CIENCIA (Panoramas Futuros-4) Pioneros Galácticos
Los exploradores del siglo XXI se han embarcado en una época de descubrimiento que eclipsa cualquier cosa que soñara Colón. Los avances en la tecnología de la propulsión, el motor de curvatura y la energía solar nos han permitido hacer realidad lo que solamente los escritores de la ciencia ficción soñaron, lo que nos posiciona de manera privilegiada para poder pasar al próximo nivel en la exploración espacial.
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00:00All right, how many of you know what planet this is?
00:22Anyone?
00:24Don't you recognize it?
00:30It's Earth.
00:32Remember?
00:36Let me show you on the map.
00:40It's not so impressive from here, is it?
00:43It's hard to believe that one day that little thing was the horizon of our lives.
00:47There were practical reasons to leave home, of course.
00:50The rewarding resources, the remote possibility that an asteroid would hit us.
00:55But it was never common sense or necessity that led Columbus to the New World or propelled man to the Moon.
01:02It was something else, something that we almost carried in our DNA.
01:05An insatiable curiosity and a desire to explore.
01:09So you have to assume that, once we get the technology we need,
01:13it's inevitable that humanity will end up looking for a new home among the stars.
01:25NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology