When will we reach the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, another star and another galaxy...

mlbtheshow said:
Im no expert but I thought Jupiter was just a ball of gas? Or is that another one of them, maybe Uranus... or maybe mine :D

Serious though, isnt Jupiter just a mass of gasses or something? Or is it the one with the circle around it?
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You are correct Jupiter is just a gas giant
 
NeilFawcett said:
Go on, put your scifi heads on and predict how many years till:-
- A human lands on the Moon again
- A human lands on Mars
- A human reaches Jupiter (Arthur C Clarke said we'd already be there :))
- A probe or human reaches another star
- A probe or human reaches another galaxy
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1 - will never go to the moon unless we have a reason to again.

2- Will likely never go to mars due to the randomness of a solar flash. Unless we learn how to predict them months in advance no human will be put in the way of one because it will dehydrate his body rapidly and he will never make it back onto the shuttle, let alone home. Not to mention the stupid temperatures on Mars of either freezing cold or boiling hot due to having no real atmosphere that can trap the heat. (If i'm remembering correctly, I did a physics module at uni on how stars work and it covered some planets as well but it's a bit hazy and I cba to read up about it again.).

Interestingly the debate is up for if life forms have existed on mars. But if so this was before it lost it's atmosphere and when it was in a further out orbit.

On a complete side note, one of the more logical explanations for the earth and moon at the moment are in fact an impact with a mars shaped object which splinted a large planet apart, this would explain why the moon does not have a core structure like planets. It would also explain how we formed our rich iron core. Though I don't think it's what brought life.

3- Never. It's a gas planet with extreme storms. No human can survive Jupiter.

4-Never. Earth will be destroyed by some man made or natural event before we have the technology or time to reach another star system.

5- See above.
 
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To get the another start it will most likely take around 673.7 years 1 hour 27 mins and 88 seconds I believe.
 
8igdave said:
1 - will never go to the moon unless we have a reason to again.

2- Will likely never go to mars due to the randomness of a solar flash. Unless we learn how to predict them months in advance no human will be put in the way of one because it will dehydrate his body rapidly and he will never make it back onto the shuttle, let alone home. Not to mention the stupid temperatures on Mars of either freezing cold or boiling hot (If i'm remembering correctly, I did a physics module at uni on how stars work and it covered some planets as well but it's a bit hazy and I cba to read up about it again.).

3- Never. It's a gas planet with extreme storms. No human can survive Jupiter.

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1 there's several reasons to go to the moon, he3 being one. If spacecraft construction, fuel production from moon water being another.

2 - you just build a bunker underground sun flares are spotted hours or even days in advance, more than enough time to protect yourself

3- he said reach, not land on.
 
I like to think that our rate of technological advancement is increasing, primarily due to computers and the theoretical work that allows. As such it is at least possible that we will go to other stars/galaxies in the not so distant future.

Although the more cynical are indeed right, there is an equally (if not greater) chance that we will destroy ourselves long before such advances become possible..... but as easy as it is to be cynical about our chances of survival I think history has taught us one overriding thing....humans are hard to kill. We survive, if its not possible we adapt ourselves or our environment to make it possible. With that in mind the way we are destroying earth I would say the chances of us attempting to go elsewhere with very real enthusiam (i.e. a lot of capital investment) are getting higher by the day.

And with a lot of money invested we can do amazing things very quickly! Look no further than how quickly private companies have jumped into the breach left by the shuttles being decommissioned.
 
AcidHell2 said:
1 there's several reasons to go to the moon, he3 being one. If spacecraft construction, fuel production from moon water being another.

2 - you just build a bunker underground sun flares are spotted hours or even days in advance, more than enough time to protect yourself

3- he said reach, not land on.
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Fuel production from moon water, now that is an interesting one. I suspect though it would be so expensive to get all this running that it's not a viable source for energy. I presume transportation costs are a wee bit expensive.

Build a bunker? How does one go about that exactly? Bearing in mind the ground is either several hundred degrees hot or far into the negatives. Not to mention the time required to build one. Also sun flares are still random. We cannot 100% predict them and it would be disastrous if one did hit. 100% fatality. Did you know that long ago there was a mass power cut somewhere (in america i think? maybe newyork) which was caused by a giant solar flare? I found that interesting anyway.

As for the reach thing, I missread then. I'm sure it isn't unfeaserble that man might reach jupiter though I think the time spent traveling alone makes it rather infeasible. Not to mention that I'm not sure how much data a crew could caputure over a probe when you weigh up the traveling problems vs the benefit.
 
What do you mean how do you do it? The fact it's hot or cold doesn't make any difference. You are aware that NASA is planning to send humans to mars, if the budget doesn't get completely cut.

Space exploration is expensive, but will get cheaper all the time. Much easier to mine and build on the moon with low grav, than in space. He3 also could be hugely needed and in abundance compared with earth.

You don't need to predict solar flares and we don't. You have a telescope pointed at the sun, like we have now. But set up for mars.
 
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In the end its a matter of money, we will go to mars and we will survive any solar flare...if and only if they spend the money on it...which means either competion (e.g. the chinese are gonna get there first...), necessity (we found oil on mars!!! :P) or simply imagination...the idea of standing on Mars really captures the imagination of people...which to be honest it does not right now....right now all people can think about is the price of petrol and how much bread costs.... :P
 
Nearly all of them have circley wirkley things if you include moony woonies as circley wirkley things.


Oh god I typed that :(
 
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