You need loads of energy to make a silicon biochemistry work. Lots more energy. Otherwise, it doesn't break it's bonds easily enough for a biochemistry to work. That's what makes Carbon so good. It breaks and forms it's bonds with a reasonable amount of energy.
My point exactly, it allows for rapid evolution and adaptation at the molecular level.
That doesn't have anything to with it. That stuff is a function of reproductive rate and the error rate of genetic transcription.
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;22378120]What if, by some amazing chance, we are actually observing the genesis of life on Titan?[/QUOTE]
Then in Hundreds of millions of years from now, they will write books about us and worship them for thousands of years
Let's hope they don't try to bring any back to earth, as they'd likely die and plus we would have no immunity to whatever horrible SPACE DISEASES would appear.
[QUOTE=robowurmz;22411297]Let's hope they don't try to bring any back to earth, as they'd likely die and plus we would have no immunity to whatever horrible SPACE DISEASES would appear.[/QUOTE]
It's all fun and games until NASA gives everyone the Space AIDS. :C
[QUOTE=robowurmz;22411297]Let's hope they don't try to bring any back to earth, as they'd likely die and plus we would have no immunity to whatever horrible SPACE DISEASES would appear.[/QUOTE]
We would be fine as long as they were contained.
And they will be contained.
So we will be fine :v:
Manned missions to Titan are unlikely for a long time. The distance between Mars' and Jupiter's orbits is a lot bigger than Earth->Mars, and we're struggling to send people to Mars.
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Some quick math says jupiter is about 5 times further way than Mars (in a straight line, which is unlikely to path), titan would be even further.
US Government will probably nuke it.
[QUOTE=Shrapnel :3;22422415]Manned missions to Titan are unlikely for a long time. The distance between Mars' and Jupiter's orbits is a lot bigger than Earth->Mars, and [b]we're struggling to send people to Mars[/b].
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Some quick math says jupiter is about 5 times further way than Mars (in a straight line, which is unlikely to path), titan would be even further.[/QUOTE]
We're even struggling to send people back to the Moon. Apparently, NASA forgot how to do so.
I don't think we're going to be on Mars any time soon.
[QUOTE=hl2poo;22423017]We're even struggling to send people back to the Moon. Apparently, NASA forgot how to do so.
I don't think we're going to be on Mars any time soon.[/QUOTE]
By the time we are on titan meybe we could find colonies and volvox like creatures ?
Hyping.
i find it sad that manned space exploration is so lackluster :(
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;22424111]i find it sad that manned space exploration is so lackluster :([/QUOTE]
We gotta fix up our fucked up world first. People killing each other for stupid reasons and shit. There's too much to focus on right now so space is usually out of the subject. I don't think our planet will be fixed any time soon.
[QUOTE=hl2poo;22424409]We gotta fix up our fucked up world first. People killing each other for stupid reasons and shit. There's too much to focus on right now so space is usually out of the subject. I don't think our planet will be fixed any time soon.[/QUOTE]
We can't "fix" our world unless there is an outer enemy or project to which we can strive our very best. Unless an alien race attacks us, there won't be any quick development in space travel.
Remember WW2 and the cold war? Both led the two sides to do what they could technologically muster, but when one fails and one only has to think of one self, that is when we will for all time be limited to this very little planet.
Yeah I'm crossing my fingers that the 'omg-nanotech-revolution' and all other future tech will solve problems, and, you know, make everything like in my vision of the future thread.
nanotech seems like it could fix a lot of diseases
[QUOTE]Remember WW2 and the cold war? Both led the two sides to do what they could technologically muster, but when one fails and one only has to think of one self, that is when we will for all time be limited to this very little planet.[/QUOTE]
What we [I]really[/I] need is another Space Race. As soon as a foreign competitor sets up camp, preferably with some kind of score to settle, the US will panic and both sides will compete to make sure they're the first to send a geranium to Pluto, or whatever they end up doing.
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Any ideas?
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