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Tim's All Important GOP Endorsement!

Started by jimmy olsen, December 14, 2011, 12:05:20 AM

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The Brain

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Faeelin

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 16, 2011, 12:18:14 AM

The technology is too expensive now. Presumably there's a lot more advances to be made and eventually it could be some billionaire's vanity project.

Again, what major changes have we seen in space flight over the last 50 years which makes you think there are a lot more advances to be made?


garbon

Quote from: Faeelin on December 16, 2011, 08:25:04 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 16, 2011, 12:18:14 AM

The technology is too expensive now. Presumably there's a lot more advances to be made and eventually it could be some billionaire's vanity project.

Again, what major changes have we seen in space flight over the last 50 years which makes you think there are a lot more advances to be made?

To be fair - just because there is slow development in an area for a while doesn't mean that there aren't advances to be made.
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Faeelin

Quote from: garbon on December 16, 2011, 08:40:36 AM
To be fair - just because there is slow development in an area for a while doesn't mean that there aren't advances to be made.

No, that's true, but I just can't think of anything that would be worthwhile and so far all Tim and Peter have said is they hope/believe that at some point some radical change will occur to make ::mumble:: economically justifiable.

garbon

Quote from: Faeelin on December 16, 2011, 08:46:02 AM
Quote from: garbon on December 16, 2011, 08:40:36 AM
To be fair - just because there is slow development in an area for a while doesn't mean that there aren't advances to be made.

No, that's true, but I just can't think of anything that would be worthwhile and so far all Tim and Peter have said is they hope/believe that at some point some radical change will occur to make ::mumble:: economically justifiable.


Oh agreed, that's why I said to be fair. :hug:
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Eddie Teach

Quote from: Faeelin on December 16, 2011, 08:25:04 AM
Again, what major changes have we seen in space flight over the last 50 years which makes you think there are a lot more advances to be made?

Better computers. Advances in solar energy(so maybe the ship can refuel itself en route one day). Better understanding of the underlying chemistry and physics. I don't think we've reached our technological summit by a long shot.
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Ideologue

Quote from: Faeelin on December 16, 2011, 08:46:02 AM
Quote from: garbon on December 16, 2011, 08:40:36 AM
To be fair - just because there is slow development in an area for a while doesn't mean that there aren't advances to be made.

No, that's true, but I just can't think of anything that would be worthwhile and so far all Tim and Peter have said is they hope/believe that at some point some radical change will occur to make ::mumble:: economically justifiable.

Solar power satellites.
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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

katmai

I gladly support shooting Tim off into orbit, never to be heard from again.
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Ideologue

Quote from: garbon on December 16, 2011, 12:03:28 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on December 16, 2011, 12:00:57 PM
Solar power satellites.

What does that have to do with colonizing Mars? :unsure:

Nothing.  But you didn't say Mars, you said space, didn't you? :unsure:
Kinemalogue
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Grinning_Colossus

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That's big-D Democratic for you, Tim.  :P
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