Space Travel

[JohnDB]

There's several problems with space travel.aside from the strong radiation and corrosive, inhospitable environment.

And that is distance. It is very far to get anywhere....requiring some huge amounts of energy to travel anywhere.

So watch this guy explain relativity. (Very short)





Meaning.....we aren't going anywhere.

 

[Harry Dresden]

There's several problems with space travel.aside from the strong radiation and corrosive, inhospitable environment.

And that is distance. It is very far to get anywhere....requiring some huge amounts of energy to travel anywhere.

So watch this guy explain relativity. (Very short)





Meaning.....we aren't going anywhere.

so we will never advance and discover new ways to use the forces of nature to help us?...

 

[Anomalism]

Interesting, but in my arrogant ass opinion, short-sighted. We don't know what we don't know. There's too much left to discover. Too many answers we don't have yet.

If you had told people 200 years ago we would land a probe on a comet moving 37 thousand miles an hour they'd say that's impossible.

Maybe he's right, but you must consider the possibility that he's not. Maybe there's a way around this limitation that's beyond our imagination.

 

[Anomalism]

so we will never advance and discover new ways to use the forces of nature to help us?...

Scientists work from what we know. What we don't know is perhaps too ethereal to draw conclusions from. You're right though, in my opinion.

 

[Donald H]

Let's try this: Space travel is still not possible beyond earth orbit.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Scientists work from what we know. What we don't know is perhaps too ethereal to draw conclusions from. You're right though, in my opinion.

it was said that the guy who ran the US Patent office in 1899 said..."everything that can be invented has already been done"

 

[Anomalism]

it was said that the guy who ran the US Patent office in 1899 said..."everything that can be invented has already been done"

A ridiculous stance in hindsight.

 

[Donald H]

it was said that the guy who ran the US Patent office in 1899 said..."everything that can be invented has already been done"

I only became interested in the answers and so I watched a utube video on the question. I've brought that into this discussion because the comments were so surprising. Comments from believers were running about 1 in 30 or 40.

Mostly Americans by about 1 in 4 or 5 by foreigners.

No other country is claiming to be trying so we'll have to wait for America in 20??????.

Or when America recovers the lost technology?

 

[JohnDB]

Let's try this: Space travel is still not possible beyond earth orbit.

We can go beyond earth orbit. The Voyager space probe is proof of that. It actually has gone beyond our Solar System.

Mars probes bringing back images of Mars landscapes and the night sky from Mars is also rather interesting as well.

But traveling any distance of near light speed for the travelers is short. But for us here on Earth? It will never happen. To us, if we put a ship into space capable of sub light speed but a significant portion of light speed....say 20% or so....
The occupants of the ship would survive the timeline but we would age rapidly by comparison and all would die of old age before they returned to tell us what they found.

And we would have discovered new technologies in the meantime.
(If we can keep from blowing ourselves up in the meantime)

Gotta figure that with each new "household" technology we develop people can abuse and turn into devastating new devices with the intent to harm others in some fashion.

Even a simple microwave oven can be turned into an EMP device or EW device of some sort. Nevermind what "Bubba" does with it all.

People Excell at hurting themselves and others.

In the meantime,
Here, watch this while you hold my beer.

 

[Donald H]

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Thanks for the replies. So far nobody wants to be owning the other opinion.

 

[Donald H]

We can go beyond earth orbit. The Voyager space probe is proof of that. It actually has gone beyond our Solar System.

Mars probes bringing back images of Mars landscapes and the night sky from Mars is also rather interesting as well.

But traveling any distance of near light speed for the travelers is short. But for us here on Earth? It will never happen. To us, if we put a ship into space capable of sub light speed but a significant portion of light speed....say 20% or so....
The occupants of the ship would survive the timeline but we would age rapidly by comparison and all would die of old age before they returned to tell us what they found.

And we would have discovered new technologies in the meantime.
(If we can keep from blowing ourselves up in the meantime)

Gotta figure that with each new "household" technology we develop people can abuse and turn into devastating new devices with the intent to harm others in some fashion.

Even a simple microwave oven can be turned into an EMP device or EW device of some sort. Nevermind what "Bubba" does with it all.

People Excell at hurting themselves and others.

In the meantime,
Here, watch this while you hold my beer.

You're confused John, I stipulated 'travel'. Do with it what pleases you! For now I think I can interpret your comments as beiing on the NO side with the the others.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

You're confused John, I stipulated 'travel'. Do with it what pleases you! For now I think I can interpret your comments as beiing on the NO side with the the others.

we traveled to the moon and back and we are working on reaching Mars

 

[Donald H]

Yhe point is: According to the very weighted popular opinion, the Russians did it first and that's where it stands. *(the equivalent of)

That's the surprise I got when I read the comments!

*suggesting that Gagarin did it all.

 

[Donald H]

we traveled to the moon and back and we are working on reaching Mars

Now we finally have one contrary opinion!
Thanks for playing sarge!