“if you can make it to orbit, you’re halfway to anywhere”
it’s a famous quote but i forgot who said it. it means that the most challenging part in building a rocket and flying anywhere, is building the rocket. like, once you have a functioning rocket, it doesn’t make much difference whether you use it to achieve orbit around Earth or whether you use it to fly to another planet. That’s why Earth’s orbit is actually a pretty useful target destination for testing the rocket.
it was never going to be space travel, not this century
probably not the next one either
I mean, commercial space travel already exists. Just not for the poors. We have to wait for beltalowda.
It’s not space travel when they barely even leave the atmosphere.
K
A century is a long fuckin time for technology to remain completely stagnant. I stand by my statement.
And a century is a blip in the face of building a sustainable, long-term habitat anywhere else. So what if we have rockets, there’s nowhere to go.
“if you can make it to orbit, you’re halfway to anywhere”
it’s a famous quote but i forgot who said it. it means that the most challenging part in building a rocket and flying anywhere, is building the rocket. like, once you have a functioning rocket, it doesn’t make much difference whether you use it to achieve orbit around Earth or whether you use it to fly to another planet. That’s why Earth’s orbit is actually a pretty useful target destination for testing the rocket.
mars is gonna be the next america. it’s gonna be hypercapitalistic and pay no respects to the poor. be glad you don’t experience it.