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Scenarios for the Future of humanity

I believe this is an extraordinary website. It seems to do a great job exhibiting what our future may hold. Seems very useful as an outline for research or opinions.

There was another place for life to flourish and the Voyager found it "The identical Voyager spacecraft are three-axis stabilized systems that use celestial or gyro referenced attitude control to maintain pointing of the high-gain antennas toward Earth."

LISA will create an upheaval in scientific knowledge "The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a proposed space mission concept designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves[3] - tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time - from astronomical sources. The LISA Project has now evolved into eLISA (Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). The project is currently a collaboration of the self-funded and independent eLISA consortium. [4] The LISA project was previously a joint effort between the United States space agency NASA and the European Space Agency ESA. However, on April 8, 2011, NASA announced that it would likely be unable to continue its LISA partnership with the European Space Agency,[5] due to funding limitations. [6] ESA has therefore revised the mission's concept to fit into a European-only cost envelope. Currently the project is undergoing the selection process for one of the next large ESA mission. [7]"

"The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a proposed space mission concept designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves" LISA is also called a Big Bang Observer. Those who believe in the Big Bang are hoping that LISA will be able to prove their theory.

This shows Dr. Kaku's spectacular revelations.

This site is useful because it tells us about the future of mini computers hidden in our lives. This site is realiable because it is Michio Kaku's official website.

"Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars." Kepler was launched in 2009 and still orbits.

"The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a proposed project by NASA to construct a system of telescopes for detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets." The TPF is the most likely option we have to further the goals of Kepler.

"An exoplanet, or extrasolar planet, is a planet outside the Solar System" More than a thousand extrasolar planets have been discovered. There are more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way.

In this article you will find key information to begin the great researching stage of this project. While reading this website you learn that one of the main goals of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA are to create an Interstellar Spaceship that would be able to travel to stars that are light years away. This project is what they will be focusing a majority of their research on and giving grants to separate organizations to help them carry out this goal. They are hoping to develop this spaceship in the next 100 years and are hoping to use futuristic technologies such as thermonuclear engines, or sending vehicles across the galaxy by bouncing laser beams off their sails to help create these spaceships. They are also offering to accept new ideas such as anti-gravity engines, and plasma shields. This website holds very useful information.

This article is useful because it explores the profound advantages of modern space technology. Several factors limit the depth of space exploration for humans. Astronauts would be able to travel further if they had better space suits. A single fault in any type of space suit is fatal, as the vast climate of space is so much different from the atmosphere of Earth and therefore completely nonsupporting of a human without full insulation and protection. High-tech space suits could not only provide better comfort to astronauts, but they could also provide more convenience and productivity, resulting in higher overall performance. Not only could improved, futuristic spacesuits enable astronauts to support themselves for an extended period of time, enabling them to travel further distances, newer technology might even be able to bring humans to places that have been far too hostile to travel before-- like Mars.

This website shows you two different ideas of a timeline from 2015 all the way to 2100. It gave us a basic understanding of what might be to come before 2100, so we can accurately make predictions on what the future may hold. The page itself may not seem to look very reliable, but the website the information is from is a newsletter completely based on predictions of the future. By knowing what may come before the twenty-second century, we are able to see into the future clearly. This project is to understand the future of our civilization "Will the year 2100 bring disaster or salvation?"

"The skeptics among the Old Space people will say to the upstarts: Where's your rocket? How many times have you launched? Can you deliver reliably? Repeatedly? Safely? We put a man on the moon - what have you done?" I find this source to be incredibly useful for it describes how current companies are already at work creating innovations in space travel. It shows how "Old Space" and "New Space" are competing with each other and how NASA is chipping in. I will use this website to learn what we already have and how far we still need to go. I believe this is a reliable source because it was published by The Washington Post, a typically trustworthy website.

In this website you will find information about how space is planning to be commercialized. You can currently buy a ticket to go up into space for $250,000.The plan for the future is that people want to create companies that would ship people up into space for a reasonable price, so that people could go on vacations into space. Also, the plan is to make space travel commercial, much like air-line companies, instead of having space travel be a strictly governmental idea. One way to help our governments travel further into space and explore, is the new idea to use the moon as a base to help rockets fuel-up. Basically, they want the moon to be a gas station for rockets and use some of the dirt from the moon to help create the fuel. This website is very helpful in giving various information about the commercialization of space.

