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2/1/2015 12:58:33 AM
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Are humans destined to colonize other worlds?
First off, there are many adversities faced when the topic of interstellar travel rises. There are just too many issues to make interstellar travel viable, in our life times and possibly, ever. There is the issue of propulsion, as our traditional means of getting from point A to point B doesn't really cut it when moving across the vast distances of space. There are viable methods, like wormholes and Alcubierre drives, but they're entirely theoretical. Other problems like protecting the shuttle from radiation and space debris and something known as The Wait Calculation really don't make things better. The list goes on, which brings me back to my question...
Is it probable?
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Put it this way People are stupid So no
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Simple answer: no Science answer:it's long so I put it in the spoiler[spoiler]ha ha made you look[/spoiler]
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If we can't do it ourselves we should fire some basic lifeforms at other planets. I think we have a duty to make sure life, in whatever form, survives.
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Edited by foxhound: 2/2/2015 8:00:53 PMIt would take us 80,000 years to reach alpha centauri(the closest star to Sol 4.5 ly away) going as fast as Voyager 2 is right now which Is going close to 20,000 miles per second We have to figure Out how to manipulate space time and breach that barrier. Using exotic matter(to excite dark matter) or reverse engineering alien relics(which I am not sure we haven't already found)Simple as that.
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1 ReplyAnything is possible [spoiler]With Imagination.[/spoiler]
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5 Repliesyou said theoretical when you should have said hypothetical..... I actually hate you a little now.
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Yes... Just think, we used to think it was impossible to get to the moon, but we did. We thought the earth was the center of the solar system, but we proved otherwise. We used to think earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happened because we pissed off the gods... Everything we doubt is impossible is only because our current limit in technology and intelligence. 100 years from now, I guarantee that we'll have accomplished something that we currently think is impossible. As long as we don't end up killing each other and the planet first, we can do anything.
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Anything is possible, BRUH. Don't forget that, BRUH.
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Humans were made here on earth, but not meant to die here.
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1 ReplyWe will never colonize other worlds as long as republicans exist
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8 RepliesITT: Sci fi geeks think their favorite stories are actually possible and within the realm of reason. OT: people thought we were going to have a lunar colony by the 2000s. I highly doubt Interstellar travel will be possible unless humanity manages to survive another thousand years without regressing at all. I think the best use of our resources would be in learning completely about our own planet and biology. First, explore inward and become on knowledgeable about ourselves. Then, after we've mastered our own planet, we can start thinking about other stars systems.
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Its suppose to be like that. We were once Jus a big blob magma once! Called pangea, I think. But the world and people can't work together.
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1 ReplyProbably, yes. Unfortunately, not in any of our lifetimes.
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3 RepliesThe only thing a human is "destined" for is to die. Eventually completely if we don't end up being space fairing.
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Of course. May not happen in any of our life times but if we can get to the moon then I'm sure we could eventually reach the edges of our galaxy and the whole universe eventually.
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1 Replynice interstellar screenshot
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Destined? Probably not. Probable yes, but not necessarily in our lifetimes. It all depends on so many things. NASA and the ESA will definitely send a manned mission to Mars. Eventually. But even NASA says not till the 2030s and the ESA hasn't set a time frame. It could then go one of two ways. It could play out like the Apollo missions and just stop. Or they could eventually set up a mars base. But that could take over a century if they're not looking to start for 15-25 years. Then you've got your private companies. There's so many of them out there with 2018 as their target, but most are running behind schedule. Even assuming one of the more enthusiastic proposals by Mars One there won't be a human base on Mars until 2025. Even then it would only be for 4 people, reaching capacity for 40 people in 10 years. Assuming all went well with all the missions and they continued their planned schedule, it would reach a capacity of 400 in 100 years. But all of this could be accelerated by setting up a moon base and/or a space elevator. Only Russia and Japan have plans to colonise the moon and they both have vague targets in the 2030s. A space elevator could cut the cost of launching spacecraft from $2500 to $250 per kilo, but there's no plans to build one right now. This could all be sped up again through asteroid mining, but even the most optimistic plans start in the 2020s. Even then it would take several decades to build the infrastructure to a point where it would turn a profit. So assuming everything goes to plan, we might have 2, maybe 5 (because US, EU, China and Russia have to keep up with each other) moon bases in 20-30 years. Maybe a few Mars bases at the same time, just around the time asteroid mining starts to turn a profit. By the turn of the century, again being wildly optimistic, it [i]could[/i] reach the point that we have half a dozen moon bases and Mars bases of 50-1000 people. This is probably the point we could start building longer range ships to go to the dwarf planets in asteroid belt and Jupiter's moons. Assuming all goes well and we don't blow ourselves up by 2150 we could have a combined total population of over 30,000 on the moon and Mars and maybe another 10,000 in the outer solar system. But really who knows??? It could happen. It could all die out like the Apollo missions did. But I don't think we're going to see anything star treky for a long, long time. More like the "Alien" universe with long assed journeys between worlds. Extra solar exploration is going to need a massive breakthrough in propulsion or cryo tech to be playable though, and that could take centuries.
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2 RepliesWho says we havent alread you think the goverments of the world would tell us
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Eh. Maybe. If we aren't killed attempting to live on those god forsaken rocks.
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Destined? No, I wouldn't say that. We may all very well be destroyed before we ever leave this rock. Do humans have the potential to leave this world, and perhaps eventually inhabit others? Indeed, but that'll be quite some time from now.
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Closest star system is proxima centauri which is 4 light years away. Unless we get some extraterrestrial intervention, I don't think we're going anywhere.
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1 ReplyYes they are. It's inevitable unless we want to die out.
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#manifestdestiny
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3 RepliesEdited by Geth: 2/2/2015 12:26:00 AMIn our own system, possibly. Outside our system, no. Space is to large and even at the fastest speed conceivable it would take thousands of years just to reach a world that could be colonized by humans. It will never happen
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We might be advanced enough around the time the sun blows, but not any time soon.
