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Funny I just did a project on light years

1 light years is equal to 6,000,000,000,000,000 miles or 9,000,000,000,000,000Km

So if you are math smart 6trillion times 42 would equal 2,5200000000000^17

Km now 9trillion times 42 equals 3.7200000000000^17 (that is a really huge distance)

So if the human race can build some thing in the next 50 years that can with stand going that distance that would be really cool

That's all I have to say thank for reading

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I think it is possible. It will work with the science of using atoms in space to propel ourselves (a rocket or something) at the planet with the designated math done. Always finding new ways of doing stuff. Such as apple is currently trying to make a terabyte out of just using a small space of air itself (the atoms) and light to store data. Or light that has a gravitational pull (Pulls stuff towards it). If this is possible, we can probably do that. Worm hole or some sort may be helpful. Also, it may be passed down through the generations of NASA, might take millions of years, but eventually one day, we might be able to get to it. Might not have people on-board, but it is still a step towards something new.
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well. i thing thats a good news for human, this earth is getting narrow can you feel?
did you believe there is an alien out there? mhmmm.....but i believe about that, this galaxy is very very big.
and also 21-12-2012 there is planet, called planet X want to crash an earth. but i dont believe that :/
Originally Posted by Dose View Post
But the ship in Wall-E is so "luxurious", if we had that then we wouldn't want to stop living such a good life either but we don't have enough resources to make something like that so our primal instinct is to strive for survival and the only way to do that is to colonize a new planet.

If the ship gets wrecked, it means that we fail. The humans on Earth would already be dead because there would be lots of chaos and mayhem among the billions of humans that couldn't go on the ship.


Actually, the ship in Wall-E is way too luxurious. Sure, we'll be living the good life, but we'll gradually be turning our race into sumo wrestlers. But unlike there movie, I'm sure that if this were real, there would also be lots of people who are still fit, or at least not fat, unlike in the Axiom ship where all the humans look almost the same.

And it's also possible that the ones left behind would go into World War 3(or 4 if a WW3 started the disaster in the first place) and battle to the death, but what if they could once again do always do: Innovate! They can use the left- over technology or something.

By the way, Dose, dang man your thread has gotten real popular XD
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Originally Posted by ImmortalCow View Post
> Implying you can't travel 42 light years at a rate slower than that of light
> Implying people who build a ship meant to travel 42 light years wouldn't have the foresight to bring some food and water with them
> Implying people don't live longer than 42 years in the first place
> Implying everyone on the ship would have to be related
> Implying there's no such thing as sperm/egg banks/in vitro etc
> Implying all kinds of crazy shit that make no sense.

Why not just travel there slower than the speed of light, use a closed system to maintain water, use a greenhouse to grow food and convert CO2 back to O2, bring enough fertiliser or use molecular nets to collect atoms along the way..?

See, that wasn't so hard since I decided to think instead of derp around.

The fastest manmade object ever made is the spacecraft Helios 2, which reaches a maximum speed of 150,000 mph. This was ONLY achieved through the use of the sun's gravity to slingshot to normally unattainable speeds.
The speed of light is 670,616,629 mph.

Even with speeds we can't actually reach traveling in a straight line, we can only achieve 1/4470 of the speed of light. It would take us 187772 years to travel a distance of 42 lightyears.

You expect a spacecraft and its inhabitants to endure over 3.5x longer than homo sapiens has even existed. Your calculations are off by so many orders of magnitude that I'm honestly shocked you believed them yourself.
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Originally Posted by Boredpayne View Post
The fastest manmade object ever made is the spacecraft Helios 2, which reaches a maximum speed of 150,000 mph. This was ONLY achieved through the use of the sun's gravity to slingshot to normally unattainable speeds.
The speed of light is 670,616,629 mph.

Even with speeds we can't actually reach traveling in a straight line, we can only achieve 1/4470 of the speed of light. It would take us 187772 years to travel a distance of 42 lightyears.

You expect a spacecraft and its inhabitants to endure over 3.5x longer than homo sapiens has even existed. Your calculations are off by so many orders of magnitude that I'm honestly shocked you believed them yourself.

> quoting that post instead of my other post
> thinking humans couldn't survive 187772 years
> clearly doesn't know what "stasis" means in this context
> implying suspended animation isn't/will never be possible
> implying it is necessary for humans to drive the ship and not have it computer controlled
> probably implying that space will wear away a spaceship despite a distinct sparse amount of molecules to do this wearing.
Micro mediorites would do this wear and tear, the ISS had to install several plates just to be protected from the constant bombardment of these little tiny bits of space rock.
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Originally Posted by ManlyPotato View Post
Micro mediorites would do this wear and tear, the ISS had to install several plates just to be protected from the constant bombardment of these little tiny bits of space rock.

There are a lot more debris in the orbit of Earth.
On topic, I think it is possible. I mean, worst case scenario, we are nearing a technology cap. What prevents us from building a mini Earth space ship ? Or using an Asteroid as a vessel ? Or sending an empty ship there, then creating humans once there ?
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Eh, well we have about a Billion years or so to do it before the earth starts getting a bit hot so we have tons of time.
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