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Posted on 07/23/2015 11:38:14 AM PDT by ckilmer
Dude, kinetic travel through space to another star system is insane. There is a 100% chance of catastrophic destruction from debris. At the required speeds even atoms will ablate the craft to nothing over such distances.
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True, and you’ll be OK as long as you don’t wear a red shirt when you go down to the planet surface. /s
It would for awhile, but if the star it orbits is dying then it’s likely getting bigger and bigger (Red Giant). When that happens solar radiation increases and starts blowing atmospheric gases off of the planet, sending that water vapor and various other gases into space. So as the planet orbits the star it has a comet like tail that always points away from the star. Until the entire atmosphere has been blown away. Then you’re left with a really hot rock.
Luckily we’ll never have to worry about that because we can’t actually accelerate anything that fast.
It’s theoretically possible that we could find some other way to travel FTL, like warp drives, or wormholes, but there is no way we can just keep our foot on the gas and get to that speed in the conventional way.
We should invade and colonize
:)
I just made a reservation. No 0bama! No Hillary!
It is just as amazing as Lou Gehrig dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. What are the odds???
Reminds me of the winningest pitcher to never win MLB’s Cy Young Award.
Worm holes. Worm hole drive is the only way imo. Imagine a 10 mile jump 1,000 times a second at zero actual velocity. That’s solar exploitation speed. With higher energies the worm holes/jumps can be farther distances. It just requires a large energy supply. The worm hole drive itself requires something else, beyond contemporary physics.
“The worm hole drive itself requires something else, beyond contemporary physics.”
Yeah, that’s a pretty big issue. It might make a feasible mode of travel, but before we can see if it’s feasible, we have to figure out if it is even possible.
Personally, I doubt we will ever be able to travel through a wormhole, either a natural one, or one we generate, and survive the trip. I believe we’d have to endure some pretty immense forces, akin to what you’d experience inside a black hole, and what could protect us from that?
Perhaps a combination of the warp and wormhole concepts could work. If you could create a space-time warp bubble around the ship, that is about the only thing I can think of that might protect you while you traverse the wormhole.
More wishful fantasy spinning by NASA in hopes of keeping funding for dubious science.
Every year they run this play during Congresses deliberation on NASA funding.
“They” have been telling me this for 50 years.
The worm hole is not gravitationally-induced it is electrically-induced.
A worm hole drive is a ‘warp drive’. ‘Holes’ of larger distances correlate to increased relative velocity. It is not a “hole” per se as it is a modification of the space the vehicle occupies to another point in space. The change in location occurs at the speed of light (electricity). The distances between the jumps can represent (in aggregate) a velocity much greater than the speed of light all the while vehicle occupants experience zero inertial effect.
Hmm, I’ll have to read more about this idea, I had only ever heard of traditional worm holes, not electrically-induced ones. Not sure how that would even be possible.
These writers of real estate property descriptions are all the same no matter the size or distance of the listing.
“Newly listed planet. Charming fixer-upper in a rural neighborhood. The commute is a bit long (1400 light years), but the tranquility when you arrive makes the journey worthwhile.”
“Homeowners Association managed by the Romulans. Pest control provided by the Borg. “
“Ready to move in...”
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Seriously, 1400 light years away and they imagine they can tell if it is habitable?
“Send a seed ship.”
Where do we send nominations?
True...but all great discoveries find their source in stuff like this.
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