Comments on: Are DARPA and NASA planning interplanetary travel? http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/ The official Derren Brown Blog Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Joe Dyndale http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/#comment-68603 Joe Dyndale Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:18:18 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14487#comment-68603 In response to the title: I sure hope so! If they weren't even planning to accomplish this we'd all be in huge trouble. Within the next 100 years or so mankind will either have to take *drastic* measures in regards to population control, or colonize another planet. There's no way around it. If we're gonna go for the colonization thing (which I sincerely hope is the case), then we're already lagging way behind. It's easy to think of money spent on such research is wasted and much better spent saving starving children i Africa. Don't get me wrong - of course we shouldn't neglect our responsibilities towards developing nations - but the survival of mankind depends on us either being willing to kill off huge numbers of people every once in a while or being able to colonize other planets. In response to the title: I sure hope so! If they weren’t even planning to accomplish this we’d all be in huge trouble. Within the next 100 years or so mankind will either have to take *drastic* measures in regards to population control, or colonize another planet. There’s no way around it. If we’re gonna go for the colonization thing (which I sincerely hope is the case), then we’re already lagging way behind.

It’s easy to think of money spent on such research is wasted and much better spent saving starving children i Africa. Don’t get me wrong – of course we shouldn’t neglect our responsibilities towards developing nations – but the survival of mankind depends on us either being willing to kill off huge numbers of people every once in a while or being able to colonize other planets.

]]> By: Svlad Cjelli http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/#comment-68573 Svlad Cjelli Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:24:56 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14487#comment-68573 Well, duh NASA being into interplanetary travel and experimenting with propulsion. Well, duh NASA being into interplanetary travel and experimenting with propulsion.

]]> By: jibjib http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/#comment-68572 jibjib Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:14:19 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14487#comment-68572 whats the point if you cant travel faster than light? i think people forget earth is a pretty cool place to begin with whats the point if you cant travel faster than light? i think people forget earth is a pretty cool place to begin with

]]> By: Martin Orman http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/#comment-68540 Martin Orman Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:18:32 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14487#comment-68540 you wouldn't get very far in a hundred years. This would only be useful for our nearest neighbours. Still, it's worth doing. you wouldn’t get very far in a hundred years. This would only be useful for our nearest neighbours. Still, it’s worth doing.

]]> By: roz http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/#comment-68532 roz Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:18:05 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14487#comment-68532 yes, NASA would like to travel back to the time when it got funding! yes, NASA would like to travel back to the time when it got funding!

]]> By: Mark http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/#comment-68526 Mark Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:31:11 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14487#comment-68526 I read the other end of the stick on this one. That whoever is to board the spaceships will not return to earth alive. I guess there's enough fanatics to go round. Not sure I'd particularly like to be one of them but if a man's dream comes true and man's dream comes true. The few years bit bugs me though. One moment it's impossible - next minute it's gonna happen in a few years. I read the other end of the stick on this one. That whoever is to board the spaceships will not return to earth alive. I guess there’s enough fanatics to go round. Not sure I’d particularly like to be one of them but if a man’s dream comes true and man’s dream comes true. The few years bit bugs me though. One moment it’s impossible – next minute it’s gonna happen in a few years.

]]> By: Lynsey Newton http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/darpa-nasa-planning-interplanetary-travel/#comment-68523 Lynsey Newton Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:18:40 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14487#comment-68523 I suspect that they have had this technology for a LONG time now but are only now just making it public. I suspect that they have had this technology for a LONG time now but are only now just making it public.

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