Comments on: SpaceFest Report #1

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Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:14:59 +0000

[...] Spacefest ended a couple of weeks ago, but I want to cover a couple of things. [...]

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:46:38 +0000

DC Comics has Adam Strange. Marvel has John Jameson…

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:29:36 +0000

>>> Calm the fâ€¦ down.

Oh, all right.

By: kroosing 2 '37'

kroosing 2 '37' — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:14:35 +0000

“I met up with Carolyn Porco. We sat next to each other and chatted for most of the flight. I wound up going out to get a late dinner with Carolyn.”

Holy Enceladus Geysers Fountains! Man, are you the luckiest bad ass in the verse or what? But you know, you deserve it brother, you just deserve this all! For saving the world from the twin demons of ignorance and superstition, and their Sibrellian priests. Legions of angels, huh I mean aliens, stand by you! (likely good-natured gaseous self-organizing electrified space dust Plazmozoids that got through Cardiff’s spacetime rift and got a visa from the Captain) Undeniably.

At least my dime was well spent! For once it’s not on calamity.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:53:45 +0000

Sean: You took the words right out of my post. People have been worrying this debacle (of technology vs. people problems) for decades without ever realizing that Malthus would have been right, were it not for technology. The world economy has been expanding faster than human numbers for the last two centuries and that has resulted in a (slowly) rising living standard(and falling population growth) for the entire world. Are there still those(many) people with substandard lives? Of course, but as technology continues to grow(and access to new resources improves) that percentage will continue to fall. I expect, once we have developed a reasonable economic model for the exploitation of space resources, we will see an explosion in the human wealth curve vs. population. Hope I live long enough to see it,,,

Gary 7

By: John

John — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:19:28 +0000

Hi Phil

Would love to catch your Hoax Moon lecture soemtime, however, I’m waaayy over here in Ireland, so if you’re ever in the area, give our IAA (Irish Astronomical Association) a shout and I’m sure they’d be delighted to hear from you.
PS. haven’t read “A Man on the Moon” yet, however, about to finish off Andrew Smith’s “Moon Dust” book which is quite good.
Oh, and if you’d like to know, I have my own website on the Moon, too, and have just produced the most detailed Moonposter around (an all-in-one poster that has everything in it about the moon — see http://www.moonposter.ie if you get the chance)
Cheers
John

By: Sean Manning

Sean Manning — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:02:15 +0000

Well, to solve some human problems we will need resources from off earth. Space-based solar power, possibly Helium-3 from the moon, asteroids and Near Earth Objects full of useful metals, zero-gravlty manufacturing, etc. I’m not sure if the Earth alone can sustain a billion First Worlders indefinitely, and it certainly can’t sustain 6.5 billion of them. Fortunately, it is not written in stone that we be limited to the Earth when we have a solar system full of potential wealth around us. The other point is that we waste far more wealth than we spend usefully on space exploration. The competition is not not “space vs. the poor” but “selfishness vs. charity.”