The eventual goal is to colonize the entire solar system and when all of the solar systems energy has been harnessed, or our sun comes closer to expanding into a red supergiant, we move to another star/planetary system.
The entire point of living is to colonize the galaxy and immortalize the...
Apparently, AIG is more important than creating a space-faring civilization as they received a bailout that rivaled the entire cost of the Apollo program and your projected $100 Billion.
IMO, establishing a permanent base on both the moon and Mars >>...
I would argue that the overinflated portions of the budget that Defense and National Security get are not useful. The United States does not need to have military bases around the world or still be fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. No one is attacking the United States. 9/11 was a one-time...
NASA has really been a sitting duck for the past 10 years. There has been little to no national inspiration for public interest in the space program and the materialistic general public cares far more about their latest celebrity whatever than actually achieving something as a country. I would...
Yes, in the long-term I believe the answer is with the private sector... but I am talking about within the, "gap" period which will span in the US at least 2012-2016 as there are no other manned rockets available in the United States. The Falcon 9 is still being tested for capability to fly to...
Obama exhibited retardation as he canceled the Constellation program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program, after 5 years of work and billions of dollars spent on the program. NASA and their partners in congress have been intelligent enough to salvage the Orion CEV...
This scenario consists of 3 Mathematics Professors:
Researcher A, Researcher B, and Researcher C.
1) Researcher A constructs a shortcut proof that a 3-hyperbola convex cone is compact.
2) Researcher A shows his friend Researcher B and they get very excited and begin to giggle.
3)...
Well, I am not necessarily saying that. Computer Science is definitely an easier credential to be employed with, but does it interest you the most? Would you be happier working with computers on programming or would you want to study the Universe and all of it's interesting facets?
If you...
The life of an astrophysicist is that of being nocturnal and spending the majority of your life studying a narrow-narrow sub-field like gamma ray radiation from galactic bulges. If this appeals to you compound it with the fact that you will have an extremely low-salary unless you manage to get a...
At this point I have no idea what I would want to within an exotic propulsion field other than I would like to be doing something with it! I haven't even started my education yet, I'm still finishing Grade 12.
Yes, I would be very interested in that if you were referring to me. If I am more interested in THAT side of things should I take an undergraduate in something more science/research focused like Physics and then do graduate work relating to Propulsion?
I'm also very interested in the same thing as Marioqwe (mainly Mars Colonization and the proliferation of 'Manned Space Exploration'). I am just unsure of how I can help my dreams actualize in Aerospace Engineering... it just seems like designing some specific part on some specific engine that...