/sci/ - Science & Math

We must go back

>>15192611
my wallpaper is cooler, because it's an actual picture

>No apollo 11 thread

>>12743939
Nothing familiar to give you a sense of scale

>>12730335
>Giving these people attention
Why? Just post cool space pictures, turn the tables on them

>>12725665
Honestly at this point I agree. Believe me no one has more contempt for my own inaction and cowardice but me.

But this is straying waaaay to far from the point of this thread.

>>12725684
I know the difference between Marxism/Communism/Socialism/whatever. /his/ is my second favorite board after /sci/. This guy was a literal, "we should overthrow the government in favor of a worker's republic" type faggot. Also colonialism was no more evil than anything else any other group of humans have done to eachother. Trying to pretend that no group of people is without sin is silly. Not to mention for people on the left the issue isn't even really with colonialism, it's just an excuse to use white straight males as the one socially acceptable hate group.

>>12641786
Yep, no good response. You've been thoroughly spanked, and now can only cry like the mental child you are.

So anyways....

>>11641081
>Are there really that many resources in our solar system alone?
The non-Solar mass of the Solar system is like several million times greater than the total mass of the Earth, and we've used maybe .001% of the total mass of the Earth. Now obviously precious metals and other important resources are probably a higher percentage but not by much. But just in rough figures anything that exists on Earth exists in a million times greater quantity in the Solar system. Of course a lot of that material is effectively beyond Human acquisition, but by the time we start running out of easily aquirable resources (several thousand years), we could start extracting matter from planetary cores or even simply converting all matter into whatever we desire. The Sun itself will continue to produce nearly limitless energy for billions of years.

I never meant to imply Humans wouldn't have any reason to settle other star system, merely that there would be no logical economic reason to do so for a very long time. See my post again. I mentioned religious or political settlements, scientific ventures, etc. But any interstellar human colony will be done for "human" reasons, not economic or survival reasons. If people colonize another system it will not be because we "have to," but because we "want to."

What scientific discoveries were made from putting men on the Moon?

It's a real shame that the triumph of apollo program is lost in todays world.
We need to go back.

I feel the same way when I look at the moon.
>fuck me, twelve guys walked up there