Wait, what?
You heard me correctly. NASA and DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a branch of the Defense Department) have joined forces to create a plan which will take humans to Mars--and leave them there for good.
Here's an excerpt of the article linked above in case you want to glance through before committing a whole new tab to this topic:
"NASA and DARPA have joined forces to build something called a Hundred-Year Starship, according to the director of NASA’s Ames Research Center. Simon “Pete” Worden said NASA contributed $100,000 to the project and DARPA kicked in $1 million.
“The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds,” Worden said, according to a Singularity University blog that covered the event. “Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired.” (Worden added that he was fired by President George W. Bush.)
Beyond that, there are no details. But the prospect of a DARPA-NASA spaceship collaboration for Star Trek-esque exploration sounds thrilling — even if by definition, a 100-year ship means leaving Earth and never coming back" - Popular Science
Interesting stuff. I recommend you read the article (and click the links there, as well) if this topic tickles your fancy. Hopefully someday soon we'll live the future the past thought we'd be living by now.
Make it so!
Someday..
Enjoy!
-Feel
