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- #1
- Posted: 09/05/2014 21:22
- Post subject: Do you think you will ever get to go into space?
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I haven't the energy to write a long post. Taking it easy today. 
Don't want to drag back one of my very old space posts yet Lounge could do with space topic. The question is simple, do you think you will ever go to space?
Consider how technology is advancing every day. One day it will definitely be possible. When it is so we will be able to go to other planets. 
Space is the way forward and I want to see the things in it. How about you? 
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denmarkman
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- #2
- Posted: 09/05/2014 21:52
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Maybe, but only if I get super rich, I figure.
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HazeyTwilight
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- #3
- Posted: 09/05/2014 22:01
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Space simulator's need to be made in theme parks where you use the wind used for skydiving, getting your harness on you and to let yourself float in the air like there's no gravity. Would that suffice?
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AlexZangari
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- #4
- Posted: 09/06/2014 00:11
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I very much hope so. It is on my bucket list.
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- #5
- Posted: 09/06/2014 00:25
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Nah, I don't have time to see everything I want to on this planet.
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benpaco
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- #6
- Posted: 09/06/2014 00:36
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I'd much rather go down to the bottom of Challenger Deep.
Or really, if I had my choice, I'd rather go down to some unexplored ocean territory, 95% of it is.
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Muslim-Bigfoot
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- #7
- Posted: 09/06/2014 01:10
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Can't give any less shit. Much more interested in the earth. Although I guess I'd like to see the earth in its full shape.
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- #8
- Posted: 09/06/2014 01:28
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Maybe. It's not something I'd spend my life savings on, but if it becomes affordable, it would be fun to take a trip above the atmosphere. If nothing else, I'd like to have a zero gravity experience before I die -- even now you can do a trip like that for a few thousand dollars.
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- #9
- Posted: 09/06/2014 02:43
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| benpaco wrote: | | Or really, if I had my choice, I'd rather go down to some unexplored ocean territory, 95% of it is. |
You might know something I don't, but there's a reason the ocean is largely unexplored once you get off the continental shelves: it's because it's a lot of nothing. Unless you really love ocean protists, MORs, or chemosynthetic communities, or you wanna see the stagnant pools of trash locked in gyres, you're gonna have a boring time, but I guess space is also a whole lot of nothing.
I fear that if I can travel to space, that would mean it's become a common thing and even gun-toting rednecks could take a space bus out to the moon.
What if we shoot an alien?
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benpaco
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Age: 28
Location: Missouri
- #10
- Posted: 09/06/2014 03:50
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| Kool Keith Sweat wrote: | | You might know something I don't, but there's a reason the ocean is largely unexplored once you get off the continental shelves: it's because it's a lot of nothing. Unless you really love ocean protists, MORs, or chemosynthetic communities, or you wanna see the stagnant pools of trash locked in gyres, you're gonna have a boring time, but I guess space is also a whole lot of nothing. |
I mostly agree with this statement, but have to point out that we can't KNOW until we're there. Largely, my interest is actually in Xenophyophores, giant unicellular organisms that live at the bottom of open sea trenches. They often live in huge communities and function a lot like giant underwater amoebas (when I say giant these things get up to about 8 inch diameters). My hope in life is to study them as fairly little is understood about their specific life functions, let alone how such a weak organism (if collected or picked up, the cell membrane ruptures almost instantly) is able to grow that large in 1 cell that deep down.
Additionally, I love diatoms and am convinced that human society will actually never discover every diatom that exists, though obviously most are surface dwelling. But my passion for diatoms has been long lived, frankly, as I just think they're gorgeous - I'd love to get one of Haeckel's diatoms tattoo'd onto my shoulder, actually. Course the INCREDIBLY cool find would be any sorts of chemosynthesizing bacteria, but my hopes aren't high to find those in any new locations personally, I think it's much more likely that those will be discovered accidentally while looking elsewhere for other things (additionally I really doubt that there'll be a submarine able to function with people inside at a hydrothermal vent, so it'd either have to be some rift to the mantle that we don't know about or new technology or some kind of cold chemo which would change the entire biological model as well as probably a few laws of thermo and what infrared actually is). Even just to be in the room with a ROV driver over a vent would be fantastic, though, just unlikely that we'd find any new ones while I happened to be there, much more hopeful to further understand a discovered species (such as the xenophyophores)
TL;DR I like algae and xenophyophores.
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