Will Interstellar Travel Ever Be Possible?

Wall Street Pit ^ | February 12, 2017

[2ndDivisionVet]

But a gang of boys in 1852 would never have dreamed of what you saw I 1952.

[EveningStar]

[blueunicorn6]

174,000,000 miles per hour?

Ok, but can it corner?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Secret work is continuing on crystalized soy-kale-current Paltrow-miracle-whatsit mix. It’s going to be Hugh!”

Oh no!

Maybe that does justify billions of tax dollars and a trip to Mars...

[yarddog]

Well there were a lot of flying saucer movies around that time. I think we had seen “Invaders From Mars” at the Bay Theater only a short time before.

[Fungi]

Deuy 29:29: The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

[dainbramaged]

According to some we are already traveling to the stars with our own craft built by reverse engineering crashed alien ships. Whoever is in charge just isn’t into sharing that type of information, I guess.

[Mean Daddy]

I’m not saying it’s not possible, just improbable.

[ETL]

[Ransomed]

If there is no good way around the limits we understand right now, it will require planning on a multi-generational level over thousands of years. If we find a way to make ourselves not die of old age maybe less time would be needed.

[entropy12]

Assuming rockets can fly at speed of light (still waiting for cold fusion and cancer cure), the nearest planet with possible life sustaining conditions is thousands of light years away.

So, when the space ship arrives at the destination, it will be a ghost ship, unless we can procreate in the spaceship several generations of humans. Will there be OB-Gynecologists, facilities to give birth, children’s playgrounds, growing food for thousands of years, and so on and so on.

Can we achieve cold fusion first?

[Secret Agent Man]

the universe will destroy any ship we send.

we have idiots who cant figure out what g-d sex they are y looking at their own junk.

we are regressing in our so-called intelligence. dont deserve to infect anywhere else at our current intellectual decay.

[ETL]

[ETL]

[Secret Agent Man]

It’s cute they think we were on the moon 30 years ago.

Try over 40 years ago.

[FredZarguna]

Well, "minutes" is a pretty vague term. But let's say it's five minutes. At 5 minutes the average acceleration would be 3x10⁸m/s / (5min * 60 sec/min). Divide that by 9.8 m/s². I get ≅ 2600 g's.

Blackout positive acceleration for most people is 5-7 g's. Pilots, and other trained people can withstand 10-15 g's for brief periods of time. People survive ≅ 100 g's for tenths of seconds in impact crashes, but no one could survive 100 g's for seconds, let alone minutes.

[al baby]

And we will call it outercourse

[2ndDivisionVet]

Like a Chevy Vega.

[FredZarguna]

If you were travelling at 99.99c for the trip, you would age only 1 year every 71 years. That puts a 1-way trip of 1500-2100 light years within reach without procreating on the way.

[Oztrich Boy]

Theoretically, this technology will allow a spacecraft to reach 1/4 the speed of light in only a matter of minutes, then travel at nearly 174.3 million miles per hour

Actually 174.3 million miles per hour is about 1/4000 the speed of light

Barbie says "Math is hard"