Desert Snake
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How are we going to reach the exo-planets?
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Wormholes, or warp-speed? Or something else?
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
4 identical threads in a row. That's lag! *grin*
I think the issue of traversing at or past the speed of light would be paramount to accomplish such a feat.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Proxima Centauri (star) has the closest extrasolar planet in its habital zone. It's about 12 light years from our solar system.
crowfeather
One
What a joke. Humans can't even get to Brighton on a bank holiday.
Interstellar travel is best left to hurtling chunks of heavy metal.
Humans might find more gainful employment trying to figure out how not to destroy their own planet.
Interstellar travel is best left to hurtling chunks of heavy metal.
Humans might find more gainful employment trying to figure out how not to destroy their own planet.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Proxima is about 4.2 lightyears away....
However, the difference between 4.2 and 12 is fairly minor in comparison to the physical and engineering requirements for moving even a robotic probe there in a timeframe of interest to humans...A year or so ago, there was a proposal to fly a fleet of tiny probes on a laser beam to Proxima (or it's neighbors, Alpha Centauri A and B) in the next fifty years or so, despite the fact that none of the required technology has been designed or tested yet.
I don't presume we'll discover FTL travel or a method of surviving a wormhole, so I'd offer generational ark-ships.
crowfeather
One
Only a leftist could invert it the way you have.*gasp* Now you're sounding like a leftist.
Try reading it like:
When leftists realize that obsessing over people, seeing only people, and seeing everything only in people-terms, they may suddenly realize that people actually don't count for anything, in the bigger picture.
This is why placing God above petty little human concerns, results in humans doing far better, and in more reasonable ways, than they observably do by bypassing God and jerking off to their own imaginary importance.
voted for something else; have no clue as to what it would be, though...
although I am hopeful for some discovery that will make travel to the stars cheap, reliable and easy (and heck, even into the solar system), if there is such a solution, it will probably not come for many more years. And I think that even relativistic travel to the stars is millennia away.
although I am hopeful for some discovery that will make travel to the stars cheap, reliable and easy (and heck, even into the solar system), if there is such a solution, it will probably not come for many more years. And I think that even relativistic travel to the stars is millennia away.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Who is god to you?
crowfeather
One
Not a 'who', that's for sure. More a 'what'.
But above all, a complete and endlessly impenetrable Mystery.
Taoists call it tao. I call it Reality.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Your right. It's approx 4 light years. I was looking at information of stars and planets within a 12 light year radius. That's even better! =0)
james bond
Well-Known Member
Ha ha ho ho hee hee. You are at the point where I call you can't get there from here. So, the question is what do you do?
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Doesnt matter, i know what you meant.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Sadly it won't be in our lifetime. I would have loved to see interstellar travel to another solar system. I think signals would be the best bet atm. Something like radar mapping of the surface of extrasolar planets light years away.
There are several problems, physics being the biggest, engineering, cost, (and hence politics) all go to not making interstellar flight possible for at least several generations, if at all. Great pity
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
And how does one manage to weave an endlessly impenetrable mystery into such deeply polarized politics?
And how do you reconcile Taoism with your political views?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Hopefully it will be before the sun turns into a red giant. I can only imagine how life on earth might be and it's people during such an era provided humankind isn't extinct by then.
crowfeather
One
I have no political views. But I certainly appear to be an extreme right-winger to extreme left-wingers.
This is because they are no longer even able to imagine anyone not having a political view.
You'd be amazed; I am one who gets banned from right-wing websites for being a left-winger.
Makes a rather good case, I'd say, for being whatever it is that I am.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Regarding "extreme left wingers", you do appear to paint with a rather broad and presumptuous brush.