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100 Year Starship Public Symposium
I recently completed this collection of concept art for DARPA's 100 Year Starship Public Symposium in Orlando, Florida. In his presentation, speaker J.N. Nielsen describes the technological advancement of human beings in six steps...
100 Year Starship Public Symposium
I recently completed this collection of concept art for DARPA's 100 Year Starship Public Symposium in Orlando, Florida. In his presentation, speaker J.N. Nielsen describes the technological advancement of human beings in six steps...
For more info on the symposium check out www.100yss.org
A Class O spacefaring civilization, or a planetary-bound civilization, has no capacity for space-flight. (Pre-Sputnik civilization).
A Class I spacefaring civilization has the kind of minimal capacity that we now possess to loft satellites and human beings into orbit, and even to visit nearby heavenly bodies such as the moon, (Sputnik and after).
A Class II spacefaring civilization might be defined as one that had established a permanent, self-sustaining presence off the surface of the world of its biological origin.
A Class III spacefaring civilization would have achieved practical, durable, and routine interstellar travel.
A Class IV spacefaring civilizations would be defined in terms of practical, durable, and routine inter-galactic travel.
A Class V spacefaring civilization would be defined in terms of practical, durable, and routine travel in the multiverse, i.e., beyond the known universe defined by the consequences of the big bang.
