Better Study Your Math If You Want a Seat on the 100-Year Starship Project

Perhaps you have heard that there is a new project going on with the help of NASA and DARPA - it is called; The Hundred Year Starship Project. In other words they plan on taking Star Trek, and many of the concepts behind it all, and making it a reality. And why not, it's been over 40 years since we put a man on the moon. It seems like we've been slacking. For anyone who stops and thinks about it, or anyone who was living through the 1970s, they would have thought that by now we would have a colony on Mars, one on the Moon, and have already built our Star Trek future. Something went terribly wrong. Luckily, the powers that be are going to embolden the innovative and entrepreneurial minds in the United States to take out those barriers and borders to thinking, and asked that they not only dream about such things, but assist in building that future. However, as much as this idea might make your mouth water, you won't be much good to the project, or even get a seat on the hundred year starship, if that's your goal, unless you study your math, unless you stay in school, and are able to match wits, intelligence, and abilities with the future graduates of MIT. We've all heard that funny quote; "it doesn't take a rocket scientist to do this, that, or the other thing," and yet here is something that may not take a rocket scientist, but it's going to take a great deal of mathematics to participate. To build the 100 year starship project, we are going to need new nanotech materials, new propulsion systems, new interstellar transportation strategies, biological modification, and so much more. All of which will require abilities in mathematics. Some might say that this project is geared towards keeping people in school, and producing more math and science students. Yes, I would agree that this is most likely one of the goals, but it is not the only goal, after all, the goal is to actually design, and start building the hundred year starship, and then "to boldly go, where no man has gone before!" Of course, if you drop out of school and if you don't take advanced math classes, then it's hard to say if you can be of much value to such a huge project, something that will revolutionize mankind, and change everything. If you want to be part of the future, you need to be thinking here, and you need to study your mouth and stay in school. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.