Lesbian Assassin wrote:

That's a wonderfully naive way of looking at the world. "If there was any serious scarcity, people would forget about money." Thing is, that money is a stand-in for actual resources... if desalinating (and otherwise decontaminating) ocean water were easy and efficient, we probably wouldn't bother using ground water at all.

I wasn't saying that it was easy... I was saying that it was possible... And if it came down to it, that's what we'd do... We're in no danger that we can't (or won't) fix... We just don't put forth the effort now because there's no need to do so...

As for the "naive" view that I have, perhaps I should put it a different way... If it came down to it, those in power would make sure that money wasn't an issue... Whether by force or whatever means necessary, the human race would save itself if it needed to be saved... Money is a human construct, our lives may revolve around it at this point, but "drastic times call for drastic measures"...

If you want to get really technical, we're not using anything up at all... fossil fuels are just being rearranged into less convenient forms. I'm sure that if a crisis were imminent, we would put aside our petty bickering over prices and funding and just figure out a way to reassemble the original fuel molecules, as well as recover all the heat that's just kind of bled off into the atmosphere.

Perhaps... But my thoughts are more along the lines that we'd find something else to use as fuel... Heck, we have that power right now, if we were to put enough resources into getting it started... In the event that it were necessary to carry on human life, we would simply make it happen... Again, the only reason things like this haven't happened is because the need isn't there, so we're not putting enough effort into doing so... And again, if the need were there, we'd make sure that enough effort were put into fixing the problem...

Entropy, shmentropy... if we need something badly enough, it'll be there.

Not exactly what I mean... It's more along the lines of "if we need something badly enough, we'll find a way to make it be there..."

Dareb wrote:

going to those asteroids could prove fatal if even one
mistake is made.

Yes, and walking across the street could prove fatal. Does not mean it prevents us from doing it if necessary.

When has walking across the street produced a rain of fire?

Canada

Does anyone here think there is a terrorist factor, it can'y be Osama i think because he is too busy on the run to launch a missile (must be radar), was it SUDAM? or maybe that Korean leader? Hmm.. Got any ideas?

Dareb wrote:

now heres an issue, we arent too far into technology and space travel. What about wars and sabotaging in space? Most of it is being dominated by America, dont you think the other countries other than America's allies would be jealous and goto many serious extremes to do anything in their power to cause as much damage and death as possible?

Certainly there is much defense at these launch sites, but theres NONE in space

Wow, very Hitleriffic.

Time for your medicine, Sariat.

*forces dried frog pills down Sariat's throat*

2.6 billion(*excluding price of laucnhing materials gas etc) is how much it took to build the craft. If i rember correctly.

I have no idea how much it cost to laucn it though.

My stepdad keeps telling me they used a heat seeking missile to shoot it down. He wont listen when I tell him the shuttle was moving faster than the missile can.

Jotdaniel wrote:

My stepdad keeps telling me they used a heat seeking missile
to shoot it down. He wont listen when I tell him the
shuttle was moving faster than the missile can.

Well, technically speaking the missle would not have to catch the shuttle, but intercept it head on... it was flying a pretty static flight path...easy to predict where it would be to within a few seconds.

But it has already been shown that there were severve temperature increases on the rear of the left wing just prior to break up - and the shuttle's flight computer tried to compensate for an unexpected hard left turn shortly afterwards. My guess (and the guess of a friend at JSC) is that some failure made the left wing flight controls pitch the craft over, and the flight computer was unable to correct the problem - this resulted in the craft breaking up...