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more like 300 years or more, we would have to wait for it to get there and sent its pictures back, which takes about 42 years because lightyears.
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Do not bring that topic on here please. Only misinformed morons believed that theory.
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Bitch please who thinks the world is gonna end based on a calendar ending? It doesn't even end there only the 13th Baktun ended, then on the 19, and then there is a bigger one, and a bigger one etc. so no, we would never end on the 21st, just stupid. There, here's what a Baktun is.
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Originally Posted by ImmortalCow View Post
> 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.

I see that despite being off by 3 orders of magnitude, your viewpoint hasn't changed a bit. Seems like you may be overly committed to this stance.

I can understand expecting humans to survive in "suspended animation" for 3.5x longer than humanity has existed (even though the brain would die less than 1% of the way through the journey simply due to the way dna is made).
I can even understand an unmanned aircraft navigating through 42 light years of space (certainly foolproof enough to travel safely through/around galaxies, black holes, comets, asteroids and encounter no errors over 187,772 years of operation).

What I cannot possibly imagine is a spacecraft that can propel itself 42 light years of distance. What method of propulsion are you suggesting? Fuel? That much doesn't exist on Earth.
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If you guys haven't heard, there's about 5 planets that might be habitable that are 12 light years away, which is much more manageable. Still I don't think we'll even get out of our solar system in our life times. We hardly have enough fuel for everyone to drive a car, and we'd need a much more efficient energy source to get there in 50-100 years

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/...d-nearby-star/
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Lets not get ahead of ourselves here, we aren't even a type 1 civilization yet and we're talking about interstellar travel? This discussion is more or less equivalent Ancient Egyptians asking each other if they thought that man would ever be able to fly; we're thousands of years away from the ability to do so and it would be near impossible for us to comprehend how it is done.

Originally Posted by ImmortalCow View Post
> 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.

>seems to think that typing like this is somehow going to make him appear smarter
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Originally Posted by Boredpayne View Post
I see that despite being off by 3 orders of magnitude, your viewpoint hasn't changed a bit. Seems like you may be overly committed to this stance.

The technology already exists so there's no need to change due to a time constraint.
Originally Posted by Boredpayne View Post
I can understand expecting humans to survive in "suspended animation" for 3.5x longer than humanity has existed (even though the brain would die less than 1% of the way through the journey simply due to the way dna is made).

> (even though the brain would die less than 1% of the way through the journey simply due to the way dna is made).
Citation needed. How can suspended DNA decay?
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I can even understand an unmanned aircraft navigating through 42 light years of space (certainly foolproof enough to travel safely through/around galaxies, black holes, comets, asteroids and encounter no errors over 187,772 years of operation).

This wouldn't even be hard, you word it like it's a near impossible feat...
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What I cannot possibly imagine is a spacecraft that can propel itself 42 light years of distance. What method of propulsion are you suggesting? Fuel? That much doesn't exist on Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...aft_propulsion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecr..._reaction_mass

Buddy I don't mean to be rude, but how can you even contribute to this discussion without knowing what kind of technology we had 50 years ago? :S

The friction in space is very low, you don't need much to accelerate and maintain speed.

Originally Posted by Dr_Strangelove View Post
Lets not get ahead of ourselves here, we aren't even a type 1 civilization yet and we're talking about interstellar travel? This discussion is more or less equivalent Ancient Egyptians asking each other if they thought that man would ever be able to fly; we're thousands of years away from the ability to do so and it would be near impossible for us to comprehend how it is done.

>seems to think that typing like this is somehow going to make him appear smarter

> Seems to think that throwing around Kardashev scale and Ancient Egyptians somehow makes his point valid.
> Implying making predictions a thousand years in advance isn't possible.

Current technological levels make it possible to travel the distance, however it would take some time. Thus it is obvious that in the future this time is only going to go down.
You can look at curves of computational power etc and see the exponential increase, for anyone who can think it's obvious that it's just a matter of time before something is sent.
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The question is not whether we will ever reach 42 lightyears, because WE WILL(assuming we don't destroy ourselves or some natural disaster happens to wipe out all of us, but that is another topic) but the question is when. With current technology, it would be REALLY slow. I guess it would be acceptable if we'll do it 150-200 years from now. The spacecraft will be unmanned and use antimatter or other undiscovered source of fuel. It would reach speeds of 0.9c - 0.99c(90% - 99% the speed of light). Resources won't be a problem because by that time we will be already harvesting resources from other planets and asteroids.

Originally Posted by Boredpayne View Post
I can even understand an unmanned aircraft navigating through 42 light years of space (certainly foolproof enough to travel safely through/around galaxies, black holes, comets, asteroids and encounter no errors over 187,772 years of operation).

Galaxies? Black holes? Seriously? We won't be leaving the Milky Way Galaxy. 99% of the 42 light years that the spacecraft will be travelling will be just empty space because almost all of outer space is just, well, empty space.

And btw, this is a pretty cool website about future predictions http://futuretimeline.net/
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