It is kind of sad to be living where it's too early to have your own space craft. It is sci-fi at this point anyway to consider life like that, but that would be cool to write software for like car CAN bus. But I also get it's not a toy/matter of life and death. I guess a video game or simulator is the closest thing. Standardized APIs for thrusters or something that would be cool.
Tie into visual star navigation
People can't even afford the cars they finance. Having your own plane is extremely rare. Even if you COULD have your own space craft, they would be more rare than owning a plane.
Funny I don't even consider hacking on my own car like switching the infotainment system (11 yr old car)
The spacecraft mechanics in sci-fi who are born today are auto gearheads. It is funny to think about something so romanticized where the modern day equivalent is comparatively mundane. At least, it is to me, I'm sure a lot of people spending their life on it do not find it mundane at all.
I pay Firestone to do my oil change lol, it's pretty sad, I like driving fast cars but don't work on em
I think the anime Cowboy Bebop has influenced my mind on what it could be like again fantasy but yeah. Mix of older looking hardware seems more tangible like this interface
It will probably never be feasible to have "your own" spacecraft like we have cars. The time and distance scales are just way too huge. Something more resembling the scale of a superyacht might become possible in the far future.
I understand too until there is FTL/warping space is too big
My understanding is there is not a such thing and humans, if we want to go interstellar, are going to have to accept that those humans and probably all their offapring are gone forever.
> there is not a such thing
Yet. Or, as the good science communicators like to say, "as far as we know / as far as our current understanding goes". Looking back in history, almost everything we're taking for granted today was both dreamed by the pas era's "futurists" and deemed impossible by their skeptics. Only time (hah!) will tell, I guess.
I used to argue this way, too. But i forget if it was NdgT or someone else said basically that there's no real reason to leave right now for interstellar travel because advancements in technology will make future travel take less time - the future travelers may pass the present travelers.
So what, we wait until we have wormhole technology?
I say we start now. maybe tech improves, maybe we get wormholes. If so, maybe we can go "cut 'em off at the pass" and move the present travelers to the future ship(s).
My dad bought a Belite ultralight aircraft. It arrived with the propeller too long so he damaged the motor the first time he booted it up. Rather than fixing the struts and wheels, they fucking cut the propeller shorter. The left wing was 3" longer than the right wing. It is an Italian motorcycle engine.
You might try to Google belite because that sounds awesome, right? My dad told Mr he was selling the plane when he got it back from belite, but decided to fly it one last time.
The engine failed at like 1000' after takeoff and piledrove him into some poor bastard's farm a quarter mile from the airport. The fucking plane could not even glide.
Random ass people driving is bad enough. I have dozens of gigs of dashcam videos of all manner of insane, mad, evil, stupid, degenerate driver in my more recent 100,000 miles traveled in the US.
I meant to type but did not, in the google the name section; the company is defunct. I sent an email to another company that had a suspiciously similar logo and they accidentally forwarded me the legal representatives reply to the owner/ceo or whatever. I have a last name 2 people in the world have, so they knew who i was.
It happened so long ago and i got so frustrated with lawyers that i gave up trying to punish them for their BS.
