NASA really fell through. How did they go from grand achievements like faking a moon landing to childish-pretend-play-we-have-space-tourism-now posters?
Either this, or in your haste to respond to my inital comment,you missed the part that should have indicated my tongue was firmly lodged inside my cheek. Re-read it very slowly?
Nothing wrong with dreaming, but reality bites. Physics will tell you that mankind's adventure into space will be limited. Our nearest star is Proxima Centauri, and it would take a ship 17,900 years to get there travelling at 150,000 mph. If Voyager 1 is headed towards it, it will get there in 76,000 years.
Tell me, what's more likely to happen first. Thermonuclear war, or a settlement of 1,000 people anywhere in space?
There are PDFs and ridiculously large TIFFs available for you to download and print [1]. Click on one of the images to see the respective download link. Just bring the PDF to a professional print shop and pick a size. At least that's what I'm going to do :)
I can get 40MB tiff files if I click on the "Download Printable Version" link at the bottom of the page. If you're still having trouble finding larger sizes, let me know which ones are problematic and I'll see about getting it fixed.
NASA / JPL put out some beautiful stuff. I used one of their space images from http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/ as the background for a small game I made a year or so ago.
This is bread and circuses for nerds...dopey mindless marketing drivel for public consumption.
It's very easy to fall in love with the ideas behind NASA and space exploration, but NASA itself is corrupt as all hell and is an arm of the military industrial complex and it always amazes me when they get a completely free pass here.
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Here, NASA reminds us that there is still room for new aspirations in a culture that currently is hung-up on post-apocalyptic doom-and-gloom futures.
Tell me, what's more likely to happen first. Thermonuclear war, or a settlement of 1,000 people anywhere in space?
[1] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
These are oddly not available for "51 Pegasi b" and beyond though. Only PDFs for those.
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/5/15/8613099/spacex-made-s...
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/nasa-travel-posters-exopl...
The doom marine in me demands a poster for Phobos!
Somewhat related, I also love these vintage posters of planetary missions by the Chop Shop Store.
http://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/space-exploration-t...
It's very easy to fall in love with the ideas behind NASA and space exploration, but NASA itself is corrupt as all hell and is an arm of the military industrial complex and it always amazes me when they get a completely free pass here.