Out of Pod Experience

In this world we have some absolutely, mindbogglingly brilliant minds. These people are diligently studying physics, designing military weaponry, and taking our overall technology leaps and bounds into the future. Every day someone invents something new. Computer software, communications, lasers that shoot down missiles, hyper-sonic missiles....

Do our nations not realize that if we ALL pool together, we could be sending ships to explore new planets in less than a generation? Physicist Michio Kaku stated that Star Trek, when it comes to influencing modern technology, is THE standard by which todays tech inventors hold themselves. Many, many of the things we see in Star Trek are not only possible, but already exist today. Doors that open and close by themselves, small handheld communication devices, and things that scan us for medical problems..... MRI's.

Currently, it seems everyone would rather squabble. Instead, we could pool together and explore new space based materials, new technology, and finding new planets. Heck, a company a while back was in news because of their aim to go mine space rocks LOL. And now we've got a group wanting to colonize Mars. But these are small beans compared to what we COULD be doing! I doubt we'll ever get to use a Transporter, but we SHOULD be reaching for the Stars instead of fighting each other over money!

Space exploration doesn't give many votes.

Things like: lower tax, better welfare and such do.

LOL no. Not at all. I'd rather it be a voluntary cooperation. I'm not a man who asks for things to be free. I can, and do, pay my own way, like I would think most people do. I used to have a lot to say in the negative about welfare, but as the economy gets worse I'm starting to soften my thoughts on that some. People should work, but when business are going out of business left and right, and the price to live goes up, you can't really do much about it.

Likewise, I wouldn't submit to a one world government. Ever.

But, it WOULD be a boost to economies all over this planet to go explore others. Finding new industry and moving forward. Look at us, we're stuck in the dark ages still. We're still doing the same crap that went in during the crusades, WWI, WWII..... It's no different today. We're still fighting each other. I did some of that fighting, and I personally just think we could do so much more with our time.

True, sending someone to another galaxy seems out of reach.

I was considering the idea of warp drive, or something similar, and thought, isn't it that the closer you get to speed of light, the larger you become or something like that, which will limit the amount of speed you can actually push? Maybe I'm off with that, but I do remember seeing some reason why light speed is impossible to achieve with anything other than light. Wormholes not withstanding, however I wouldn't have a clue how you would create one.

Mars takes 18 months to get to, unless it's on it's closest to earth in it's orbit, then it's 6 months.

Thing is we already have the tech right now to travel at 10-30% of the speed of light and send massive payloads into space and we have had the tech for the last fifty sixty years, the hint here is the downside involves a lot of atmospheric radiation :D

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But in saying that again things like that can be reduced with further research and resource dedication in such areas.

The problem is the Internet manifested itself and eventually proved that humanity is actually pretty despicable.

If there is no immediate method for profit from trying something new, the 1% is just not interested in financing it. They will frack the Earth to death before spending money on resources "elsewhere". It's more economically efficient that way doncha know ??

There is a frightening increase in the number of people the past decade who absolutely have no belief at all in science. Religious and sectarian wars are far more fun and exciting.

Besides, all people can talk about and debate about anymore are celebrities and scandals.

That's about it really.

Start Trek (Rodenberry) voluntarily created a *fictional* script where everyone volunteered to behave in a way other than humans have behaved for all of recorded history and poof the magical fairy land of the star trek world came to be.




It would? How do you know? Fact of the matter is you don't know.

What WOULD boost the economy of the world is if all of the governments of the world stopped meddling in the affairs of all the people in the world. Governments produce nothing, all they do is consume wealth and consume productive capacity, and do so by involuntary means.

Imagine all of the time and effort spent, by individuals and business, on complying with regulations.

Imagine all the of the time and effort spent by governments on making sure people are complying with those regulations.

Imagine all of the time and effort spent by governments on administrating their regulations.

And not least of all, imagine all of the guns and bombs, which is wealth spent and then destroyed, destroying yet other forms of wealth all over the world, from fields to pigs and chickens, houses, buildings, and not least of all lives.

Add up all of the wealth, involuntary stolen from the people of the world, by the governments of the world.

Want a new planet to explore and give a massive boost to the economy? Get rid of your governments.

I was actually meaning the reaching minds of Trek fans that went out and used those ideas and made a few of them happen. While Cell Phones may not have been thought of by the companies developing them as "Star Trekish" I would venture to guess that many of those that designed Cell Phones were Star Trek fans, and may have even been influenced by the show.

No, I DON'T know that going into space will boost economy, not as much as drilling an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico anyway. Not immediately. However, suppose you found new minerals in an asteroid.... Or on our moon. If there's a will, there's a way.

However, you're right.... Government's do indeed get in the way. Currently MY Government is doing it's all to cut down on freedom. We've cops that will kill you for punishing your child (spank, slap, whatever). They'll beat you up for filming them. They produce something alright.... Fear and resentment. I think they want it this way. They also make you into a criminal when you fly.

I don't believe in anarchy, but I certainly don't believe government should be involved in a peoples private lives. But, they are and they're recording what I'm trying as soon as I post it, because that's what they do now. Or maybe all along, and just now we're learning that it's going on. Whatever the case, we as humans are going to get NO WHERE this way.

As I sit and read these, and other, posts I am thinking, and I think it's all well and good to look at things from loftier perspectives.... But the fact is down here in the quagmire of humanity.... We've still got the same crap over and over again, since the fall of the Romans. If we can't learn from, and escape the cycles of our past.... We've no hope for a real future.

"Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who makes its laws"

Actually thats pretty standard knoweledge.