19th September 2005, 7:58 PM
I should have guessed the Commander here wouldn't approve of exploration.
Well, guess what? There wasn't anything "out there" when we left Africa, or went to the New World. Now there is. Do you see what I'm saying son? Exploration, is like a good yam, and when that yam wins the miss yam of America contest, and all the other rooted vegetables get all jeleous of the talk show oppertunities that yam has been offered, they will see it does not matter to the yam, for it has been selected to be the FIRST YAM ON THE SUN!
Moving right along, the thing about the present is that it keeps moving. You can't just stay still, because the very definition of death is inactivity. The main reason humanity has even reached this point is because we adapted to new situations.
That said, it's best to focus our efforts on research that is the most promising, most likely of yielding something. So, as of yet a manned mission to Jupiter will have to wait (I don't want half a mile THICK lightning hitting me as I plummet through a planet with no solid surface to properly smack into), but a mission to start a moon base? That's something. Sure it's a dead rock, but there's some water there and not as much gravity. That makes it a lot easier to launch to other places from the moon, so we can travel to OTHER dead rocks. And, Mars may not have been so dead at one time. There MAY have been igsignificant traces of a form of life lower than shower mold, and that says something much greater than that! If we can get just one other world confirmed to have had life, then it shows that we, by all odds, aren't alone. Sure no alien life forms have ever actually been here or anything, but it would be interesting to think about.
What exactly drives you Commander? What is your goal?
Well, guess what? There wasn't anything "out there" when we left Africa, or went to the New World. Now there is. Do you see what I'm saying son? Exploration, is like a good yam, and when that yam wins the miss yam of America contest, and all the other rooted vegetables get all jeleous of the talk show oppertunities that yam has been offered, they will see it does not matter to the yam, for it has been selected to be the FIRST YAM ON THE SUN!
Moving right along, the thing about the present is that it keeps moving. You can't just stay still, because the very definition of death is inactivity. The main reason humanity has even reached this point is because we adapted to new situations.
That said, it's best to focus our efforts on research that is the most promising, most likely of yielding something. So, as of yet a manned mission to Jupiter will have to wait (I don't want half a mile THICK lightning hitting me as I plummet through a planet with no solid surface to properly smack into), but a mission to start a moon base? That's something. Sure it's a dead rock, but there's some water there and not as much gravity. That makes it a lot easier to launch to other places from the moon, so we can travel to OTHER dead rocks. And, Mars may not have been so dead at one time. There MAY have been igsignificant traces of a form of life lower than shower mold, and that says something much greater than that! If we can get just one other world confirmed to have had life, then it shows that we, by all odds, aren't alone. Sure no alien life forms have ever actually been here or anything, but it would be interesting to think about.
What exactly drives you Commander? What is your goal?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)