[Mind's Eye] Re: are we as a global society moving forward or backward?

" It is also known based on today's science that 'we' can't make it in
outer space nor on most other planets. " – OM

"Can you provide some supporting information for this statement? AFAIK
the only thing stopping us from establishing bases on everything
except the gas giants is money. The technology is there it just the
funds that aren't." – Chuck

OK, first for the 'we' (read: body) part, I'll post only a few of the
Google hits from the first page when one searches for "body decay
during space flight".

http://journalofcosmology.com/Mars148.html

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/pdf/educator-microgravity_science_stu.pdf

http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(02)00930-9/abstract

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/02144/text/travel/body.htm

Now for the 'outer space' part... when one Googles "effects of
radioactivity in space travel" a few of the first 'hits' include:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_adaptation_to_spaceflight

http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report_astronauts-could-face-heart-problems-with-deep-space-travel_1529818

http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v4/n11/full/embor7400016.html

http://www.nukes.org/alien/alienlinks.html

Now for the last part of my post: "most other planets" (are not able
to support human life)

One would think that this is obvious just on the surface of it, no?
I'm not talking about a movie, I'm talking about actually getting to a
planet and then trying to live there.

One can search using Google (again) on "how many planets could support
human life?" and the answers are everything from 'none' to just a
handful. I'll let you do your own research.

All I was claiming…and accurately so, was that today, human beings
could not survive the long journey to a planet that could support
human life. And, that there are so few…if any such planets that to
dream about space travel and similar adventuring is pure fantasy. By
all means, if it is what turns you on…go for it. Just be advised that
such ruminations are not reality today.

Oh, and I haven't even addressed what we both already knew…the funding
issue let alone that those who have been sent up for short periods of
time have been some of the most carefully selected humans on the
planet. Don't try sending our 'average' human being even on a long
orbit around the earth let alone the light years necessary to travel
to a planet that *possibly* could support human life.

On Apr 8, 9:01 pm, Chuck <aardvarkstudio.chu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 1:34 pm, ornamentalmind <ornsmindseyes...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It is also known based on today's science that 'we'
> > can't make it in outer space nor on most other planets.
>
> Can you provide some supporting information for this statement?
>
> AFAIK the only thing stopping us from establishing bases on everything
> except the gas giants is money. The technology is there it just the
> funds that aren't.