Do you foresee humanity building large spacecraft in the next 100 years?

<QUOTE>I've been sitting here watching movies</QUOTE>

Those spacecrafts serve the purpose in the context of entertainment.

Building a "large [manned] spacecraft" won't happen unless there's something clear to gain from it. No government (or federation of governments) is going to fork vast sums of money for a project which will inevitably last longer than their duration. If it brings them votes and political influence, they'll do it. If it costs them votes, it'll remain on the big screen only.

At the moment, we don't have the will necessary to build much of anything. Even the ISS is just a PR boondoggle. The Russian launches might as well be called US launches, as guess who is footing the bill (no, not the Russians.)

The ISS should be scrapped and the head of NASA fired. Get someone in that position with vision, who won't bow down, or bend over for the government know-nothings that usually ruin any manned mission with politics and PR.

100 years is a LONG time. A century ago, we thought an ocean liner like the Titanic was "state-of-the-art". Since then we have visited every planet in the Solar System, save Pluto, and that is on the schedule for 4 years from now. It seems really unlikely that anyone in 1911 thought that the future held the sort of connectivity we have in nearly every household throughout the world. Well, except my Mom's. She is SO last century.

Is there hope? Barely any. So long as corporations are allowed to buy politicians, excuse me, I mean donate to their re-election campaigns, of course, the ultimate say will always be the fat cats running the banks, the oil moguls, the drug companies, etc. None of these guys think space exploration is a good idea, so neither does the government.

You're only hitting half of the NASA situation. True they've been taken off of the moon projects, but now private companies have been placed in charge of moon landings and low earth orbit, and NASA has been reset on being an exploratory organization. Their next mission is Mars. There are even plans to begin terraforming Mars in the no-so-distant future. So to answer, yes I foresee large spacecraft soon. Possibly (even probably) in our lifetime.

i might think of the main possibly ameliorations may be the upward thrust of digital gadgets to offer a miles better variety of sounds and outcomes. The circulate may be removed from the extra "novelty" synthesizer outcomes to sounds that would desire to mimic pianos or pipe organs or maybe string gadgets. look to rock bands to steer the way in a number of those strategies. Keyboards have often replaced pianos and can be programmed to imitate many different gadgets. it is likewise a danger digital gadgets might desire to result percussion. String gadgets will proceed to play a factor, yet many--like the electrical powered guitar--might take delivery of digital advancements. If this might look somewhat sacreligious to musical purists, take coronary heart. music composed for harpsichords has been acceptably achieved on pianos. Many great classical performances have been more advantageous via the magic of digital modifying. The music lives on and constantly will.