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RE: Lasers Could Get Us To The Nearest Star Systems (20 Years) and Mars (3 Days)
Great post, and nice presentation.
This is a real breakthrough that opens up an area that I thought was closed to us for all time. I think it goes to show that very little is insurmountable. Exciting times ahead!
I agree! Suddenly we have found over 2000 extrasolar planets and are finding more all the time and now we are working on technology like this that could get us there. With the proper funding I feel it can become a reality. We could be shooting little small probes all over the solar system. If the technology gets good enough it might not be such a big deal to send a probe some place for a school project. Just think about how hard it was 20 years ago for someone to take video footage of the upper stratosphere. Now we have kids literally sending GoPro cameras up on balloons all the time on YouTube which show the terminator. Maybe in 30 years they will just be shooting little probes to Europa and then posting it on Steemit!
That would be fantastic, and not too difficult to imagine now either. How about sending some to KIC8462852? I'd love to know what's going on there...
It's great how the advance of science seems quite slow most of the time, and then something happens that's so unprecedented that it almost makes you feel like the world has reinvented itself.
It does seem like slow progress sometimes but in other areas it seems really fast. The progression of electronics and communication has been pretty amazing in the last 20 years. I really think that has the capability to accelerate our learning to an entirely new level. Searching the worlds knowledge is so much faster now and if all that time isn't spent trying to find pieces of the answer then the final answers can be arrived at way faster. Also the connection of genius level work is more accessible. There was a time when these people would be working basically in isolation of each other. Now the information of research can be shared and expanded on so much quicker. If we don't blow ourselves up we can do it!
I think connecting the fields together is the key to solving a lot of our current problems. Still seems to be some dogma though and resistance to merging knowledge across specialities. I think it might be beneficial to us to start training and valuing 'scientific generalists'.
Deffo agree your point on self-annihilation as well. Humanity needs to be very careful