We as a species have a way of surprising our selves. Do I expect to see interstellar travel in my lifetime, no, but would it surprise me to see it happen, no. One small discovery or break though can lead to 1000 more significant ones which can lead to 100,000 more.
That something could be skunkworks fusion reactor. Who knows.
Not likely,proposals for a fusion powered spacecraft could possible reach Jupitar in 4 months or about 3 times faster than it took Galileo at 44,000 mph.
Lets give this new spacecraft a speed of 120,000 mph,it would still take over 23,000 years to reach our nearest star system(Proxima Centauri) lets advance even more, a newer spacecraft reaches 1 million mph,it will still take 2800 years to get to Centauri.
The above poster is right,unless we break the laws of physics interstellar space travel is just a thing of fiction. propulsion systems within these laws will never work.
But your right about one thing, humans are surprising and maybe someday Einstein will be proven wrong.
Not likely,proposals for a fusion powered spacecraft could possible reach Jupitar in 4 months or about 3 times faster than it took Galileo at 44,000 mph.
Lets give this new spacecraft a speed of 120,000 mph,it would still take over 23,000 years to reach our nearest star system(Proxima Centauri) lets advance even more, a newer spacecraft reaches 1 million mph,it will still take 2800 years to get to Centauri.
The above poster is right,unless we break the laws of physics interstellar space travel is just a thing of fiction. propulsion systems within these laws will never work.
But your right about one thing, humans are surprising and maybe someday Einstein will be proven wrong.
I ment it could be the domino that starts everything, but yeah something has to give for it to be feasible I agree.
Not likely,proposals for a fusion powered spacecraft could possible reach Jupitar in 4 months or about 3 times faster than it took Galileo at 44,000 mph.
Lets give this new spacecraft a speed of 120,000 mph,it would still take over 23,000 years to reach our nearest star system(Proxima Centauri) lets advance even more, a newer spacecraft reaches 1 million mph,it will still take 2800 years to get to Centauri.
The above poster is right,unless we break the laws of physics interstellar space travel is just a thing of fiction. propulsion systems within these laws will never work.
But your right about one thing, humans are surprising and maybe someday Einstein will be proven wrong.
We don't have to, well we might have to break classical physics. But there are many accpeted theories that allow space time fabric "bending" to allow interstallar travel. Whether there are feasible in the next 100 years is yet to be seen.
I don't get why people would want to start settlements on Mars, The planet is almost complete dead,it has very little magnetic field left so terraforming it would be impossible, bubble citys or far underground...take your pick.
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We don't have to, well we might have to break classical physics. But there are many accpeted theories that allow space time fabric "bending" to allow interstallar travel. Whether there are feasible in the next 100 years is yet to be seen.
I'm still waiting for my jet pack and personalized hover car, so wouldn't hold my breath on space bending and worm hole manipulation.
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I'm still waiting for my jet pack and personalized hover car, so wouldn't hold my breath on space bending and worm hole manipulation.
Well... Jet packs do exist. They're not very practical and I wouldn't fly one because I value living but if you've got 200K or so burning a hole in your pocket you can own your own Jetpack.
Well... Jet packs do exist. They're not very practical and I wouldn't fly one because I value living but if you've got 200K or so burning a hole in your pocket you can own your own Jetpack.
And they only last for like a minute, so not really what I had in mind. It's kind of like how Tounces the Driving Cat could drive a car, just not very well.
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We don't have to, well we might have to break classical physics. But there are many accpeted theories that allow space time fabric "bending" to allow interstallar travel. Whether there are feasible in the next 100 years is yet to be seen.
we need to figure out how to move the universe around an object not move a object around the universe.
Oh and we need a solar-on array and inverse tacyhon emitter and a easily modifiable deflector array.
Once we have that we can go anywhere and destroy anything.
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Well... Jet packs do exist. They're not very practical and I wouldn't fly one because I value living but if you've got 200K or so burning a hole in your pocket you can own your own Jetpack.
And they also experimented with flying cars in the 50's or 60's. It also just isn't practical.
Not to mention the way some people drive, I wouldn't want to give them the option of flying.
Hellyer has always been crazy, His unification of the armed forces while in some instances was considered to be smart (unified logistics), went so far that it destroyed the fabric and moral of the armed forces for years.
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Most of the social conversation is positive, but there's a consistent undercurrent that's not so positive: what has Curiosity accomplished, really? She's been on Mars for a year, driven a kilometer and a half, drilled two holes. What does the mission have to show for all this time and all the effort and all the money that it took to get Curiosity there? Where's the science? I hear this from a few members of the public, but I've been hearing it a lot from other scientists.
I'll be defending Curiosity below, but I'll begin by agreeing that there's not much science to show yet -- at least not compared to what we are going to get. In the last few days, I've seen several mission scientists and engineers respond to questions like: what has Curiosity's biggest accomplishment been so far? And pretty much everybody has answered that the mission's greatest scientific accomplishment to date is that it has shown Mars was habitable -- that there was a time when there was an environment with liquid water at a friendly pH that persisted for at least a little while. The habitable environment is the one that created the flat-lying, fine-grained rocks visible at Yellowknife Bay.
There are three reasons we haven't started yet. There's one that you can justifiably be annoyed about. But the other two explain why you're going to have to wait for the science, and also why the wait will be so, so worth it.
Reason #1: They weren't ready to do all the science (or driving) when Curiosity landed.
Reason #2: Curiosity is not where the science is going to happen -- yet.
Reason #3: Curiosity is not a flyby mission.
So, for all the scientists who are looking over the Curiosity team's shoulders, asking "are we there yet?" The answer is "no" and maybe also "sit down and be quiet." We have a long, long way to go. It's going to be a grueling road trip, with not a lot of scientific reward along the way.
Spirit and Opportunity both had what... 3 month long mission plans? Spirit went for 6 years while Opportunity is still going. Throw in the fact that Curiosity is powered by a nuclear reactor compared to its solar powered predecessors and I think they've got some leeway time to their 2 year mission plan.... like the bloody thing will probably roll up and greet the first humans on Mars.
Spirit and Opportunity both had what... 3 month long mission plans? Spirit went for 6 years while Opportunity is still going. Throw in the fact that Curiosity is powered by a nuclear reactor compared to its solar powered predecessors and I think they've got some leeway time to their 2 year mission plan.... like the bloody thing will probably roll up and greet the first humans on Mars.
