We Stopped Going To The Moon For A Very Good Reason | Lightning Round

Finally someone who understands that unless we find something that's going to pay for those rockets and exploration, we're not going back. I can imagine another Apollo like mission, but permanent presence, exploration, Mars landings etc it's just to expensive and there's very little we gain from it.

Funny how wars never seem to go out of style but supporting beneficial human endeavors are always highly scrutinized.

maybe the 'graviton' is just a quasi-particle – like a 'Phonon'?
useful for calculations, but only an illusion?

You know, diamonds aren't actually forever? They revert to graphite over time. If you truly want an eternal mineral, zircon is the way!

Your graphic for the photon says proton…

But exactly – why would they continue going to the moon is still my question today. Like yeah science etc. But ultimately I don't see the point.

I'd suggest the excellent speculative fiction story 17776 (and it's sequel 20020) for a look into how culture evolves with immortality.

One thing I think will change is that we will look back 150 years from now and marvel about how the majority of groceries in the shops were absolutely crap. I mean we have a shelf called "health food", because the rest of the store is NOT healthy food 😅. It's quite scary actually 😕

A reminder that the F-35 program costed 2 trillion dollars, the Apollo program costed about $30 billion in the 60s it is about $350 billion in todays dollars

If gravity is a force carried by a boson, the graviton, then why and how does it disappear when we're in ballistic motion? No other force does that. Not the electric field. Not magnetism. Not the strong or weak force. Only gravity. The best explanation is Einstein's from 1918: it's not a force. It's curved space. It has no boson, and if that is true, it will never be incorporated in the the Standard model of Quantum Mechanics.

sounds a bit misleading saying we didnt go back to the moon. 12 people have been to the moon in missions up to 1972. We went several times, just not since then for multitude of reasons(most of which stated in the video)

28:52 The problem with living for ever is that it is impractical as what we are. To counteract this humanness (disease and accidents – so long as we have that sorted; then there's reproduction – we will have to either stop, only making another immortal when one accidentally "dies". But, that won't happen. So, there can only be a certain number of "immortals" with physical bodies taking up physical space. This is why immortals don't have physical bodies like ours. They can expand to whatever, but aren't constrained. Humans never think this out. The consequences of meddling with spacetime. Plus, we are already immortal in one sense.

Artemnis is the Greek god of the hunt. Diana is the Roman goddess of the hunt.

Shelter animals are the sweetest, most grateful pets you will ever encounter. They go from depressed forgotten animals to the focus of affection in the house. And they know it. It's a beautiful thing to see.

500 more years of Donna?!? I'm all set with that.

If immortality is achieved, population control will become a major issue.

Gravity is weaker over Hudson’s Bay in Canada…you weigh less there.

Oh yeah, I wanna live forever so I can worry about things like the sun dying and the eventual heat death of the universe. That sounds fun.

Regarding this era… it is perhaps a mistake to assume that people will always stay glued to the internet and all the permutations of social-media. There might be a social rejection of it. When the United States returns to normal, as it must and I believe will, there may be new controls and parameters placed on the internet. Age limitations, copy-write rules etc. As well as other reforms that will return power and economic well-being to the general population. When you say us, don’t include us. The Untied States is in obvious need of reform on a gargantuan scale. Other countries are doing a much better job of it. Including the 51st State. Unrestricted capitalism has to end. Appropriate taxation of corporations and high income individuals has happened before in the United States and can again. Regarding resources, there are lots in the ground, much more to be recycled and alternatives to be used, as well as safe nuclear for electricity generation and soon-to-be much better batteries for EV’s. When EV’s were subsidized in Canada sales were very high. Then the subsidies went away, so did the high sales. They’re too damned expensive and have way too many uneeded techno bells and whistles. So, overall I am optimistic. Fundamental things have to change and be improved though. But I trust the American voter to do the right thing. And the G7 populations and leaders to do the right thing as well.