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[apelike]

12 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

Who on ‘earth’ would bring fake moon dust back from the moon? 😵

Let me just state this again.. The 3D printing experiment did not use moon dust!

 

Here you go..

 

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/11/20/lunar-regolith-moon-dust-3d-printing/#.XXlvTShKgtg

Edited September 11, 2019 by apelike
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[Top Cats Hat]

14 minutes ago, apelike said:

The 3D printing experiment did not use moon dust!

I didn’t say that they did. 

 

I said that an analysis of moon dust had shown them what as possible. The experiments used synthetic moon dust. Fake moon dust is something masquerading as moon dust.

[apelike]

17 hours ago, Top Cats Hat said:

The experiments used synthetic moon dust. Fake moon dust is something masquerading as moon dust.

No it used simulated moon dust which is made to be the same composition and has the same characteristics as moon dust and is hardy distinguishable from the real deal, so fake is a more accurate description. Synthetic does not apply to it as it is formed from the same natural chemical compounds found on Earth and not something made by using compounds made by a separate chemical process, AKA Synthetic.

[muddycoffee]

On ‎10‎/‎09‎/‎2019 at 17:07, lil-minx92 said:

Planet earth is dying at an exponential rate and the human race will die out long before we have the ability to colonise other planets ...

Most People have a false sense of how impossible sending humans to another planet is.

Basically it would take decades to reach the edge of our solar system with the fastest man made craft ever built. Getting to a suitable planet at another star would take thousands of years and we will all be long gone by then.

If it were possible to send humans for a trip that would take 10 years, they would probably not make it due to personal mental torture and possibly radiation poisoning. Humans would definitely deteriorate physically for long periods in space away from Earth.

 

[apelike]

1 hour ago, muddycoffee said:

Most People have a false sense of how impossible sending humans to another planet is.

Basically it would take decades to reach the edge of our solar system with the fastest man made craft ever built. Getting to a suitable planet at another star would take thousands of years and we will all be long gone by then.

If it were possible to send humans for a trip that would take 10 years, they would probably not make it due to personal mental torture and possibly radiation poisoning. Humans would definitely deteriorate physically for long periods in space away from Earth.

 

Now that is where robots could play a part.

 

If a way was found to use DNA to build a human or just simply put a human into suspended animation then it could be possible to send that DNA or human on a voyage to another planet. Robots could then be used to create a human from that DNA or look after the ones in suspended animation till they reach the destination so they can use that DNA. Maybe, just maybe that's already been done... 

[Phanerothyme]

1 hour ago, muddycoffee said:

Most People have a false sense of how impossible sending humans to another planet is.

Basically it would take decades to reach the edge of our solar system with the fastest man made craft ever built. Getting to a suitable planet at another star would take thousands of years and we will all be long gone by then.

If it were possible to send humans for a trip that would take 10 years, they would probably not make it due to personal mental torture and possibly radiation poisoning. Humans would definitely deteriorate physically for long periods in space away from Earth.

 

 

 

Yeah this ^.

Earth is it.

Setting off for new Earth, after leaving a mess here, is a pernicious fantasy.

Edited September 12, 2019 by Phanerothyme

[Top Cats Hat]

12 minutes ago, apelike said:

If a way was found to use DNA to build a human or just simply put a human into suspended animation then it could be possible to send that DNA or human on a voyage to another planet. 

The human body is incredibly frail so I can’t see why anyone would ever bother their arse wrapping one up in cotton wool and sending it long distances into space.

 

I suspect the future will be sentient beings amalgamated with technology which will be both intelligent and robust. Think Terminator, but with an actual human brain and consciousness.

[apelike]

1 hour ago, Top Cats Hat said:

The human body is incredibly frail so I can’t see why anyone would ever bother their arse wrapping one up in cotton wool and sending it long distances into space.

One of the reasons I also put DNA.

 

I agree (bold) but it has evolved and so far survived on this planet for many hundreds of thousands of years because it has multiplied successfully and become more intelligent at the same time. It has one vital thing that is important over anything else needed to replace it and that is it is very energy efficient. It has been calculated that the average adult uses around 120W of energy per day and the brain on its own around 25W. Try building a robot that can mimic a humans behaviour, can self repair from minor injuries sustained and at the same time be as energy efficient.

[Top Cats Hat]

1 minute ago, apelike said:

Try building a robot that can mimic a humans behaviour, can self repair from minor injuries sustained and at the same time be as energy efficient.

I agree with you that the human being is a remarkable invention but ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’, we need to be way more resilient.

 

A pin hole in a space suit and an astronaut’s blood will boil within seconds.

[apelike]

1 hour ago, Top Cats Hat said:

A pin hole in a space suit and an astronaut’s blood will boil within seconds.

That only applies if the astronaut is out in open space and not on board a craft designed to have its own habitation free from the confines of a space suit.