1 posted on
05/14/2018 11:08:12 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
cons: You can never come back.
pros: We could send liberals.
2 posted on
05/14/2018 11:13:51 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: BenLurkin
the only way meaningful space travel could be possible would be to slip in and out of another dimension where time does not exist
3 posted on
05/14/2018 11:26:13 PM PDT by
KTM rider
( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
To: BenLurkin
and transplanting the seed of humanity among the stars...
What did the stars ever do to us to deserve that fate? :)
In the meantime, there’s a whole group of folks in San Francisco that are desperately figuring out how to get to Uranus.
4 posted on
05/14/2018 11:28:34 PM PDT by
dp0622
(The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: BenLurkin
Popular Science had an article on interstellar travel in this month's issue. From what I read, being stuck on a spacecraft for your entire lifetime would be a hard to take mentally. If anything broke down, there better be replacement parts.
9 posted on
05/14/2018 11:58:43 PM PDT by
jonrick46
(Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
To: BenLurkin
while [FTL] remains entirely theoretical at this point No, it does not. You will find NO theoretical physicist who believes that it's possible. Saying that we will someday find a way to travel faster than the speed of light is EXACTLY the same as saying "someday we'll find a shorter distance between two points than a straight line."
No. We won't.
The geometry of the universe is what it is, and so many phenomena from intrinsic spin to antimatter to mass energy equivalence to time dilation to Lorentz contraction to things as simple as the color of gold, ALL are a direct result of relativity.
There is no shorter distance between two points than a straight line. Period.
10 posted on
05/15/2018 12:22:11 AM PDT by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue to be born?)
To: BenLurkin
Before people traveling to other stars happens the solar system will be well populated. At that point the occupation of other planets and moons by people would be routine enough to make a star voyage a realistic goal. I don't expect it to happen any other way
11 posted on
05/15/2018 12:22:15 AM PDT by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: BenLurkin
13 posted on
05/15/2018 12:44:17 AM PDT by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: BenLurkin
They’d also have to figure out a way to create artificial gravity........
20 posted on
05/15/2018 3:51:15 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(Mother nature is a serial killer......)
To: BenLurkin
Dimensions are not places where you can go. There is no “fourth dimension” you can slip into to avoid the laws of physics.
21 posted on
05/15/2018 4:26:25 AM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -Nietzche)
To: BenLurkin
Flux capacitor as a power source would do the trick.
22 posted on
05/15/2018 4:40:26 AM PDT by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: BenLurkin
Another “Scientific” idea that makes Infinity Wars look like a documentary.
24 posted on
05/15/2018 5:12:50 AM PDT by
DungeonMaster
(...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
To: BenLurkin
I don’t think that physicists, who are madly seeking undetectable phenomena, are going to solve the FTL problem.
26 posted on
05/15/2018 6:05:39 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: BenLurkin
world ships capable of supporting multiple generations of travellers (aka. generation ships), Fine for the first generation of trained crew eager to leave Earth, but what happens when a quarter of the crew are three-foot tall entropy monsters. "You let go of the airlock knob. Let it go! You'll get a spanking if you turn that an no one will hear you scream."
28 posted on
05/15/2018 6:23:38 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
To: BenLurkin
It would suck to be an early star explorer, get there after many years and tribulations, only to discover people with newer tech beat you there.
30 posted on
05/15/2018 7:05:08 AM PDT by
Rinnwald
To: BenLurkin
As Heinlein noted, settling the Solar System will be like any of Earth’s Great Migrations, “The cowards never started, and the weaklings died on the way.”
40 posted on
05/15/2018 11:33:22 AM PDT by
DaBeerfreak
(As long as the politicians believe they're not the problem; we have a big problem.)
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