Quote from: Gatortag on February 01, 2017, 06:45:39 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on February 01, 2017, 05:01:02 PM

Quote from: Gatortag on February 01, 2017, 04:00:58 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on February 01, 2017, 03:55:03 PM

I actively hope that it never happens.

Why?

There's no point.

Sure there is. We could mine other planets, asteroids, moons. Discover new things. Maybe find life. And the future of humans depends on colonizing other planets.

As for the time it takes to travel to other places in response to the other post. We could always hope for a breakthrough. Like near or FTL travel or collapsing space time around you. Crazy how that all works with time dilation and all. Think I read if someone traveled at light speed for 1 year 10 years would pass for us here. But what if for example we're communicating over video chat? Seems like a paradox.

If you're going to bet all your hopes on being able to break the laws of physics, then there's really no point having a discussion.

For time dilation to kick in with noticeable effects you'd need to be travelling around 10%C.

Lightspeed is unatainable because to get anything that has more than zero mass to that velocity you would need literally infinite energy. To get anywhere near velocities measured in percentages of C you'd need the kind of tech you see in science fiction.

I hate to break it to you but science fiction is called science fiction for a reason.

You can't crush the dream! I read Lightspeed travel is theoretically possible. So is FTL. Such as The Alcubier  Drive or "unusually distorted space time". Their words. All theoretical of course. You never know what we'll find out. Look at Quantum mechanics saying it's like the universe is written in code with strings. And the tiny atoms or whatever it was only existing if being observed. We just don't know much yet. But who knows what the future could bring.

Luciana is right though. The Soace Program is in a pretty woeful state of affairswhich sucks so much considering the plans and designs in the 70s.

I would go so far as to say the Space Shuttle (as it was executed, not what it was supposed to be) seriously hampered our progress as a space fairing civilization.
Seriously if you go back and look at what they originally planned it was so much better than what it turned out to be.