Best race for space?

Hello,

for some reason I think the sun becoming a red giant star and swallowing us is not going to kill us. I think we are already past if the sun leaves its calm hydrogen burning phase .

There are so many detail problems to solve. Energy, as you mentioned, is only one. Alpha Centauri, the nearest sun (except of our own of course), is only 4 lightyears away. It took forever to get there and it takes unbelievable amounts of energy to get there. I don't say it's wrong to do research in that direction. But in my opinion we should spend more resources in figuring out how we can survive the next say 300 or 500 years.

Regards
Gyro

 

i was so stoned last night reading this. it took me like 15 minutes to figure out what "best race for space" meant

 

Hello,

and to what conclusion did you come?

Regards
Gyro

PS: I wonder nobody has mentioned the venusian ladies with three boobs yet.

 

You're thinking too literally. To easily and quickly travel through the cosmos, you travel not through space, but around space. The only problem is that this would take the power of a small star to achieve, but it would be much easier than spending hundreds of years and several generations inside of a spacecraft.

 

Hello,

worm holes and such? Hopefully that are not only mathematically solutions to some equations. BTW, I've developed a beaming machine like the one they have in star trek. Well, I am close to get it running. Only trouble is to get your body back in one piece, after I switched on energy .

Regards
Gyro

 

I agree most of our resources should be devoted to solving more immediate problems but I'd like to have long term goals in mind to help adjust our aim.

It doesn't really require enormous amounts of energy to get there, just sustainability. An object in motion stays in motion. Our path to Alpha Centauri is vacuous; we needn't worry about air resistance or gravity dragging us down. This goes back to the original post. With the right group of people, the resources required to make the trip might be miniscule.

 

Ah wormholes yes. Well, acknowledging that as a possibility ... I do, but considering the science surrounding that idea isn't even in its infancy yet, I'm more focused on stuff that we can start to picture in our heads. Like ... how will we communicate with each other when we're light years apart from each other? It will be like the days of the Pony Express. Messages will take days, months, years to reach different settlements. If we tried to send a message to the sun right now, at the speed of light, it would take about eight minutes. Crayzay!

If you guys have any info on wormholes that isn't blatant speculation I'm totally into it.

 

Hello,

it's a good thing to have such goals. Additionally we need big goals like the moon landing in the sixties. That give people something they can look forward to and such goals are a burst for the economy.

You are right. But how long does the journey take then? One could make 4 lightyears in, well, 4 years if one travels at the speed of light. It will take 400 years if one travels constantly with 1 per cent of light speed. That are breathtaking 10800000 km per hour. What to do with the crew in that years? Freeze them? Let them reproduce themselves?

Regards
Gyro

 

I was definitely thinking reproduce at first. Freezing is undoubtedly a better option. Though not nearly as fun.

 

Hi,

we need to find some HF women that are fascinated by space travel and together we can do great things .

Regards
Gyro

 

I'll be in space before all of yas...

I'm turning my truck into a rocket

 

Hello,

yeah, that is the right attitude. But beware of the radar traps .

Regards
Gyro

 

race is a myth. and you won't get there any sooner by being in a hurry either.

 

Man that's an old point of view... I don't like it = /

 

Dakar.

 

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