Travelling Light Year Distances

makc · Post by **makc** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:26 pm

infinity88 wrote:If you were going the speed of light you'd get there instantly from your point of view. How much faster do you want to get there? Sheesh.

what about your wife point of view? I would like still to be able to sleep with my wife, if I will (ever) fly to the nearest star. dozens of years that it will take from her point of view, will make me attracted to my daughter instead

Empeda2 · Post by **Empeda2** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:36 pm

makc wrote: what about your wife point of view? I would like still to be able to sleep with my wife, if I will (ever) fly to the nearest star. dozens of years that it will take from her point of view, will make me attracted to my daughter instead

Whatever turns you on Makc....

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:46 pm

Orca wrote:
We haven't left our own magnetosphere, and you guys are talking about inter-stellar and even inter-galactic travel as if you were planning a trip to Hawaii.

Everything great has to begin with a discussion or else no one knows where to go.

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:42 pm

BMAONE23 wrote:
Orca wrote:
We haven't left our own magnetosphere, and you guys are talking about inter-stellar and even inter-galactic travel as if you were planning a trip to Hawaii.

Everything great has to begin with a discussion or else no one knows where to go.

A trip to Mars...let alone Jupiter...wouldn't be great?

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:49 pm

A trip anywhere might be good, but as for "Great", aside from being physically able to stand and observe first hand on another local planet or moon (which would be great given our current advances), being able to travel to other solar systems would be truly great. Lets face it, we probably won't find any other intelligent lifeforms in our own solar system apart from ourselves (assuming we are intelligent).

S. Bilderback · Post by **S. Bilderback** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:44 am

I'm working on turning myself into exotic muons and bosons, then I could be everywhere all at the same times!!!!!

makc · Post by **makc** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:48 am

A-ha! You're the one who will invent Infinite Improbability Engine!

craterchains · Post by **craterchains** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:29 am

Must go much faster than light speed, actually I doubt that would be even a good
indicator of the necessary speeds to gain reasonable intergalactic travel.

makc · Post by **makc** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:38 pm

craterchains wrote:Must go much faster...

S. Bilderback wrote:...then I could be everywhere all at the same times!!!!!

so how faster could it be?

Douglas Adams wrote:it is perfectly possible to do impossible things as long as you also do equally impossible things in the opposite direction. Since it's impossible to be sure which direction is the opposite direction when you pass through every point in the universe simultaneously, the effects can be anything between tedious rocks moving tediously to one tedious side and complete universal annihilation.

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:35 pm

craterchains wrote:Must go much faster than light speed, actually I doubt that would be even a good
indicator of the necessary speeds to gain reasonable intergalactic travel.

Douglas Adams wrote:Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Empeda2 · Post by **Empeda2** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:15 pm

He also wrote:

The one thing that respectable physicists hate is a smartass....

FieryIce · Post by **FieryIce** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:37 pm

Interesting, Douglas Adams was widely revered in science fiction and fantasy circles ... was a cult British comic radio dramatist, musician and author.
So your quoting him means what?

makc · Post by **makc** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:10 pm

FieryIce wrote:So your quoting him means what?

It means we still have a sense of humor.

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:51 am

makc wrote:
FieryIce wrote:So your quoting him means what?
It means we still have a sense of humor.

Here here. 8)

harry · Post by **harry** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:25 am

I do not understand

Please explain.

makc · Post by **makc** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:34 am

Nah, it would take way too long.
Get a title, "Hitchhiker's Guide to a Galaxy", and read it a bit.

Empeda2 · Post by **Empeda2** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:42 pm

Definitely - I think that one book explains more about how the universe works than every textbook I have ever studied combined......

S. Bilderback · Post by **S. Bilderback** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:49 pm

No, don't read it, we are all doomed anyway, what's the point, My powersource will be drained before I finish anyway.

I adore that robot!

makc · Post by **makc** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:36 pm

I wonder if it was explained there somewhere, why women are affraid of mice and men aren't.

devany · Post by **devany** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:54 pm

songwriterz wrote:If this is true then how can we ever hope to explore our own galaxy, much less cross the interstellar gulfs?

The problem is not the the light barrier, it is the time barrier.

Arguably, we're close now (ie. ~100 years) to being able to build a ship that could travel the galaxy indefinitely, albeit very slowly.

What we have to do is figure out how to live long enough for such a voyage to make any sense. Another poster said a similar thing-

Storm_norm wrote:If we are going to travel out of our galaxy and explore the galaxy then its not going to happen with our current "state of consciousness".

It'll be easier to engineer the body to last for one thousand years than to engineer a ship capable of travelling at anything close to light speed.

Regards

harry · Post by **harry** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:57 am

Maybe to build a colony of ships, each space being able to recycle 100 %.
The space ship will need to be an earth ship big enough to last for millions of years.

Send a million ships in a million directions.

Just like an oyster, send out 100,000 of eggs for a just a few to survive.

The journey may have a none return trip.

The energy pack will require to last for many many millions of years.

Maybe just a dream

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:42 pm

There was an episode of Star Trek (TNG, or Voyager) that delt with this idea. The ship was refered to as a "Generational Ship". An interesting idea though.

S. Bilderback · Post by **S. Bilderback** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:57 pm

The original Star Trek had an episode where a giant asteroid was hollowed out and had carried about 1,000 occupants for 100's of generations. (They didn't know they were in one).

harry · Post by **harry** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:28 am

Now I have to see Star Trak

S. Bilderback · Post by **S. Bilderback** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:06 am

Just think, if you had a long-range Star Trek transporter, it would take all day to get to Saturn and back. Nine years round trip to Alpha C. (Earth time), there's got to be a better way!

Starship Asterisk*

Travelling Light Year Distances

Travelling Light Year Distances - Time is the problem