Stork 07/21/2020 5:37PM Depending on who you ask, that may be a good thing ** -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 5:50PM At least no one will tear down his statue. ** -- EDGEMAN 07/21/2020 5:55PM No, but he might lose a federal holiday ;-) -- VTHokie2000 07/21/2020 5:58PM I dont want to go to Mars, but would watch it on tv. ** -- CambridgeHokie 07/21/2020 4:57PMTech Sideline is Presented By:
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