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Post by ArArArchStanton on Feb 25, 2017 17:46:47 GMT
In our own galaxy, with the discovery of the Trappist 1 40 lightyears away, along with Alpha Centauri's Earth like planet around 4.5 lightyears off, the idea of colonizing multiple planets around our section of the galaxy seems much more probable. Sure, it won't happen in our lifetime, and if it does may even be a thousand years off, but you are now living in a time where the possibility of a Star Wars like relationship with other solar systems, is at least a tiny bit realistic.
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Post by aliciarose26 on Feb 25, 2017 17:51:04 GMT
I wonder if anyone out there is just now discovering our solar system.
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Post by Jedan Archer on Feb 25, 2017 21:32:26 GMT
Yeah , there are some promising objects terribly close to home out there, but "close" is only relative. Alpha Centauri (Proxima Centauri sun) is the nearest system by being only about 40 trillion km (25 trillion miles) away from Earth.
But a Space Shuttle at a maximum speed of about 17,600 mph / about 28,300 kph, would take about 165,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The Voyagers (the fastest moving human objects) would take tens of thousands of years to get there. Other propulsion systems like Warp are science fiction, and even disputed in theory, let alone doable from a practical/engineering and physics POV.
So in a thousand years seems fairly optimistic, and the chance of it ever happening is indeed tiny, to say the least.
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Feb 26, 2017 1:52:06 GMT
I wonder if anyone out there is just now discovering our solar system. Life elsewhere is one thing, and it seems probable at this point, but intelligent life is something else entirely and who knows about that one.
But it is interesting to think that some other life may have known about us for a long time and just has no ability to contact us.
The real question is, would you really want to meet them?
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Feb 26, 2017 1:55:19 GMT
Yeah , there are some promising objects terribly close to home out there, but "close" is only relative. Alpha Centauri (Proxima Centauri sun) is the nearest system by being only about 40 trillion km (25 trillion miles) away from Earth. But a Space Shuttle at a maximum speed of about 17,600 mph / about 28,300 kph, would take about 165,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The Voyagers (the fastest moving human objects) would take tens of thousands of years to get there. Other propulsion systems like Warp are science fiction, and even disputed in theory, let alone doable from a practical/engineering and physics POV. So in a thousand years seems fairly optimistic, and the chance of it ever happening is indeed tiny, to say the least. True, there is no viable method currently for getting there.
I'm wondering though, if we figured out a way to get there is let's say 200 years. Is it worth sending a one way mission to colonize the planet, even if it means some sort of cryofreeze for the passengers. I think it is. Even if we can only communicate with them every 4.5 years, to have a sister planet our species controls in the long term is absolutely vital.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 0:18:49 GMT
I'm really hoping an Ackbar can inspect this new system. It's pretty suspicious sounding.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 5:36:16 GMT
I'm really hoping an Ackbar can inspect this new system. It's pretty suspicious sounding. I am on it! |
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on May 6, 2018 11:22:48 GMT
Sadly we won't get the answer in our life time.
I really wish that we didn't focus so much on killing or backstabbing our own kind and focus more on advancing our species.
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