Compounding my ongoing disappointment with the current Nasa space program is the fact that they are still talking about this rubbish life raft technology idea. Starting from the International Space Station they'll fire a capsule off to sail the solar winds until it reaches Mars… How incredibly dull. And the BBC make it even worse by posting a picture of the most boring looking space craft you've ever seen.
Why can't they design something new that would capture everyone's imagination? They’ve built a stealth bomber yet still they still persist in designing new crafts to look like something out of the 1960’s. Why? I have decided its time we should have a word with the estate of Gene Roddenbury and borrow the specs for the Starship Enterprise. You can't beat that design. It just works on so many levels. And its got warp engines so we could be there in a few seconds...
1960's Tin can with sails (The Orion Space craft)
Starship Enterprise
Which one would you rather go into deep space with?
But seriously, if you could build something that didn't look like an escape pod from star wars with a couple of sails cellotaped on it everyone would be properly excited. Or I would anyway. And we don't want to wait. I want to see a man on the moon asap. Nothing brings the world together like a bit of space action. Plus we could actually make some astonishing discoveries impossible to achieve from orbit.
Nasa need to get on with it and invent some kind of cold fusion hyper drive. Surely it can't be that difficult? Do they realise we're in the 21st century now? I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to have a hover board and a flying car. Instead i've got an Xbox 360 and a Volvo that looks like a square boat (See below).
Flying Car
My Volvo
Bah. Why can't they just get on with it? Plus I reckon they will definitely find life on Mars under the surface. So they should bring that little landing mission forwards too. They've found life on earth that doesn't need oxygen and this only provides more evidence that the clouds of methane emanating from below the surface of the red planet are probably swarms of algae around underground hot vents. Or in a better scenario it might be an underground city of methane breathing super men. How cool would that be?
Ok this has been exceedingly geeky. This blog is supposed to be about music and other fun stuff. But I do love space and physics so I may occasionally express my ongoing disgust at the lack of progress being made at the final frontier of human exploration.
I feel for the likes of Lovell, Armstrong and Cernan and if I feel like this imagine how disappointed they must be. Poor buggers. Come on Major-General Bolden and Mr. Obama, please lets go back to the moon. I’m bored of firing random stuff into it. Lets go make some real discoveries.
Ok this has been exceedingly geeky. This blog is supposed to be about music and other fun stuff. But I do love space and physics so I may occasionally express my ongoing disgust at the lack of progress being made at the final frontier of human exploration.
I feel for the likes of Lovell, Armstrong and Cernan and if I feel like this imagine how disappointed they must be. Poor buggers. Come on Major-General Bolden and Mr. Obama, please lets go back to the moon. I’m bored of firing random stuff into it. Lets go make some real discoveries.
Ta,
Mule x
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