In this article you can find various information about the future of propulsion devices that are planned to be used for the future rockets. This article strictly keys in on the idea of Nuclear Fusion Generators to provide energy for the rocket. Although, in this article they also state that this may not happen anytime soon because of the fact that so far, humanity has not been able to create a generator that creates more energy than it consumes. Other ideas include extremely large solar panel sails that have lasers bouncing off of them. This article includes very useful information about futuristic propulsion devices.

"The Next Giant Leap For Mankind." This is the website for the 'Mars One' mission. The entire site describes what Mars One is, which makes a very good example of the commercialization of space. Mars One's goal is to not only create a permanent settlement on Mars, but create some kind of reality show on the red planet. Thousands of people have already signed up for this one way trip to another planet, even knowing that they will never come back. This site is reliable because it is run by the Mars One company.

"The superior energy density of antimatter annihilation has often been pointed to as the ultimate source of energy for propulsion. Unfortunately, the limited capacity and very low efficiency of present-day antiproton production methods suggest that antimatter may be too costly to consider for near-term propulsion applications." Antimatter is not the same thing as dark matter or the lack of matter altogether. A single teaspoon of antimatter can destroy the metropolitan area of New York City. Antimatter is extremely difficult to harness, and prohibitively expensive as of now. However, in the future, antimatter may be able to be used to power rockets into the depths of outer space. This concept was discussed in Physics of the Future.

"By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it," [President Barack Obama] said in April 2010 during an address at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida." When it comes to looking for new potential places to land and establish civilization, moons are often overlooked. While the colonization of Mars is predicted to begin within the next century, humans may be sent to Deimos much sooner. Deimos is one of the two moons of Mars, and it is predicted to be able to sustain life. I think that even though overpopulation is not the greatest problem that humanity faces right now, finding a place to live outside of our home planet may be a worthwhile endeavor.

"When discussing the possibility of interstellar travel, there is something called "the giggle factor." Some scientists tend to scoff at the idea of interstellar travel because of the enormous distances that separate the stars." This site goes into great detail about the amount of energy and the level of technology required for interstellar space travel. Michio Kaku describes that many scientists believe that interstellar space travel would be impractical and impossible, considering the massive distance between stars. For instance, traveling at light speed would take you roughly 100,000 years to reach the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. This is a reliable source, considering it was written by Michio Kaku himself.

This website specifically describes the currently known ideas about how we could produce an Interstellar Spaceship. This website is reliable because of the fact that all of the information given in this website was taken from a conference held by DARPA or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This website gives the different ideas currently being thought of and furthermore, gives a brief explanation of each one. This website is wonderful to give someone the knowledge of what current ideas to produce a working Interstellar Spaceship are out there.

This website offers various information on TPF, or the Terrestrial Planet Finder. This website is especially useful, for it tells you not only how the machine works but why it still is not currently in space. You will learn why this machine is so important and how it could truly help humanity in finding other life in space. This website is reliable, for it is an edited newspaper taken from various reliable sources. You can understand how the machine works and how it plans on finding other life by reading this website.

On this website you will find out what New Space really is. This website tells you that New Space is basically the term for the commercialization of space. This website is reliable because of all the information in this website is taken from the Office of Space Commercialization and this website is a government website. You can understand what exactly New Space is and what entrepreneurs hope New Space becomes and evolves into. You will also find how the government is involved in New Space and how humanity as we know it is looking to evolve our space programs for tourism to help boost our economy. This website is an amazing place to get the understanding of what New Space really is.

"Is it time to push the "up" button on the space elevator?" This article is from www.space.com. This website is reliable and is used by many people who want to stay up to date on what is going on in the world of space. I think that we could very well use this resource to make predictions with. This website does very well in creating an idea of how space travel will fit into everyday life in 2100.This website does show how space will be the new Florida. I say that because everyone vacations in Florida. I really like this website and how it can make us do very well in prediction making.