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re: Colonizing Mars- really what’s the point?
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:02 pm to Scruffy
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:02 pm to Scruffy
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If we don’t figure out how to expand and proliferate amongst the stars we will likely destroy ourselves.
You do realize that these stars are trillions of miles away and that even the most optimistic outlook on space travel and physics would put the travel time at somewhere between 50,000 - 100,000 years.
Real life ain't like a science fiction movie.
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Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:08 pm to AUFANATL
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You do realize that these stars are trillions of miles away and that even the most optimistic outlook on space travel and physics would put the travel time at somewhere between 50,000 - 100,000 years.
Yes, I am aware of that.
Despite the phrase used, the point is human expansion beyond earth.
Eventually the building of colonies on other planets within our solar system.
The moon
Mars
Figuring out how to use the resources outside of our planet.
The groundwork has to start somewhere.
This idea that it is too far in the future, so why should we even bother, is crap.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:16 pm to AUFANATL
quote:We will surely need spaceships that can support life indefinitely too. So what? There are lots of problems to solve, what's wrong with working on the ones we can right now? If no one gets started then it will never happen.
You do realize that these stars are trillions of miles away and that even the most optimistic outlook on space travel and physics would put the travel time at somewhere between 50,000 - 100,000 years.
Real life ain't like a science fiction movie.
Maybe we will figure out suspended animation. Maybe we will just have to live life as normally as possible on a ship for many generations. Whatever the case, it seems likely that before the first ship we send arrives at its destination, we will have improved technology here on earth and later launches can catch up to the first. Or, pass it by and start terraforming the destination before they arrive.
Or maybe they will all go crazy and die. That happens to explorers sometimes.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:56 pm to AUFANATL
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You do realize that these stars are trillions of miles away and that even the most optimistic outlook on space travel and physics would put the travel time at somewhere between 50,000 - 100,000 years.
Estimates for one version of Project Orion (a nuclear powered spacecraft looked at in the 60’s) estimated travel time to Alpha Centauri in ~500 years. With advances in the next few hundred years (propulsion, cryogenics) who knows what’s posssible.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 11:58 pm to AUFANATL
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Real life ain't like a science fiction movie
Funny you say that.
What were science fiction movies like 80 years ago?
40?
Anything in those movies come true?
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