Travel Among the Stars - Still a Dream?

[netwolf]

Hi All,

Its amazing but it seems to me that my childhood dream might stay a dream, when your a kid you think without bounds. But reality sets some firm limits on what is possible and what is yet not possible. Does anyone else here crave to travel amongst the stars? Do you still belive it will happen in your lifetime? What if anything have you done about it?

Personaly to me this is what really got me into the hobby, as this is the nearest i can come to realise my dream. I am a big Sci-Fi fan and my most favourite place in the fiction world would be Ten-Forward on the Enterprise in StarTrek. What amazing vistas could be seen from such a place. Imageine geting up close and personal with all that we glimpse thorough our telescope.

Regards

[asimov]

Yes, I share your dream, your craving. With me too science fiction..novels back then got me into astronomy; the likes of E E Doc Smith/Asimov/heinlein, to name but a few...& like you, this is as close as I can come to my dream of travelling throughout the galaxy.

I don't think mankind will be doing it anytime soon, so the dream will remain a dream for me. I won't mind though, I have a very good imagination & every time I'm out under the stars...I live the dream..

[ballaratdragons]

I too, as a child, expected to be Touristing thru space as a grown up.
I don't mean simple spaceplane rides into orbit, I mean REAL 'Lost In Space' stuff! Deep Space.
It ain't gonna happen in my lifetime, and I doubt if it will happen in my kids lifetimes either, but it is certainly worth chasing for future generations. :thumbsup:

The research and work done now is a legacy left to those who will venture 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'.

I envy them :)

[acropolite]

Travel amongst the stars is possible right now, it's staying alive long enough to enjoy that's the problem.....still we can look and dream.. :sadeyes:

[Rodstar]

At the risk of boring all of the nihilists, I have a dream to travel among the stars in the afterlife. I am rather hopeful that the Creator will show me through His "gallery", taking me on my own GOTO tour. Fingers crossed.

I wouldn't argue with the Tarantula as a starting point.

[Omaroo]

I also got the space bug from reading sci-fi. Robert L. Forward's "Dragon's Egg" did for me.... and it was apparently one of A.C.Clarke's favourite books too.

On Earth we've got it easy - a gravity of 1.0 and only 17,000 mph required to get out of here. The book is about a civilisations' life on a neutron star where the surface gravity is 67,000,000,000 (sixty seven billion) times that of Earth's - and they still manage to make contact with humans. A truly wonderful work that is steeped in real physics.

[netwolf]

Rodstar,

For me the ideal heaven would be to return to this universe to travel through the stars, to continue life as i find its to short to live all dreams.

I am a big fan of Isac Asimov, the foundation series realy opned my eyes to the reality of an expanding human population that takes all its problems we have on Earth and expands it into the scope of a Galactic empire.

Regards

[Ric]

I am waiting to see man land on Mars for starters, the last I heard the timetable is now around 2015 but it keeps on getting pushed back with budget cuts to NASA.

cheers