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What do you guys think about this? Is this the future? Personally, I think yes because SpaceX is basically the only innovator in the market. Nobody else seems to be able to really advance anything in the spaceflight sector. I'm really hoping to see this happen soon.

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I've already got one, they get boring after the first few trips into space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colonization of mars will happen, just not like in the movies and only if we don't annihilate ourselves first.

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Definitely the future. SpaceX said they had plans for a 21st century spacecraft, and they actually built it. Russia is still using Soyuz, and while it works damn well, there hasn't been any innovation. NASA can't do jack because the government gives them little and regulates the whole show. SpaceX being private also means they have a large incentive to bring the cost down, making space accessible. I personally will be lining up for a ticket, whether it be on Dragon 2, 3, 4, or whatever, cos that looks pretty luxurious too.

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Anyone that doubts the importance of space flight is forgetting the impact it made the 60/70

the spin offs from space technology are endless. 

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Colonization of mars will happen

 

We just need to ready our double barrel shotguns and BFGs and we'll be fine.

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We just need to ready our double barrel shotguns and BFGs and we'll be fine.

 

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I feel like we as a people group have bigger problems than space travel.

Sadly the American gov. seems to agree with you on that,that's why NASA struggles to get funds.

And no we do not, 99% of our world's problems are caused by people being people= ignorant stupid and closed minded. That's not something we'll fix anytime soon, however space exploration is a huge motivator in advancing technology. So it'll bring more than just real-estate on mars.

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Sadly the American gov. seems to agree with you on that,that's why NASA struggles to get funds.

And no we do not, 99% of our world's problems are caused by people being people= ignorant stupid and closed minded. That's not something we'll fix anytime soon, however space exploration is a huge motivator in advancing technology. So it'll bring more than just real-estate on mars.

 

I'd think it's because of the opinions of an overly entitled minority mattering more than the actual needs of the majority, with "advanced democracies" actually listening to those little twats. Not everyone's as dumb or stupid as you make them out to be. Heck, 56% of our problems is because western styled education systems are so anti-learning and pro-rationalization of the irrational.

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I'd think it's because of the opinions of an overly entitled minority mattering more than the actual needs of the majority, with "advanced democracies" actually listening to those little twats. Not everyone's as dumb or stupid as you make them out to be. Heck, 56% of our problems is because western styled education systems are so anti-learning and pro-rationalization of the irrational.

Well played sir. I guess I just lost faith in humanity. Musk is working on bringing it back though.

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In reality, beyond war and nuclear annihilation, the biggest problems Earth faces is running out of energy and over population.

 

Colonizing a planet/moon would help alleviate population problems (I'm not saying ship the poor to the moon. That'd be a god awful thing) but also we can rape a new world for it's resources, and maybe the Earth can recover for a little while

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I feel like we as a people group have bigger problems than space travel.

True, while space travel is not the most pressing issue a suprisingly large amount of consumer technology that we have today is a direct result of a spin off of space technology, so the doe help further our technology as a society, which can help us solve those pressing issues that we have. 

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We as a species will find the answers to most of our problems in space, even the answer to bringing us together as a species. The thing is that we make sure that Colonizing the universe isn't only left to the wealthy, that it's open to everyone. 

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that interior reminds me of the pagani huayra

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Aaarg, so many goosebumbs!

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Honestly, I can't see this coming anywhere close to Skylon in terms of innovation. There is already lots of information about Skylon on the internet so I will only link a couple. In short, it is a spaceplane that has the ability to run countless shuttle missions to low earth orbit in one day. It can land like a plane and take off a runway too, so the infrastructure is already in place. It is a SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) vehicle which means that nothing falls off it and has to recovered separately, like the boosters on the Dragon V2. The Dragon V2 seems to be obsolete already.  The first flight of Skylon is scheduled to be in the next two years.

 

Here is the link to their website: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/     

        These are it's applications: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon_caps.html

        This is the technology driving Skylon: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/sabre.html

        And finally, this video sumarises it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bkjiGGy0g

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Definitely the future. SpaceX said they had plans for a 21st century spacecraft, and they actually built it. Russia is still using Soyuz, and while it works damn well, there hasn't been any innovation. NASA can't do jack because the government gives them little and regulates the whole show. SpaceX being private also means they have a large incentive to bring the cost down, making space accessible. I personally will be lining up for a ticket, whether it be on Dragon 2, 3, 4, or whatever, cos that looks pretty luxurious too.

 

Why? It looks like a plastic baby seat. I'll probably be waiting till it costs 10x more then an airplane ticket before my interest is piqued.

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Very nice, Can't wait to see it in action bringing people to space.

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Honestly, I can't see this coming anywhere close to Skylon in terms of innovation. There is already lots of information about Skylon on the internet so I will only link a couple. In short, it is a spaceplane that has the ability to run countless shuttle missions to low earth orbit in one day. It can land like a plane and take off a runway too, so the infrastructure is already in place. It is a SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) vehicle which means that nothing falls off it and has to recovered separately, like the boosters on the Dragon V2. The Dragon V2 seems to be obsolete already.  The first flight of Skylon is scheduled to be in the next two years.

 

Here is the link to their website: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/     

        These are it's applications: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon_caps.html

        This is the technology driving Skylon: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/sabre.html

        And finally, this video sumarises it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bkjiGGy0g

 

Yes, this is obviously superior to the Dragon, but it is very much in the future. This thing is far from taking off. Dragon is already such a huge improvement from what we have today.

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This is odd, I used the search function as we were told by Windspeed. Not sure why this happened. Sorry about it.

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What do you guys think about this? Is this the future? Personally, I think yes because SpaceX is basically the only innovator in the market. Nobody else seems to be able to really advance anything in the spaceflight sector. I'm really hoping to see this happen soon.

If the Space Shuttle and Apollo had a baby, the Dragon V2 is it. It has the versatility of the Space Shuttle in a form factor that's similar to Apollo's Lunar Module. Sorry if this sounds degrading, but it still means it's cool.

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