The point of Space exploration, is to experiense it first hand. To be there.
I believe you are confusing "exploration" with "tourism." Or hiking, depending on where you're going.
Comparing tourism and hiking with exploration? really?
Only insofar as tourism and hiking are NOT exploration, as the latter involves going to a particular place looking for something useful and the former does not.
Thus space EXPLORATION is traveling to a new location for a specific, pre-determined purpose. Space TOURISM is traveling just to be traveling.
If you not going to read the my post, then dont quote it. Because the answear to that question was already there.
As was mine: exploration is the search for resources and information, as opposed to TOURISM, which is what "to experience it first hand, to be there" describes.
I read your post just fine. It's just that "to be there" is not a motivating drive for exploration.
Ever considered Colonization as a foundation for Space Exploration?
Occasionally, but not plausibly. The entire history of colonization has ALWAYS been driven by a search for natural resources; even the search for land has been less about the need to establish habitation than the need to expand cultivation of staple crops or obtain a resource (sometimes, the land itself) that can be sold for profit.
Is there valuable realestate on the moon or the Near Earth Asteroids? I'll bet there is. The question is, valuable FOR WHAT?
Well the purposes and uses of a fully or partial functional brain transplants will be up to the users really. But the technologie will be here way befor we start buidling space ships like in star trek or babylon 5.
True as that is, THAT tech level would be more than redundant for the simple task of colonizing the solar system; we could do that with the technology we have RIGHT NOW, and thirty years of advances would only make that process cheaper and easier.
The only reason we haven't done it yet is because we don't have a compelling reason to do so. All romanticism aside "Look at me, I'm in space!" just isn't valuable enough to society to spend billions of dollars on space flight infrastructure and habitation. On the other hand, "Look at me, I just found fifty tons of platinum ore in this crater over here!" very well might be, especially if you're able to mine enough ore to pay for the mission itself, and MOST especially if you manage to turn a profit. When that happens, space becomes a growth industry like any other, and the motivation exists to make transportation cheaper in order to maximize profit as much as possible. From that follows infrastructure; industry grows around infrastructure, communities grow around industries, and those communities become colonies.
Sooner or later, colonies become countries, countries become races, and races become species. By the time humans start developing prosthetic bodies, there will probably already be a few subclasses of humans spread throughout the solar system already, and cybernetic humans will just be one more contender in an evolutionary drag race.
fully or partial brain transplants technologie have more use to us then building space ships.
Which is why that technology will never be useful for space exploration.
