That was also a plot point in Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War", that due to time dilation, that many times when the warships would show up to fight, their tech was so outclassed as to make most missions suicide... Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh@holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin
On Sep 19, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Reminds me of an old sci-fi story, I think it was by A. E. Van Vogt, in which the first human interstellar voyage to Alpha Centauri arrives to find that human progress caught-up and passed them during their long hibernation enroute. They find an established human civilization that treats them as relics from the past.
I wonder if we will catch-up to the Voyager probes one day, and return them to the Smithsonian, or it's far-future equivalent?
Certainly we'll be bringing back lots of lunar and Mars hardware from historic missions, although I'd like to see the Apollo 11 site cordoned-off and preserved. The only way those bootprints can be erased is by tourist tracks over them, or a meteorite impact. Otherwise they will endure for millions of years, only slowly succumbing to micro-meteorite abrasion.
The Apollo 11 landing stirred the collective souls of humanity like no other accomplishment I can think of. I feel a bit sorry for those too young to remember it, I have never since felt so proud to be a human being. It was a BIG DEAL, still is.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
I can barely wait.
On Friday, September 19, 2014 12:40 AM, Wiggins Patrick < paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
Kind of a slow night in the observatory and with my main project finished for the night and bad weather approaching I got a quick short of Voyager 1's next "destination" before shutting down.
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