The Final Frontier
Dec. 20th, 2011 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveWatching this programme tonight on Channel 5 about ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) and how they transported the satellite dishes up to the site, cousin posited the notion that we would never visit the stars and that this scientific endeavour of looking into the farthest reaches of space was futile.
I disagree. We are curious creatures and we will always endeavour to unravel the unknown. We have made great strides in understanding the cosmology of the universe, and whilst we may not see man go the stars in our lifetime, I am optimistic that one day we will reach the stars.
However, because space is a hostile environment, and that space is so immense, it will not be homo sapien that will travel to the stars but our future offspring, most likely intelligent machines, or perhaps genetically engineered humans, that will take on this vast task.
Our ingenuity alone will someday see us there, or we doomed as a species.
I disagree. We are curious creatures and we will always endeavour to unravel the unknown. We have made great strides in understanding the cosmology of the universe, and whilst we may not see man go the stars in our lifetime, I am optimistic that one day we will reach the stars.
However, because space is a hostile environment, and that space is so immense, it will not be homo sapien that will travel to the stars but our future offspring, most likely intelligent machines, or perhaps genetically engineered humans, that will take on this vast task.
Our ingenuity alone will someday see us there, or we doomed as a species.
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