Do you expect to travel in space etc. within your lifetime?

Well do you?

No.

My ashes might.

I guess if Ralph gives me the old "bang, zoom, right to the moon" routine!

yes

We spend way to much time tryin to gain controll over this tiny little spec of a nothing planet, to worry about the reality of the unknown. So-------no way.......unfortunatly.

If humanity doesn't expand beyond the confines of this little planet... it will destroy itself.

At the very least, I hope to go suborbital.

Then come back here and post pics in a "Space, Bitches!" thread...

Hell Virgin Galatic has already sold out the first two flights of it's suborbital space ship based off the space ship two design.

I am hoping to hit space inside a Galactic Virgin.

I fully expect that to happen...hope I'm long gone when it does.

Which, make it to space... or eat itself?

The latter.

I'd rather hope that humanity will move past itself for one brief second and expand, staveing off the loomeing end.

When I was a youngster in the mid to late 70's, I saw Alan Shepherd smacking golf balls on the moon. I looked forward to living and working in space when I was an adult.

The reality of it has been a shattering blow to childhood dreams, to say the least. Now I can only hope that we'll make it back to the moon in my lifetime. I'm frankly not optimistic.

So do I...I'm not sanguine about the prospects of it happening.

indeed... makes one think that it would have been better if an all out nuclear exchange had happened in 62, off the cuba deal.

I figure in my lifetime, people who can pay around the equivalent of 100,000 dollars in todays money will be able to charter a ride into orbit.

That will be hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps millions able to afford it.

But I honestly don't think I'll ever have the liguid assets to afford it.

The most I might be able to hope for would be a jaunt on a hypersonic airliner.

Thats not too bad an adventure. Flying faster than an SR-71 at more than 100,000 feet.

Not likely.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Soviet Union didn't have a very large nuclear arsenal or sufficient range missiles to hurt the United States too badly.

Read "The Two Day War" in the book "The What Ifs of American History" for a good example of the Cuban Missile Crisis going nuclear.

The zombie hordes will stunt technological growth to the point that I'll never break atmo.

exactly... Russia, europe, the middle east and asia all would be far worse off than the US if the exchange happened then...

You know, you are absolutely right. That would have been great. Hind sight and fore-sight. Who knew. We only had fear itself to fear back then.

Well, that and the nuclear hollocoust that would have followed.

There should have been an option that said, "At this point I don't care anymore." When I was little I was ecstatic at the idea of space travel, but now it just doesn't have the same allure. After learning about it in school, seeing countless movies set in it, and reading about it in books- I've realised that space can't offer anything as fantastic as the fiction makes it out to be. Even if I were to go into space, I wouldn't meet martians in some accidental circumstance after which some wacky hijinks would ensue. It just wouldn't happen. I'm also not going to go into battle with 3 or 4 other guys and stave off entire hordes of some alien race with a blaster and only 3 power cells.

Sadly, the reality of space has killed its wonderment. It is just an inky black, blank space with balls of flaming gas orbited by globes. If there is life on those other planets it wouldn't even matter, because even they won't live up to the magic of the fiction.

Probably not again, but surely I'll make return trips in future lifetimes.

No, the dreams we had of space travel and colonization in the 60's are gone forever. Now all that money and drive is used to keep politicians in office.

Do I expect to travel in space in my lifetime. No. Do i think it would be possable to travel in space in my lifetime, who knows.

AH, but the tech is already there... it just isn't priced right.

Well ahmina be the optimist, then.

Yeah, I still expect to be able to travel in space before I die. Probably a sub-orbital hop in an aerospace plane, but that's still space.

I have no confidence whatsoever that anyone will get off their self-involved asses long enough to make space flight anything but a rare and expensive event that common people will never partake in.

I suppose its rather obvious that people will be able to travel in space in my lifetime considering that people already do... I guess what i ment was will it be possable for the average joe? I personaly have no real desire to travel in space.