We were talking today and Phil mentioned the fact that money is going to the wrong places, wrong hands, it's being stolen essentially (my words) from the coffers of the people by the government leaders for pet projects.
In fact, we've spent trillions of dollars we don't even HAVE on welfare programs, on stupid research projects (like the running shrimp!) and other things that are probably somewhat less than helpful.
Why aren't we back on the Moon? Why isn't, as Ryan has asked before, isn't there a Lunar Base already? Why haven't, as I have personally asked numerous time, we got a ship ALREADY on the way to explore Mars? What has truly happened to the American spirit of Adventure? Why, with Space being the Final Frontier haven't we ventured out more than just to a mismash, slap-dash space station that the 2001: A Space Odyssey space station makes look like some tin cans and legos?
Why? Because we have people who do not have a vision for the future in place in Washington, actually. There are people with vision there, all right, vision to make their group or special interest groups more powerful, to shove Socialism down our throats, to steal from the rich to give to the lazy. That's why.
But I digress.
In all today I found three or four programs already in place to build a "Star Ship". I've collected a few links to the programs, as well as some for commercial space flight programs.
In reality there IS a 100-year star ship program being worked on, created by DARPA. I have not really researched this deep enough to tell you all facts about any of the programs. But, I did gather a few links that, in case anyone is interested might want to look at them and perhaps add a few new links to this thread.
Here's the list I've compiled of sites related to the building of a star ship to go out of the Solar System.
Will it come to pass? Not in my life time most likely. Mean time, I'll simply take MY ship and explore distant lands and islands of the Caribbean, Mediterranean and South Pacific.
I can't be a starship captain, but I damned sure can sail to distant horizons, and I can dream.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...s-2013-confere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Year_Starship
http://100yss.org/
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=27056
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/resear...tarship-enterp
http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ3Dtb5nti4 Project Daedlus
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08..._solicitation/
https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=d1...324245b18a6215
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2161/1
http://news.discovery.com/space/priv...rus-120716.htm
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1869/1
http://blog.longnow.org/02010/10/28/...-announcement/
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=18148
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3273422.html
Commercial Spaceflight:
http://www.commercialspaceflight.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_spaceflight
http://www.virgingalactic.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/index.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-space-science
http://www.ispcs.com/
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