I see the Japanese-American futurist on TV, he's very interesting (his name is on the tip of my tongue and I can kind've say it in my head, but can't spell it (Akio ____?)

In any event, he's often brought onto these futuristic shows and shows involving the universe and I thin khe explains things very well.

Another program highlighted the difficulty of even going to Mars. First, the astronauts are going to be stuck in zero gravity, then they are going to be exposed to potentially lethal radiation, then they're going to be gone for so long they will go stir-crazy, and the spacecraft will be travelling so fast that even if it hits a micro-meteorite, that could cause problems.

To get to solar systems, they're going to be needing technology that obviously isn't invented yet. They simply can't produce enough energy to go fast enough, they don't have 'inertial dampeners' like they have on star trek. And even if let's say they can go 1/2 speed of light or better, they're still going to need to see in front of them a full 186,000 + miles to make sure nothing is in the way, and if there is, they will need to avoid it......Since 1900 human technology has made definite advances, but nothing has surpassed the jet/rocket technology that was developed in the 1940s

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