Scientists with the Norwegian Orca Survey and Orca Channel have documented, for the first time and in astounding detail, the birth of an orca and the newborn's first hour.
That’s a good post, and you’re right about nearly all of it. I’m with you all the way until your conclusion.
Without the experience of building and sustaining an underwater base, we die on Mars, if we can even get there in the first place.
A few things, first, there’s no doubt that we could have gotten there in the 60s we had the technology then, and we still do. But that’s obviously not the hard part.
Second, no part of a sustained base in space requires a base underwater, they’re a mostly different set of challenges. Honestly, I expect time will tell on this one (and pretty soon), the US and China are both racing to put a base on the moon, nobody to my knowledge, is planning a deep sea base.
And it’s quite understood that the moon is a stepping stone, if you can find water there, that’s the essential material needed to sustain life. But it’s also exactly what you need to produce rocket fuel. If you create a spacecraft capable of getting to the moon, refuelling there would allow you to get to anywhere else in the solar system. So while an underwater base could teach some of these lessons, I expect that In practice, a moon base will teach us how to live everywhere else in space. Because not only is that closer to the goal, it’s what we’re actively doing.
That’s a good post, and you’re right about nearly all of it. I’m with you all the way until your conclusion.
A few things, first, there’s no doubt that we could have gotten there in the 60s we had the technology then, and we still do. But that’s obviously not the hard part.
Second, no part of a sustained base in space requires a base underwater, they’re a mostly different set of challenges. Honestly, I expect time will tell on this one (and pretty soon), the US and China are both racing to put a base on the moon, nobody to my knowledge, is planning a deep sea base.
And it’s quite understood that the moon is a stepping stone, if you can find water there, that’s the essential material needed to sustain life. But it’s also exactly what you need to produce rocket fuel. If you create a spacecraft capable of getting to the moon, refuelling there would allow you to get to anywhere else in the solar system. So while an underwater base could teach some of these lessons, I expect that In practice, a moon base will teach us how to live everywhere else in space. Because not only is that closer to the goal, it’s what we’re actively doing.