Re: Top 10 Tech We Miss - #1 - Manned Space Exploration
Greetings Mark and List
#1 is an interesting and probably the most valid point. Loosing all of that
knowledge and expertise to age and retirement and then having to start over from
scratch is non-sensical.
If they do go to Mars, will there be another 30 years gap to the next manned
interplanetary mission?
Be Well
Damian
Mark Reiff wrote:
> FYI,
>
> "Top 10 Tech We Miss"
> CNet
> http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6259955-1.html?tag=txt
>
> : Technology evolves. Good technologies and products usually survive; poor ones
> : usually go extinct. But not all of the technologies and tech products that have
> : swirled down the drain of the tech gene pool deserved their fate. Here are some
> : big, and some small, ideas that we thought we'd have with us forever, but that
> : unfortunately have gone the way of the dodo.
>
> : #1 Manned Space Exploration
>
> : It's been 33 years since humans have set foot on the moon or journeyed beyond
> : the close orbit of the Earth. In other words, we've stopped exploring. Sure,
> : robotic spaceships and Mars rovers are adding to our knowledge of the universe,
> : but the last people to explore the final frontier are past retirement age--and
> : so are the engineers who put them there. In other words, next time we go into
> : space, we're going to have to retrain people from scratch. There may be no
> : firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be in space or to build a space
> : vehicle. This is progress?
>
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