Before I begin, I'd like to point out a few things, ever since I was a kid I've loved everything space. The concept of finding new planets, intergalactic wars, aliens, new flora and fauna. All of it is so mind boggling, just take a moment and look up. Look at what's out there, its fascinating that there is so much, yet so much of it is ignored. Yeah we have space stations and telescopes, but its not good enough. I watched the movie interstellar and it truly kept me on my seat, that's how good of a movie it was, I wasn't in a movie theater, no, I was in a shuttle. A shuttle heading to vast new worlds for exploration. As I walked out of that theater I took a moment and just looked up. Empty space, stars, the moon it was all there. Its so close yet so far away, and that's what I hate the most. Being born in this time period, its not likely that me, you, or anyone will get the chance to actually go to any other planet than mars. I've read reports about an "impossible engine" that might actually work. Read articles about an experimental FTL drive that could get us out of the milky way in matter of weeks. Most of the rumors are false, and that's what sickens me. Im worked up over nothing now. It all so seems so easy in theory, but when put out its just too hard. Were we not meant to leave this planet? What if the time calls for it. My chemistry professor's father used to work at a portion for NASA, he would take the big telescope and look for objects or anything heading for earth. In 2026 we're supposed to be on the lookout for a potentially huge asteroid that might collide with earth. Big enough to wipe a good chunk of country out, or causing total human extinction. That's what scares me, that we don't take a moment and just ask our selves "what if". WHAT IF! WE TRIED, DEVOTED OUR TIME AND MONEY INTO SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE, AND IT SO HAPPENS TO WORK? NO ONE SEEMS TO GET THAT, THROUGHOUT OUR EVOLUTION, WE WERE, NO, WE STILL ARE PIONEERS, LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO EXPLORE. What makes us stop at earth? Why would we just stop at earth. No matter who I talk about this to, I just get the same "your delusional, that's all sci-fi junk." Im so sick and tired of the same "its never going to happen" or "its impossible" niche everyone's completely accepted. They don't seem to notice that this, "impossible engine" can get people to mars in weeks instead of months or even years! It puts a hole in my heart knowing people would shoot down the idea of interstellar travel, when the bi-plane of technology is right in front of them. Yeah, it might be just a short step forward, but with experiments they're sure to find a way.
I just think its silly that we've stopped being us, the explorers. And if we're truly alone in the universe, then what's stopping us from going out and striving for it. Looking up in the sky and saying, "One day, I'll walk on that planet".
With that, I'd like to know what your thoughts are on space travel, or colonization on another planet relatively close. Because lets be honest, we all can't live on this rock forever.
