2001: A space Oddessy
...ing a book that has ideas in it that are beyond the grasp of humankind. Although many of his ideas seemed impossible to accomplish, surprisingly, Clarke proposed a number of realistic ideas. Clarke recreated any space travel image of his dreams through his book. His only concern was to make the ideas as imaginable as possible. Space is much more complicated than Clarke could imagine, and modern day scientists know that the present day space program does not have the technology to accomplish the missions which were proposed in the book. For example, Clarke had the idea for an interstellar mission to Jupiter. “It had begun, five years ago, as Project Jupiter— the first manned round trip to the greatest of the planets” According to the book, this mission had been started just two years ago from present day. The current space program cannot accomplish a mission of this caliber. However, many modern day scientists know interstellar travel is real and possible. Keeping this in mind, scientists have an incentive to keep advancing. The way I see it, the current day space program is advancing one step at ...