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| 11 Jul 2015 02:58 AM |
| do you think this might be possible in the near future? |
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| 11 Jul 2015 02:58 AM |
| we're already going to send people there. |
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| 11 Jul 2015 02:59 AM |
| who cares ill be dead by then sucks for me |
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| 11 Jul 2015 02:59 AM |
| yeah though it would be pretty cool to observe the oort cloud since its never actually been directly observed |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:00 AM |
the mars one mission says yes
the future mars two mission says everyone died but we still think yes
mars three says we killed about 50 people by now but we still want to crash people into mars |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:00 AM |
| Although there are already schemes to go, I dont think we'll be going there until 2040 |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:00 AM |
| and interstellar space explorations would be pretty cool |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:01 AM |
oh boy interstellar would be hard tho travelling at the speed of light it would take 4 years to get to the nearest star and we are FAAAAAAR from the speed of light |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:07 AM |
| yeah and according to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:10 AM |
Absolutely. NASA itself is already planning a manned launch to Mars in the very near future. The team is already assembled, but the launch date is pretty far away (but not out of my lifetime)
As for Mars One... I'm not so sure they have the money or the technology to survive there. I wish best of luck to them.
However new technology in relation to fusion engines could get us there in a mere 30 days when the time is right. All that's left is to build it.
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:20 AM |
"yeah and according to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light"
Sadly this is true. BUT! Warp drives (or Alcubierre drives as per who coined the concept) provide a possible loophole.
Instead of travelling faster than the speed of light, we warp the space around us. This results in a speedy bubble that can "move" up to 10x the speed of light.
The math in the theory is sound, but it relies on negative energy, something we hope to learn more about in the future.
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:32 AM |
@froggo
the speed of light isn't necessarily the limit you could go faster but it would be extremely hard the only recorded thing that went faster was the WOW! signal |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:34 AM |
| whoa, warping would actually be the coolest thing ever, like imagine going from one place to the other in an instant |
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| 11 Jul 2015 03:35 AM |
| You do realise there is a national socialist community on Mars, don't you? |
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| 11 Jul 2015 01:15 PM |
Wormholes may be an interesting loophole as well.
You learned that the shortest route between two points is a straight line.
BUT! that's not true if you are allowed to stretch through higher dimensional space.
Take a piece of paper for example. We have two points on either end. Instead of going from point A to point B directly, we can stretch the paper through 3d space and have the points meet. From there, the route is significantly shorter. Folding paper is a 2d analogy. we need a 3d one. This isn't so easy because it's hard for us to imagine 4d space. It's an interesting concept though.
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