Recent content by JasonFrels

If we send an interstellar probe now, we might end up passing it by with a better probe that is created a century or two from now. Kind of hard to determine when to launch. It seems like now, the telescope technology his being improved at a fast rate and maybe it would be better to wait a...

I don't think that it is fair to use terms like basic to describe this undertaking. It doesn't sound like a simple operation to go find some fuel tank floating in a low, decaying orbit and then capture it, boost it into a good orbit and try to convert if for human habitation. That's a lot of...

I guess it depends on how much time we are willing to take. Unless we become a theoretical level 2 civilization, I think that we can only do this with an incredibly long project. It would seem that we first need to locate a bunch of small comets and asteroids and redirect them so that they...

Difficult to have a discussion when you can just state that anything that I say in response to your statements is outside of the scope of the discussion. I am going to try that with my girl friend.

You asked this several times: "how is that an advantage for preparing for Mars missions? " My answer is that, like Mars, the moon is a hostile environment (to us) that requires leaving Earth, traveling though space, and safely landing on an alien world with the capability to return to Earth...

Mars and the moon are quite different, but they are both quite inhospitable to human life. If the intent is to develop skills and technology to travel to and operate on an alien world, the moon may make a good test bed. The moon is always a few seconds away for radio communication. Mars may be...