100-Year Starship some way off

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: 100-Year Starship some way off

# 11919 byhappygallimore@... on March 3, 2011, 1:37 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

From: sailor.barsoom
"You know, a Saturn V launch probably used more energy than the entire human
population used in the year 1492. Suppose you had explained to Christopher
Columbus just how much energy such a launch requires, and then tried to tell him
that a single nation would do this a dozen times or so in the course of ten
years."

An interesting example. It can be difficult viewing the future when using a
comtemporary perspective.