Well you should really take into account relativistic effects since a trip at close to the speed of light wouldnt take very much time at all for the traveler.
Complicated math, I don't wanna
Well you should really take into account relativistic effects since a trip at close to the speed of light wouldnt take very much time at all for the traveler.
not understanding physics makes the possible more impossible, however.
Its not that we're not thinking hard enough, or that we don't have the technology yet, or that we haven't invented some new wonder engine that runs on rainbows.
Its the sheer size of the universe. Most people have no idea just how fucking big it all is. They just look up at night and think, oh, that shit can't be much farther away than the moon, and we've BEEN there.
The universe is too big. Astronomy will forever be about observing stars, not visiting them. Deal with it.
There are bounds placed on innovation by the laws of physics.So Triple is a Luddite technophobe?
Things that were once thought to be impossible but are now commonplace off the top of my head:
-Surviving more than three months with AIDS
-Heavier than air flight
-Flying from New York to Japan non-stop
-Running a 4 minute mile
-Supporting 7 billions humans with existing farmland
-Sequencing the human genome
-Restoring erectile function in men with ED
-Giving birth past 50
-Resuscitating someone after a heart attack
-Going more than 35 miles per hour
-Walking on the moon
-Talking to someone in real time who was far away from you
-Having sex without the risk of pregnancy
-Surviving most infections used to be a death sentence now it's a simple prescription
And the list of course could go on and on. But... alas... I'm sure we are done innovating and there will never be another scientific advancement from this day forward. In 10 years all the technology around you will be mostly the same, maybe even worse!
So Triple is a Luddite technophobe?
Things that were once thought to be impossible but are now commonplace off the top of my head:
-Surviving more than three months with AIDS
-Heavier than air flight
-Flying from New York to Japan non-stop
-Running a 4 minute mile
-Supporting 7 billions humans with existing farmland
-Sequencing the human genome
-Restoring erectile function in men with ED
-Giving birth past 50
-Resuscitating someone after a heart attack
-Going more than 35 miles per hour
-Walking on the moon
-Talking to someone in real time who was far away from you
-Having sex without the risk of pregnancy
-Surviving most infections used to be a death sentence now it's a simple prescription
And the list of course could go on and on. But... alas... I'm sure we are done innovating and there will never be another scientific advancement from this day forward. In 10 years all the technology around you will be mostly the same, maybe even worse!
There are bounds placed on innovation by the laws of physics.
Saying we'll have faster than light travel is like saying we'll have a machine that outputs more energy than is input or that we'll create a system that reaches absolute zero.
ok, lesson on scale, now.
Earth to Moon = 248,294 miles (longest manned spaceflight)
Earth to Sun = 92,280,000 miles (371 trips to the moon)
Earth to Nearest Star = 24,800,000,000,000 miles (99,881,591 trips to the moon)
Oh yea, easy. For every MILE between us and the sun, imagine having to go to the moon instead, every MILE. And that's just for the CLOSEST star.
If given infinite resources and time, and maybe a longer lifespan on the order of 100,000 years/person, we might be able to do it.
But we don't.
Really really hard and impossible are the same thing if it's just too hard.
18k lifespan tbh
generation ships have been posited for a trans-solar flight (meaning you dont see it, but your ancestors do)
more than just propulsion, we need to deal with fuel, food, water, waste, and the big one, radiation
If given infinite resources and time, and maybe a longer lifespan on the order of 100,000 years/person, we might be able to do it.
But we don't.
Really really hard and impossible are the same thing if it's just too hard.
The major point of contention is just our puny lifespans. 70 years? Well that's 50 years of travel if we leave at age 20.. someone wanna work out how fast we need to go to travel to say, sirius in our lifetimes to get there before we die?
Anyone know someone who's willing to spend their entire life in a solitary tube just to visit an uninhabited star system?
Yea, impossible.
er ya, whoops
agreed on stasis
hard right now to do without causing cell death from freeze
but someday sooner or later we'll get it right
there's also the fun idea that a ship that left 17k years ago is arriving soon to a planet, and that it's already been colonized by a ship that left 15k years ago with much improved technology