Quotes About Exploration

Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.

The Pentagon has been looking into the possibility of developing "smart dust," dust-sized particles that have tiny sensors inside that can be sprayed over a battlefield to give commanders real-time information. In the future it is conceivable that "smart dust" might be sent to the nearby stars.

One day , would it be possible to walk through walls ? To build starships than can travel faster than the speed of life? TO READ OTHER PEOPLE'S MIND ? To become INVISIBLE ? To move object with the power of our minds? To transport our bodies instantly through outer space?? Since I was a child , I've always been fascinated by these questions.

If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.

In my field, physics, I see that most of us are engage in physics not for the money but for the sheer joy of discovery an innovation.

One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world.

Why go to the stars? Because we are the descendants of those primates who chose to look over the next hill. Because we won't survive here indefinitely. Because the stars are there, beckoning with fresh horizons. —JAMES AND GREGORY BENFORD

Speculation is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction. —ELIZABETH PETERS

to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The mind of man is capable of anything Ã¢â'¬Â¦ because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. —JOSEPH CONRAD

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. —JOHN WHEELER

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. —M. C. ESCHER

If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. – ALBERT EINSTEIN

We are now entering a new golden age of neuroscience.

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. —CARL SAGAN

Given that humanity must one day flee the solar system to the nearby stars to survive, or perish, the question is: how will we get there? The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is over 4 light-years away. Conventional chemical propulsion rockets, the workhorses of the current space program, barely reach 40,000 miles per hour. At that speed it would take 70,000 years just to visit the nearest star.

The deep space transport uses a new type of propulsion system to send astronauts through space, called solar electric propulsion. The huge solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity. This is used to strip away the electrons from a gas (like xenon), creating ions. An electric field then shoots these charged ions out one end of the engine, creating thrust. Unlike chemical engines, which can only fire for a few minutes, ion engines can slowly accelerate for months or even years.

What we usually consider are impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them

Naves espaciales nanorrobóticas inteligentes, no tripuladas, podrían alcanzar sistemas estelares vecinos con una pequeña fracción del coste de construir y lanzar una enorme nave espacial que lleve una tripulación humana.

Olaf Stapledon's classic work of science fiction, Star Maker:

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right. —LARRY NIVEN

el vacío tiene energía, como sospechaba Tesla. Pero la cantidad de energía es probablemente demasiado pequeña para ser utilizada como una fuente de energía útil.

Forbidden Planet

It is estimated that, if the ice caps of Mars were completely melted, there would be enough liquid water to fill a planetary ocean fifteen to thirty feet deep.