Space : The Final Frontier.

Von Smallhausen

Von Smallhausen

Von Smallhausen

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I read a lot of sci-fi and often wonder how far we will go.

It took 66 years from the first flight to Man walking on the moon and the next step is the Solar System but what about interstellar space ?

Read the Colnial Marines Technical Manual and the Sulaco is powered by a fusion reactor for sub light speed and a tachyon shunt hyperdrive for interstellar travel where the ship is mirrored in a state comprised of tachyons which allows the ship to travel over 280 times the speed of light and as long as the crew are in hypersleep then time isn't distorted.

Star Wars craft uses hyperspace to travel between the stars.

Star Trek craft uses warp drive to fold space.

All the product of imagination I know but does anyone actually believe that Humans alone will perfect such technology to reach other systems ? How long do you think it will take ? Is it impossible ?

Thoughts ?
 
According to the limits of our current scientific knowledge it's impossible, but judging from dramatic breakthroughs that have been made in the past we should never discount the impossible.

Doubt we'll live to see it, sadly, but I hope the future will remember the sci-fi writers of the C20th as the forward-looking visionaries that made us all think it might be possible.
 
To be honest, I dont think we ever will.

Just look at the current space programs around the world, every year their budgets are being lowered. Just look at how long its been since we did a manned mission to basically anywhere (other than low orbit).

Along with the sheer financial aspect of the research, development and actual building/launching of the hardware, I also think that frankly we are far more likely to simply blow each other to smithereens long before we manage to reach the levels of interstellar travel.
 
Having bases and travelling in our solar system will be possible, but I think I doubt we'll ever have intersteller travel, at least not for a few thousand years.
 
Space travel using kinetic energy is not really practical. More important developments will be in Time and Dimensional Travel, which will enable travel with low energy requirements.

Rob H
 
This is worth a read. Basically he explains how even colonising Mars would be a monumentally challenging thing to do, so you can completely discount the possibility of colonising the rest of the system any time soon, let alone other planetary systems.
 
To travel to the nearest star in any reasonable amount of time we'll need to do invent something very funky indeed.
 
All things are possible in time.

As for the method of traveling around the Big Black... Personally I'd go for the Event Horizon method. Folding space, seriously weird ship designs and the potential bonus of sending your sinister looking vessel in to crazy mind melting parallel universes.
 
For sheer eye-candy though, I'd go for the method of interstellar travel from 'Supernova'. The film was not received very well at all, even though it had a great cast, but the Nightingale 229's method of travel was pretty novel.
 
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