• Deep Space Exploration: Possible in Our Lifetimes?
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Technological advances are emerging at exponential rate. Do you think that we can make it to other systems and planets in at least part of our lifetimes? I would also like to see some intelligent life out there... Sometimes when I get thinking, it saddens me a bit that I won't be able to see some things like that, but what exactly do you think on this topic?
Possible? Yes. Likely? No.
To other systems? No. Not a chance. The time it would take to research equipment that would allow for such long distance travel, the time it would take to build such a vehicle, the time it would take to test said vehicle, and the time it would take to physically reach the other stars would be too great. I have no doubt we'll send humans to more planets in our solar system, but not to other stars in our lifetime.
Unless aliens land an share technology humans traveling beyond pluto is unlikely
Pretty sure we gotta spend every last drop of crude oil and.. money, to build something that could compete with the speed of fucking light particles. So deep space exploration depends on a lot of things, like the economy.. and work efficiency?
not in our lifetimes
No, Hell no. Maybe a couple 100 years from now at current tech progression, but with current tech and current political climate? Nay.
If we extent our life times then maybe.
I just want them to research the ability to put our brains in robots. One can dream.
We'll be lucky if we get back to the moon in our lifetime.
Considering how Voyager 1 is [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/07/voyager-1-nasa-probe-about-to-leave-solar-system_n_1134165.html?ref=uk-tech]just a few months away from exiting the solar system[/url] I would have to say that unless you die sometime in the very near future, you will definitely be alive when deep space exploration begins. Manned exploration, I believe, is extremely unlikely to occur within the next hundred years (although I would love to be wrong). However, I am optimistic that we'll see a manned mission to another body within our solar system at some point.
Then again who knows what the year 5000 brings?
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;33665066]Then again who knows what the year 5000 brings?[/QUOTE] Considering the progress in the last 5000 years, I wouldn't even try predicting anything about it.
[QUOTE=Snuffy;33664857]Considering how Voyager 1 is [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/07/voyager-1-nasa-probe-about-to-leave-solar-system_n_1134165.html?ref=uk-tech]just a few months away from exiting the solar system[/url] I would have to say that unless you die sometime in the very near future, you will definitely be alive when deep space exploration begins. Manned exploration, I believe, is extremely unlikely to occur within the next hundred years (although I would love to be wrong). However, I am optimistic that we'll see a manned mission to another body within our solar system at some point.[/QUOTE] If by manned exploration you mean us bring astronauts to the moon or any other planet you're crazy to say it will be unlikely to happen . Just think of the growth from 1980-2011. You seriously believe there won't be any manned voyages in the next 100 years?
I'd like to think so but I'm not sure. Just look at the huge leaps we've taken in the past 80 years.
The possibilities of stumbling upon some sort of loophole in physics that permits quick(ish) travel to other stars could still be there, but my guess is that the next 50 years may be less "across the void" than one would hope, more like Moonbase and asteroid mining if we're lucky. Sure if we're REALLY lucky we could discover some form of "warp travel" or "hyperspace" whatever in a matter of decades, but it's more likely that we'll end up mining the Belt for the next coupla centuries to supply minerals to Earth and the Colonies.
I have a feeling our grandchildren will be able to visit the moon, and when we are in our late 80's, they might be thinking about colonizing the moon. I don't think we will be getting to different systems anytime soon.
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