I challenge convention and assert that space and space travel are both self-sustainable. Given the distances between bodies, it is likely there is more useful mass in between than could ever be mined on either combined. There is likely to be more fusionable mass between solar systems than the combined mass of both. I've heard bits here about travel in straight lines and curves, gravity, relativiteousness blah blah. Nature takes care of itself. We won't need to travel in any patern, because there are currents and phenomena, such as the movement of both origin and destination. Those changes alone dictate that neither point will be there when you stop. Mars, Neptune, are not insurmountable because there are windows of opportunity. Those windows will disappear, in terms of any lifetime, when the the distances beyond the solar system play in the mix. We won't be establishing colonies on planets, we'll be using a star's mass output and it's gravity to suck in useful mass, like a whale, as we cruise among the stars. The reason this is all true is because I'm a fiction writer, and I say so. Get out of the box, people. You,re smooshing each other in there.
I agree to an extent. it all depends on if there are multiple people on a ship at once, interesting conversations can spring from boredom.
I note that there's a difference between "Science Fiction" and "Space Fantasy with Technobabble." The former extends and extrapolates science, the latter just hand-waves it away. Good fiction can be found in both.
Cool! Now, all we need is lightsabers. Handheld fusion, anyone? And pizza! There's gotta be space-pizza!
One year my mom spray painted a tumbleweed sparkly white and made a second little Christmas tree for the dining room. It was really pretty.
This is barely on topic with what you were saying, but it reminded me. I wrote a story a few months ago, just an 850 word vignette really. Basically it was the black box recording from a time capsule. The test pilot was using his last minutes of oxygen to tell everyone off, especially the scientists who neglected to anticipate that sending him forward a day in time would land him in the dead of space, earth having continued on its path for 24 hours.
Problem is, the space pizza is sentient, and reacts disproportionately to being eaten. The eater's entire race is targeted for extinction, and the space pizza race has poerful weapons technology.
I just assumed there was other planets by other stars... I saw a documentary on YouTube recently that lead me to believe this wasn't assumed, and apparently we were surprised when telescopes found other planets orbiting other stars.
Watch "The Earthling". It was one of William Holden's last movies and has a 7yr old Ricky Schroeder in it. The kid's parents drive their rv over a cliff in the Australian Outback while the kid was gathering wood and the poor kid is left alone to fend for himself. William Holden is out there to die so he teaches the kid how to survive byhimself and tries to point the kid in the right direction to civilization since he won't be alive long enough to hike with him. Pretty good movie.
Space, God, whatever... How did anything get here from nothing is what I want to know. Don't tell me about the big bang because something had to be here for there to be a big bang.
I honestly don't find the highway all that boring. It provides a meditative moment for reflection on events between. Space would presumably do moreso. What's action without context?
I had to write a scene where an AI talks about how it can believe in God. How it proved The Creator exists.
The question is this: Why is there something rather than nothing? My pussy cat once snatched a robin out of the air, then dropped her prize at my feet. I think Daisy knows the big secret of the Universe. But she's not telling.
