Apologies if this seems a bit trivial - it's just a personal hobby- horse of mine... Aaanywaay. I followed the links Matt so kindly provided and was somewhat...
I am either revolutionary, romantic or a sad old Doctor Who fan. Yours for time and space travel! (Clause 6 means capturing police boxes too) Graham -- In...
I totally agree with you on this. Socialist society will be the enlighthened society, will it not? Then the socialist society will know that for the sake of...
Terry: I'll puke to that one myself! How could anybody proclaim that humankind would lose its curiosity? It would be hard to claim that the whole space...
The space program under the actual capitalist system has only served the warmonger purpose of the rulers, the Iraq war was conducted using the artefacts that...
... The article doesn't say that a socialist society will abandon space travel. In the part you quoted above it says: "… would a socialist world eventually...
Fair point Lew - it's true, it does say that. But I still think the bit I quoted makes it reasonably clear that, in the author's view, a socialist society...
I don't want to be cheeky, but colonize other planets? You wont be able to build a Space-ship big enough, or live long enough, even to get out of the Solar...
Marcos: I truly know why the space program under capitalism was inaugurated, but I do believe that there are a number of scientists within it and many others...
James: Before you go on about the impossibility of traveling beyond the speed of light, please note that 19th century scientists believed that if one traveled...
I think humans are underestemating our abilities to create. We are creators, we can do anything if we put enough time and mind into it, sooner or later, maybe...
Not sure about the science there, Byron ... Anyway, it isn't necessary to travel faster than light in order to reach the stars within a human lifetime. A ship...
I think Justin took umbrage to my post. Well, to add to what Alan said. Socialists/humanists are free to put some clarification on this struggle, hell; there...
Space travel is a fun speculation. Of course the worst thing is where are the habital planets and relativistic effects mean a traveller would grow a few years...
The Gaia theory which speculates that the earths biosphere is a living organism and the living things within in are its cells, has a little spoken of...
Hi all I listened to a gloomy programme on BBC Radio 4 called "Costing the Earth". It is an environmental show which this time looked at population. It's...
I have had certain political discussions in several forums that are propagating the concepts of the Socialism of the XXI century, and the so called Bolivarian...
They are claiming that they did it two weeks ago. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml? xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml Even the longest journey...
The Canadian space program was going to build the fastest airplanes for travelling to space, but the program was stopped by the yanquis in oder to keep the...
Sadly, you can't believe everything you read in the Telegraph. Wikipedia has a good article on the subject of faster than light travel, which explains why...
Proxima Centauri in 45 years. Will you be coming back then? Jimmy. ... From: Terry To: WSM_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:22 AM ...
Jimmy: I think you can actually check out the science on the official NASA website. Yes, I forgot to mention that if one traveled at a sizeable fraction of...
Graham: Relativistic effects are minimized, or almost eliminated, if we could travel several factors time the speed of light. Those Trots might be nutty for...
Let's first take care of the problems of world socialism on earth, and then, we can take care of the problems of the space, let's worry about how we can spread...
We are all living under a dictatorship for thousands of years, under the so called liberal democracy all news are also distorted and controlled by the rulers,...
Hi: Einstein's speed limit only applies to the speed of matter or energy through space. Neither matter or energy can travel "outside" of space. However...