https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn Made with big dreams en-us 2019-04-24 15:53:10 UTC 2025-10-23 18:58:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f30c.png samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353797680 The NSS has been pushing space colonization since 1975]]> 2019-04-24 15:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353797680 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353798268 Both SpaceX and Blue Origin, using only non-government funds, have returned launch vehicles to Earth for reuse, signaling an imminent reduction in space transportation costs]]> 2019-04-24 15:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353798268 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353800909 Space Settlement is the goal of both of these companies. The Space Exploration Development and Settlement Act was introduced in Congress on March 16, 2016. ]]> 2019-04-24 16:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353800909 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353801170 SEDS Act would make Space Settlement an official goal of NASA ]]> 2019-04-24 16:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353801170 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353801431 Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, announced his company’s plans to send the first human mission to Mars as early as 2024]]> 2019-04-24 16:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353801431 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353801743 SpaceX’s plans to settle Mars during the International Astronautical Congress in late September 2016. This announcement is likely to cause the goal of Space Settlement to make a major jump toward the mainstream.]]> 2019-04-24 16:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/353801743 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355490956 Despite the 40-plus years of the Space Movement using the term Space Settlement, society may well push us to using the term Space Colonization in the future.]]> 2019-04-30 15:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355490956 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355491373 NSS has been using the term Space Settlement rather than Space Colonization since our beginning in 1975.]]> 2019-04-30 15:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355491373 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355491779 Much of the world was made up of former colonies that resented their former status]]> 2019-04-30 15:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355491779 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355492079 Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, announced his company’s plans to send the first human mission to Mars as early as 2024]]> 2019-04-30 15:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355492079 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355499557 Voyager 1, have traveled more than 138 AU from our planet since launching, with the goal of discovering what interstellar space may have in store.]]> 2019-04-30 15:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355499557 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355500188 In 2017, this telescope discovered that a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, name 2007 OR10, has a moon that was previously unknown]]> 2019-04-30 15:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355500188 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355500221 Should something happen that changes the environment of the planet, it would have the potential of wiping out the entire human species It could save us ]]> 2019-04-30 15:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355500221 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355665966 By 2017, there were 105 countries who had signed onto the treaty and another 24 who have signed, but not yet ratified it. This treaty forbids placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, installing them on the moon, or any other location in space. The treaty also disallows any nation from claiming a celestial resource as a national appropriation.]]> 2019-05-01 00:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355665966 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355666409 We could find other life]]> 2019-05-01 00:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355666409 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355666625 It is extremely expensive]]> 2019-05-01 00:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355666625 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355666786 There are high fuel costs required to launch anything into orbit. Using the US Space Shuttle program as an example, the total mass of all propellants was over 3.8 million pounds]]> 2019-05-01 00:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355666786 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355691842 here are more than 500,000 items of debris that are currently being tracked as they orbit our planet. This space junk is litter that is flying at a speed of over 17,500 miles per hour, which means an impact could do great damage. ]]> 2019-05-01 03:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355691842 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355691933 The amount of materials in a single asteroid could be more than $100 billion.]]> 2019-05-01 03:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355691933 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355693459 Asteroids or planets may have new materials that we don’t have on Earth. ]]> 2019-05-01 04:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355693459 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355840451 Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that it would stimulate the economy and inspire the next generation of scientists]]> 2019-05-01 15:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355840451 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355841087 Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX, argues that “there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multiplanetary…to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen.”]]> 2019-05-01 15:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355841087 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355842466 The former administrator of NASA, Michael Griffin, frames it as a matter of the “survival of the species.” And the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has said that if humanity fails to colonize space within 100 years, we could face extinction.]]> 2019-05-01 15:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355842466 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355842846 humanity will eventually need to escape Earth to survive, since the sun will make the planet uninhabitable in about 1 billion years]]> 2019-05-01 15:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355842846 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355843141 Escaping Earth is about much more than dodging the bullet of extinction]]> 2019-05-01 15:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355843141 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355843582 My conclusion is that in a colonized universe the probability of the annihilation of the human race could actually rise rather than fall.]]> 2019-05-01 15:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355843582 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355843956 Consider what is likely to happen as humanity hops from Earth to Mars, and from Mars to relatively nearby, potentially habitable exoplanets like Consider what is likely to happen as humanity hops from Earth to Mars, and from Mars to relatively nearby, potentially habitable exoplanets like Epsilon Eridani b, Gliese 674 b, and Gliese 581 d]]> 2019-05-01 15:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355843956 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355844508 using technology to modify and enhance our bodies and brains—is much more likely to influence the evolutionary trajectories of future populations ]]> 2019-05-01 15:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355844508 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355844734 natural selection and cyborgization as humanity spreads throughout the cosmos will result in species diversification]]> 2019-05-01 15:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355844734 samuel_pitts https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355845449 If we cant even solve our humanity problems on earth how could we move somewhere else ]]> 2019-05-01 15:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/samuel_pitts/elehvelf8bwn/wish/355845449