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02-25-2009, 08:03 PM
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since "lifetime" is a pretty ambiguous time constraint, I'll say... in the next 60 years or so.
Whaddaya think, will we make it to Alpha Centauri (or anywhere else) in that time?
I'm not really sure. While there has been an amazing boom in technology in the past 3 decades, almost all of it has been in personal computing power. There haven't been any real breakthroughs in space travel or anything like that. We still rely on rocket engines (and to a lesser extent, ion engines) to power our space-faring vehicles, and unless we find something MUCH faster, I don't see us making it.
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02-25-2009, 08:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | No, we will not. Because even traveling at the speed of light, it would take 5 years to get there and I do not think that we will EVER come close to traveling that fast.
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02-25-2009, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound No, we will not. Because even traveling at the speed of light, it would take more than 60 years to get there.
lowsound | that's where warp drives come in handy 
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02-25-2009, 08:10 PM
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02-25-2009, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Washington State | | | I read an article the other day about the space shuttle using a 5kb chip. Its from the eighties and super simple as to not cause much trouble. The russians upgraded a few years ago to a high tech model and then had to dump their shuttle in the ocean. Too much stuff to go wrong I guess.
My thought is we will not get to another solar system. I think the travel time will take more than 60 years. I think it takes 20-30 years just to get out of our system.
I'd say a larger space station and a moon or mars colony will happen in the next 60 years. But it will most likely be made up of scientists and such. Space tours are very likely. Maybe like a cruise around the moon or something like that. |
02-25-2009, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Va Beach, VA | | | Aside from the speed of the craft we can achieve, I don't think that NASA is going to send anyone farther than the moon without doing EXHAUSTIVE research about how the human body reacts to extended time in space/on the moon. |
02-25-2009, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Istanbul | | | If the mankind doesn't change their habits soon,world will be destroyed in 60 years so,no we won't see it.
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02-25-2009, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by IconBasser since "lifetime" is a pretty ambiguous time constraint, I'll say... in the next 60 years or so.
Whaddaya think, will we make it to Alpha Centauri (or anywhere else) in that time? | Not in our lifetimes, not in any human lifetime. The physics won't allow it.
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02-25-2009, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound No, we will not. Because even traveling at the speed of light, it would take 5 years to get there and I do not think that we will EVER come close to traveling that fast. | One of the most fun aspects of "light-speed travel" is that it would take an infinite amount of energy to get up to light speed. And then, what most people overlook is that it would take exactly as much energy (and time) on the other end to *slow down* again! You can't just hit the brakes in space.
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02-25-2009, 09:38 PM
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02-25-2009, 10:15 PM
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02-26-2009, 12:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Not a chance it will happen within the next 60 years or anytime even close to that.
Comparing humans making a trip to the moon and back with humans making a trip to a nearby star and back is the equivalent of comparing making a trip out your front door to to the mailbox and back with making a trip to the moon and back. 
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02-26-2009, 12:09 AM
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02-26-2009, 12:20 AM
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No, without outside help we won't.
Let's go to the moon first .
Just my 0.02€
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02-26-2009, 01:59 AM
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Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light years away.
I doubt humans will walk on Mars in that timeframe. The physiological and technical challenges of THAT are immense. It's certainly possible but the chance of disaster is much larger than the moon landings. Quote:
Originally Posted by IconBasser since "lifetime" is a pretty ambiguous time constraint, I'll say... in the next 60 years or so.
Whaddaya think, will we make it to Alpha Centauri (or anywhere else) in that time?
I'm not really sure. While there has been an amazing boom in technology in the past 3 decades, almost all of it has been in personal computing power. There haven't been any real breakthroughs in space travel or anything like that. We still rely on rocket engines (and to a lesser extent, ion engines) to power our space-faring vehicles, and unless we find something MUCH faster, I don't see us making it. | |
02-26-2009, 02:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Singapore | | | I'm just waiting for Steve Jobs to create the iShuttle to send us all into space... For $399.99. It'll happen. It will!
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