Travel To Another Planet

Its the human experience :-D

 

That would be better, but I like the natural world too much.

 

so do i. but those who want to go, should go, even if it takes half their life to get there, and the other half to get back to tell us about it.
i doubt we'd all be able to go in my lifetime. for one person and what it takes to keep them alive, to leave our, or any planet's gravity well,
takes the work and resources of a large part of their planet's population, even as huge as ours is.

but seeing the natural world of other worlds, those orbiting other stars that have water in all three phases and those possibly forests and critters,
maybe even people who don't look anything like us, this i would like to see also.

but just not the way, when european empires invaded the western hemisphere of earth less then a thousand years ago.
destroying civilizations that had flourished for tens of thousands.

because the greed and ego of those empires didn't want anyone to be able even to imagine civilization could flourish without superior arms, slavery, or currency.

 

no.... because of all the choices so far

show no signs of life/habitual environments

 

It would take 3 months to get to Mars and it could happen in the 2020's. Once on Mars you'd mainly be spending time in tunnels to avoid radiation exposure.
Check out 19:00.

 

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but mars is a desert, even if it might still have a few microbes hiding in some ice beneath its surface. not exactly an exciting tourist destination.

visiting a world likely to have forests and anything bigger then a cold germ, will almost certainly require travel to worlds orbiting other stars then our own.
the nearest of these, if we could travel that fast, takes even light ten years or more to get there, and another ten to get back.

the only thing we are currently capable of propelling faster then a tenth of that, are subatomic clusters of electrons in a particle accelerator.

of course the current state is never an eternal standard.

small "c" is of course not actually the speed of anything. it is the mathematical constant of the relationship between mass and energy.
it is not entirely inconceivable, that the light barrier could be broken or found some shortcut around.

as of yet, our own world and species has had no luck in finding one.

now i have nothing against deserts. they are likely a fine place to build a house, and without too many nearby neighbors.
provided they have a breathable atmostphere. mars has an atmosphere, but not a breathable one.

and that's the other, really as big or bigger problem then transportation.
even a world orbiting another star with forests and people living on it and everything,
the odds do not really favor the atomosphere they breathe on it,
being one we could breathe also.

thus any life bearing world we visit, or people evolved on it visit ours,
will still have to wear some sort of breathing aparatus,
to walk around, on each other's planet.

this would still be worth it. maybe swapping bodies with someone there who'd like to visit here.
we just need to find some way of getting there, some place more interesting then the other rocks in our own solar system,
that won't take as long or longer, then we are able to live, and some way to make it less expensive,
to take along everything we need in order to continue living.