tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post6234355510571394885..comments2023-07-14T07:42:45.273-05:00Comments on Beam Me Up - Science & Science Fiction news: Rocket Scientists Say We'll Never Reach the StarsBeam Me Uphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16507215843874160767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-75841891062712578512008-08-21T12:49:00.000-05:002008-08-21T12:49:00.000-05:00Shaun, I was just going there! My take on it was ...Shaun, I was just going there! My take on it was during the advent of "high speed" trains that could go 45mph. The first engineers were equivalent to our test pilots because there was fear that if you go faster than your heart can pump blood you would die from blood never reaching your brain. But remember these are all facts of the Newtonian universe. There has to be a paradigm shift in the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-62884621558020906912008-08-20T18:25:00.000-05:002008-08-20T18:25:00.000-05:00Thanks Shaun! I think we all agree that prediction...Thanks Shaun! <BR/><BR/>I think we all agree that predictions that have the word "never" in them, are on shaky ground.Dave Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-87049330594109094562008-08-20T16:15:00.000-05:002008-08-20T16:15:00.000-05:00BTW, Wolfkahn, an obvious student of science histo...BTW, Wolfkahn, an obvious student of science history, may be interested to know that it was in fact Joe Pessimist's grandfather Zachariah who wrote the original classic 'we'll never travel faster than 20 miles an hour, the air pressure will kill us' :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-90207829619044538722008-08-20T16:11:00.000-05:002008-08-20T16:11:00.000-05:00"Obviously "Biplane Designers Say We'll Never Reac..."Obviously "Biplane Designers Say We'll Never Reach The Moon" was a masterpiece but I really enjoyed his very early work "Rock Pounders Say We'll Never Manufacture Fire."<BR/><BR/>LOLLOL!!! I'm still splitting my sides!<BR/><BR/>Yep, Wolfkahn summs it up beautifully - time to move on from the stone age and the 'we can't do it now, so we never will' series of books for toddlers, to 'we have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-83117019595838335932008-08-20T13:10:00.000-05:002008-08-20T13:10:00.000-05:00My favorite impossible thing (which I believed at ...My favorite impossible thing (which I believed at the time) is discovering planets around other stars. I've seen plenty of middle Twentieth Century science texts explain why we'll never be able to find planets around other stars.<BR/><BR/>Until we fully understand physics (either unify relativity and quantum theory or find a provable theory to replace them) I'm not going to trust any "impossibleDave Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-73901384706190605062008-08-20T12:27:00.000-05:002008-08-20T12:27:00.000-05:00Wolfkahn! yes! exactly! This whole We Won't thi...Wolfkahn! yes! exactly! This whole We Won't thing really bothered me when I read it. Then I must have had a similar epiphany. Yes, right up there with Rock and Roll is just a fad, Tv is just a toy for rich people, the auto is but a curiosity and of course the internet is just for egg heads. Railroads and trolley systems failed because they failed to foresee a network of interstate highways Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-8617020679828393602008-08-20T12:18:00.000-05:002008-08-20T12:18:00.000-05:00ou know, I mulled this one over and over and leave...ou know, I mulled this one over and over and leave it to the rocket jocks to get this one wrong. Think about it. Their logic is: We use rockets to get into space, Rockets are inefficient and likely never to get to the nearest stars. Conclusion, Man uses rockets, rockets can't get to the stars, therefor Man won't get to the stars. Ok.... Maybe not with a rocket, ooooooooooor. 1)suspended animationBeam Me Uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507215843874160767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31959155.post-47059698119158828922008-08-20T08:38:00.000-05:002008-08-20T08:38:00.000-05:00Isn't this the long awaited entry Joe Pessimist's ...Isn't this the long awaited entry Joe Pessimist's "We'll Never" series of fantasy novels?<BR/><BR/>Obviously "Biplane Designers Say We'll Never Reach The Moon" was a masterpiece but I really enjoyed his very early work "Rock Pounders Say We'll Never Manufacture Fire."<BR/><BR/>Seriously though, virtually every significant technological advancement has been preceded by countless arguments that it Dave Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177noreply@blogger.com