mrstickball on 16 July 2009
Montana - I never said we had to sail the stars. Just get far enough to start gathering solar energy, and HE3 mining on the moon (which is part of that 'alternative energy' thing you just stated). We've been there before. We do it now. Just not in the quantities we need.
It took thousands of years to develop the boats and manpower to project numbers of people across a great distance. But that doesn't mean that boats couldn't go fishing in the local area rather quickly. That is my argument for space travel: If we could extend our control just 1 million miles away from Earth, we could probably solve all of the major energy concerns and future crises.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
