Project Longshot would carry a separate 300kW power plant for the shipboard systems, and reach 30,000,000 mph. So a hundred years. We haven't sent any probes out to explore other star systems, voyager et all were for exploring our star system. It's technically possible for sure.
When will we reach the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, another star and another galaxy...
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Project Longshot would carry a separate 300kW power plant for the shipboard systems, and reach 30,000,000 mph. So a hundred years. We haven't sent any probes out to explore other star systems, voyager et all were for exploring our star system. It's technically possible for sure.
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Anyway this is all based out of religious texts, so i guess god did it anyway
.On topic bit: hopefully soon
. I would love to see humanity set foot on mars in my lifetime.Agreed on the first point. My bad. Lets call it 25,500 years then
On the second point I was assuming the closest edge to us.
hopefully though voyagers power will last long enough to send us a lot of information about what happens as you pass out of the solar sytem and though the boundary.
Agreed on the first point. My bad. Lets call it 25,500 years then
On the second point I was assuming the closest edge to us.
But it wouldn't be 25,500 years. See my other post with the screen shot explaining it.
That would be a bonus, well beyond the mission parameters. Pretty sure we could launch something simple and relatively cheap with a solar sail that would get out of the solar system before voyager did if we thought there was that much to learn.
I'd suspect it's very cold, and very empty outside the Solar System with big blasts of radiation from local Pulsars and such.
AcidHell2 said “But it wouldn't be 25,500 years. See my other post with the screen shot explaining it.”
It would be from the prospective of the people on Earth. By the time you reach the destination Earth any everyone would be 25,500 years older. Sure you might not have aged 25,500’s years but effectively you have lost 25,500 years.
It’s kind of like taking a trip that appears to take 1 week. But on the outside 50years pass for everyone else. Sure only 1 week passed for you, but all your loved ones and everyone you know died of old age or got very old.
EDIT: Or to put it another way, if you took the trip to the edge and back to Earth you would find 50,000 years of history has gone by.
It would be from the prospective of the people on Earth. By the time you reach the destination Earth any everyone would be 25,500 years older. Sure you might not have aged 25,500’s years but effectively you have lost 25,500 years.
It’s kind of like taking a trip that appears to take 1 week. But on the outside 50years pass for everyone else. Sure only 1 week passed for you, but all your loved ones and everyone you know died of old age or got very old.
EDIT: Or to put it another way, if you took the trip to the edge and back to Earth you would find 50,000 years of history has gone by.
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what could be a problem though is during those 25k years they advance technology to the point they find a way around the problem and when you get there ready to set up the first ever colony of man, it's already a 10,000 year old colony with billions of people
but it is a problem for probes and scientific exploration, waiting 5 years after they get there for data or 10 years to give a "pan down" command and to get the image back
To Ganymede and Titan,
Yes Sir, I been around,
But there ain't no place,
In the whole of space,
Like that good ol' Titan town.
Oh, Lunar City Seven,
You're my idea of heaven,
Out of ten you score eleven,
You good ol' Titan town.
Yes Sir, I been around,
But there ain't no place,
In the whole of space,
Like that good ol' Titan town.
Oh, Lunar City Seven,
You're my idea of heaven,
Out of ten you score eleven,
You good ol' Titan town.
You know you shouldn't give numpties who think the lunar landings were fake a single moment of your time! 2 minutes on google would answer every conspiracy raised about the matter.
The people who endorse such thinking are in reality either wanting attention or help...
How can this kind of opinion still be possessed by people? I don't understand it....
How do you suppose we got stuff into orbit? Go and watch the highlights of the Space Shuttle mission to the ISS that is happening RIGHT NOW, if you watch those videos thinking they're fake then clearly you have issues. Getting into orbit is the hardest part, you can buy a telescope and look at the ISS as it orbits overhead from your garden!!. Or have lizard men put a tiny ISS pictures in all telescopes?
Getting to the Moon is easy in comparison
With regards to the OP:
- A human lands on the Moon again: Depends upon the validation of profitable resources on the Moon. If that happens, then 2020. If not, probably never again.
- A human lands on Mars: Would have been within 20 years if the NASA project hadn't been scrapped. Realistically now 30 to 40 years
- A human reaches Jupiter: After Mars it's gets difficult. Maybe within 100 years
- A probe or human reaches another star: New propulsion technology has a long way to go and needs money no one has at the moment. 3.3% of Lightspeed will still take 120 years or more to reach Alpha Centuri
- A probe or human reaches another galaxy: Quite a long way. Laws of Physics get in the way to do it on a realistic time scale
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No - travelling 25,000 years at 99% the speed of light would take 1% longer than 25,000 (not 99% of 25,000) years from the point of view of the observers back on earth. The people travelling at 99% the speed of light would experience a shorter duration, though I get about 3,500 years - to do the trip in 80 years as suggested requires about 99.9995% of the speed of light!
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Moon - chemical propulsion - 10 years
Mars - nuclear fission ion engines - 30 years
Jupiter - nuclear fusion ion engines - 50 years
Another star - antimatter - 80 years
Another galaxy - dark matter - 100 years
Mars - nuclear fission ion engines - 30 years
Jupiter - nuclear fusion ion engines - 50 years
Another star - antimatter - 80 years
Another galaxy - dark matter - 100 years
I would like to think we landed on the moon but still aren’t a 100%. Just my main reason is why has it taken us so long to get back..... and no the recession wasn’t the issue
I guess once we have a telescope that can see the surface crystal clear we should be able to see the landing sites.... even if that’s possible might be a silly question.
Tin hat time
YOU, with the right equipment, can FIRE A LASER at the specific place a MAN left a reflector ON THE MOON and it can be recorded bouncing back.
It is scientific proof that man went to the moon.
honestly, teenagers.
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This was on Stephen Hawkins universe.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblo...avel-instruction-kit-todays-most-popular.html
what could be a problem though is during those 25k years they advance technology to the point they find a way around the problem and when you get there ready to set up the first ever colony of man, it's already a 10,000 year old colony with billions of people
LOL - you would hope they'd have the courtesy to pick the poor guy up on the way and give him a lift!
When (OK - if
) we have the super-duper FTL tech I wonder if we'll buzz around and collect all our old probes and stick them in museums? We could replace them with replicas maintaining the original trajectories to avoid upsetting the old folk who think we should leave them alone .