RE: Why your kids won't land on the Moon
Yeah - Right!
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )
I can remember sitting at my desk in grade school with a copy of the "Weekly Reader" (remember that?), reading about the upcoming attempt to break the sound barrier. There were a number of opinions from learned men printed there. Some held that it was impossible and a waste of money.
Don't worry about the tech side - if theres a buck in it, it will be solved or sidestepped. Worry about staying on Earth. All humanities eggs are in one small, fragile basket. This particular basket has a long and violent history of killing most of it's life.
Read up on it, Earth has seen massive volcano outbreaks, ice sheets at the equator for longer than the human race has existed, disease outbreaks, meteor strikes, etc ad nauseum.
This is NOT a safe place, I don't really think that there are many of those. We can spread the risk by living (as a race) in different places. Other planets, moons, asteroids, stations, etc.
The last super volcano knocked humans to less than 20,000 population, do you think we would fare better? Gaia has here own agenda and humans don't have any special place in it.
If we survive as a race it will be because we as a race made it possible. Hiding in a hole won't get it.
BobJ
