Hooks
This blog post contains two introductory hooks of dubious quality for a research article I'll write in the near future.
If you're reading this article, you probably think that space is pretty cool. The Earth, in relation to space's entirety, is less than a speck of dust among an unreal amount of other dust, ranging from stars to other planets to nebulae to even black holes. Heck, space is so bloody big that we actually don't know how big it is, since it's getting larger faster than light itself can move. It's a shame that there's so much cool stuff floating around, out of reach because of the literally astronomical distances between everything. The thing is, humanity is going to have to send themselves off of Earth at some point. So, with all this space to cross, how are we going to do it? We've never sent humans farther than the moon, and only unmanned probes have left the solar system. Our current rocket engines just won't cut it for these distances. Fortunately for us, technology has created a whole slew of alternative thruster types that could potentially send humanity though the stars. With a little refinement, the right engine type could eventually send frozen humans to the Alpha Centauri system. Each propulsion type has its own pros and cons. which one would be the best for this purpose?
Humanity is approaching a point of no return. There are so many of us running around, and our global population is rising so quickly, that scientists have estimated that the Earth will no loner be able to sustain our entire population in only a few years. Unless a form of global population control is implemented, it seems likely that humanity will have to expand past the Earth and onto other planets to thrive. To do this,we'll need spacecraft to carry people across the vast, cold reaches of space. The issue is, the rocket engines we currently use aren't completely up to this task. Fortunately, many other methods of propulsion have been suggested and tested over the years. With some tuning, one of these new methods may be what carries out species out of the solar system, and perhaps eventually to other galaxies. Here, we'll be comparing the strengths and weaknesses of some proposed methods, and see if any of them has what it takes to take humans out past the stars.
If you're reading this article, you probably think that space is pretty cool. The Earth, in relation to space's entirety, is less than a speck of dust among an unreal amount of other dust, ranging from stars to other planets to nebulae to even black holes. Heck, space is so bloody big that we actually don't know how big it is, since it's getting larger faster than light itself can move. It's a shame that there's so much cool stuff floating around, out of reach because of the literally astronomical distances between everything. The thing is, humanity is going to have to send themselves off of Earth at some point. So, with all this space to cross, how are we going to do it? We've never sent humans farther than the moon, and only unmanned probes have left the solar system. Our current rocket engines just won't cut it for these distances. Fortunately for us, technology has created a whole slew of alternative thruster types that could potentially send humanity though the stars. With a little refinement, the right engine type could eventually send frozen humans to the Alpha Centauri system. Each propulsion type has its own pros and cons. which one would be the best for this purpose?
Humanity is approaching a point of no return. There are so many of us running around, and our global population is rising so quickly, that scientists have estimated that the Earth will no loner be able to sustain our entire population in only a few years. Unless a form of global population control is implemented, it seems likely that humanity will have to expand past the Earth and onto other planets to thrive. To do this,we'll need spacecraft to carry people across the vast, cold reaches of space. The issue is, the rocket engines we currently use aren't completely up to this task. Fortunately, many other methods of propulsion have been suggested and tested over the years. With some tuning, one of these new methods may be what carries out species out of the solar system, and perhaps eventually to other galaxies. Here, we'll be comparing the strengths and weaknesses of some proposed methods, and see if any of them has what it takes to take humans out past the stars.
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