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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7571127" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>I'll see your Apollo 13 with an Apollo 1 and raise you a Challenger. The problem with space travel is that when disaster hits, it's very often catastrophic.</p><p></p><p>And, once you're beyond a few light weeks, communication becomes largely impossible. Even a single light year. And we need to make at least 5 light years to make the nearest star. Communication with home to fix problems just isn't plausible for most of the journey.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, because exploring in a tropical environment where food is plentiful and even water isn't all that difficult to come by in an area where it rains 300 days a year (yes, an exaggeration) is equivalent to space exploration. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> And, never minding I'm not really interested in the moral arguments of a pre-industrial civilization. The notion that children would even have a say in things is a fairly modern concept. And, again, your children didn't have to keep exploring. They could always stay on whatever tropical island you found yourself colonizing. Or they could leave and go to a different island. IOW, they had considerable choice.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now we're investing in multiple generation ships? Where exactly would the resources for this come from? We're talking an undertaking that, currently, would eat up the entire global output for decades just to create a single ship. And you want to make several? </p><p></p><p>Again, by the time you have that many resources at hand that you could feasibly build something like this, you no longer need to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7571127, member: 22779"] I'll see your Apollo 13 with an Apollo 1 and raise you a Challenger. The problem with space travel is that when disaster hits, it's very often catastrophic. And, once you're beyond a few light weeks, communication becomes largely impossible. Even a single light year. And we need to make at least 5 light years to make the nearest star. Communication with home to fix problems just isn't plausible for most of the journey. Yeah, because exploring in a tropical environment where food is plentiful and even water isn't all that difficult to come by in an area where it rains 300 days a year (yes, an exaggeration) is equivalent to space exploration. :erm: And, never minding I'm not really interested in the moral arguments of a pre-industrial civilization. The notion that children would even have a say in things is a fairly modern concept. And, again, your children didn't have to keep exploring. They could always stay on whatever tropical island you found yourself colonizing. Or they could leave and go to a different island. IOW, they had considerable choice. Now we're investing in multiple generation ships? Where exactly would the resources for this come from? We're talking an undertaking that, currently, would eat up the entire global output for decades just to create a single ship. And you want to make several? Again, by the time you have that many resources at hand that you could feasibly build something like this, you no longer need to. [/QUOTE]
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