Posted on 02/12/2017 7:07:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If the nearest target star is, say, Alpha Centauri, then Proxima Centauri at only 4.24 light years away, might be a reasonable trip.
After all, could it be any worse, psychologically, than the last 8-years?
The Republic is lost when even red-blooed American FReepers have jumped on that bandwagon.
“Warp Drive” or something equivelantly functional will exist.
While I am a just physics hobbyist and hack, actually am playing with something interesting that could tie relativistic gravity to quantum mechanics and open the door for warp drive.
Note: under this model, the ship and people therein do not move faster than light. Rather, the space around them does. This has precedent in current theories of cosmology, namely that space itself after the Big Bang during inflation and some spatial distances between observable galaxies are approaching movement at superluminal speeds.
Will we see it in our lifetime? I doubt it. But it will happen IMHO.
All of that aside, some of the technologies mentioned in the article to get us to near solar systems in a reasonable period of time.
Personally, I have no desire to go to the stars. It gets awfully hot there.I could name many people that I would like to send there.
YES
What stuns me is I can ask submariners, jet
fighter pilots, tank commanders..
Would you go into space?
99% say no
I say light the fuse
https://youtu.be/8GGuLjiJyOM?t=2
Yeah right! And who is going to finance these spaceships which can fly at speed of light? Puleez..can we just have cold fusion first, for huge amounts of energy available on earth?
The four methods of propulsion described are all limited to ordinary, relativistic velocities. For practical interstellar travel, a faster than light drive is needed. So far, that seems beyond the reach of both theory and technology.
BtW, I am NOT the only one. Far - and I mean FAR - smarter people whom I sometimes have the pleasure of speaking with are also on a similar path.
Exactly: the speed limit in space is the acceptable kinetic damage to the spacecraft.
We don’t yet have a means of interstellar travel, but we will.
Humans have pondered faster than light travel for generations. Anything we can imagine, we can create ... eventually. We will always be looking for that little anomaly in the test results, that little “blip” that can’t be explained.
Then we will have the technological breakthrough, followed by the deaths of a dozens or so intrepid explorers and scientists, and we’ll scatter the galaxy. It’s just a matter of time.
“Could get us to”*
Did you ever see the Top Gear episode where they try to build a space shuttle?
One of the funniest things ever on tv.
They had a guy who was an expert with rc planes and he was supposed to fly the car (yes, car) they shot into space back down to a safe landing.
The guy was really serious and the look on his face at the end was priceless.
Have you tried the "poon" brand?
Lets get this pig airborne
That’s why you need a good navigator.
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