Why is annual energy growth rate or industrial growth rate assumed to correlate to the speed of space travel?
Just because we build more power plants or sell more tractors doesn't imply a corresponding improvement in spacecraft technology.
The Wait Calculation seems to make even less sense than the Drake Equation - which is at least correct in theory even if the actual variables have so much uncertainty it is useless.
Just because we build more power plants or sell more tractors doesn't imply a corresponding improvement in spacecraft technology.
The Wait Calculation seems to make even less sense than the Drake Equation - which is at least correct in theory even if the actual variables have so much uncertainty it is useless.