waiting for the announcement from obama
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I'm much more excited about sending a probe to Europa than a manned mission to Mars. At present, the former presents so many interesting possibilities regarding what we can discover about extraterrestrial life on a geologically active planet chock full of water ice; whereas the latter is a suicide mission to a barren, geologically dead planet.
Quertthe fermi paradox
There is no paradox. Interstellar space travel is just REALLY difficult and limited to the stars within about 10 LY (you can get about 10% light speed off of a Orion drive our or Nuclear salt-water rocket with 1980s level tech however it is prohibitively expensive and against more than one space treaties). Radio waves don't make it much further than 1 LY before they are indistinguishable from background noise.
Basically there could be intelligent alien life close by and we wouldn't even know about it.
There is no paradox. Interstellar space travel is just REALLY difficult and limited to the stars within about 10 LY (you can get about 10% light speed off of a Orion drive our or Nuclear salt-water rocket with 1980s level tech however it is prohibitively expensive and against more than one space treaties). Radio waves don't make it much further than 1 LY before they are indistinguishable from background noise.
Basically there could be intelligent alien life close by and we wouldn't even know about it.
it's all about that anti-matter rocket. potentially reaching 70% or higher of the speed of light where time dilation is starting to become significant.
the technology is within our grasp. we would need to produce or discover much larger quantities (as in grams!) of anti-matter, as CERN can barely power a lightbulb with the amount of anti-matter they produce. but one day the stars will be ours!!
the technology is within our grasp. we would need to produce or discover much larger quantities (as in grams!) of anti-matter, as CERN can barely power a lightbulb with the amount of anti-matter they produce. but one day the stars will be ours!!
Also it really depends on how you view time, we as a species are fairly new and primitive, but imagine a species that has evolved to have lived over a billion years. We're also still dealing with our physical bodies which die also fairly fast, now when you'd take intelligent life that has created ways to store their minds on computers etc. a 1000 years for example is absolutely nothing for them, they could even go in "sleep mode" so to say for all these years, and literally wake up and arrive at their destination.
to put it in perspective
calculated that any galactic empire would have spread outwards from its home planet at about 0.25% of the speed of light. The result is that after 50m years it would extend over 130,000 light years, with zealous colonisers moving in a relatively uniform cloud and more reticent ones protruding from a central blob. Since the Milky Way is estimated to be 100,000-120,000 light years across, outposts would be sprinkled throughout the galaxy, even if the home planet were, like Earth, located on the periphery.
Now 50 millions years to us is incomprehensible, but to a species that has lived for billions of years it's relatively nothing.
This is also one of the probabilities of the Fermi Paradox and our entire galaxy could have been colonized long long ago, we're just too primitive to notice it.
to put it in perspective
[quote]calculated that any galactic empire would have spread outwards from its home planet at about 0.25% of the speed of light. The result is that after 50m years it would extend over 130,000 light years, with zealous colonisers moving in a relatively uniform cloud and more reticent ones protruding from a central blob. Since the Milky Way is estimated to be 100,000-120,000 light years across, outposts would be sprinkled throughout the galaxy, even if the home planet were, like Earth, located on the periphery. [/quote]
Now 50 millions years to us is incomprehensible, but to a species that has lived for billions of years it's relatively nothing.
This is also one of the probabilities of the Fermi Paradox and our entire galaxy could have been colonized long long ago, we're just too primitive to notice it.
It's cool that they found water and all, but I kinda wish they had found oil so the government would start funding NASA more instead of just buying more fighter jets.
olyIt's cool that they found water and all, but I kinda wish they had found oil so the government would start funding NASA more instead of just buying more fighter jets.
I know it's a joke but do you have any clue how oil is created :D
I know it's a joke but do you have any clue how oil is created :D
Suddently, Teamfortress.tv is full of astrophysicist and engineers
RoodYSuddently, Teamfortress.tv is full of astrophysicist and engineers
What else do you think nerds study?
What else do you think nerds study?
http://lolworthy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/mars-crying-comic.jpg
Teacher showed us this in class, thought it was pretty funny
Teacher showed us this in class, thought it was pretty funny
BonafideolyIt's cool that they found water and all, but I kinda wish they had found oil so the government would start funding NASA more instead of just buying more fighter jets.
I know it's a joke but do you have any clue how oil is created :D
The current sentiment is that Mars did have oceans at one time. Granted, no evidence of life in said oceans, including microbes, has been discovered, rendering the presence of crude oil on (or rather in) Mars highly unlikely.
But yeah, it was a dumb joke.
I know it's a joke but do you have any clue how oil is created :D[/quote]
The current sentiment is that Mars did have oceans at one time. Granted, no evidence of life in said oceans, including microbes, has been discovered, rendering the presence of crude oil on (or rather in) Mars highly unlikely.
But yeah, it was a dumb joke.