other stars?

[packnrat]

ok i get exploring.
but other stars?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...of-life/ar-AAkJ4ol?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

it would take many life times just to get to alpha centaury.
other stars 1000 of times longer. up to zillion zillion times longer. :afm199

what good would this information do the peoples of this planet? the "other planet?

would the government's, churches even want to pop here to know if life was found elsewhere?


so much money spent on this "research".
money better spent building a city or 10 in the moon, mars,(underground due to radiation problems) in orbit around earth, the moon, and mars... jupiter, saturn?

at least these can be done with tech we already have and use, plus can be built in a life time. travel time is just days, months to a year or so.


.

 

[motomania2007]

Exploration drives innovation as the new problems require new solutions and those new solutions help society as a whole.

The moon missions of the 60s did a lot to create a lot of today's tech that might or might not have occurred without the moon mission driving demand for the tech.

Missions to other stars will require new solutions and innovations.

 

[SFSV650]

How can we understand our place in the universe when we know next to nothing about it?

 

[Blankpage]

More money is spent on video games, Star Wars and Avatar than on the search for ET. Should all funds be redirected to moon cities?

 

[stangmx13]

The $100M listed in the article can hardly build a bridge in the US. That's not even pocket change when it comes to building something in space. At SpaceX prices, that'd put 1 satellite in low Earth orbit IIRC but it wouldn't build the satellite.

 

[packnrat]

but what good could it be,
it takes light thousands of years to even get there. so nobody could even talk
as it would be genrations befor they got a message, let alone a reply.

and that is baised on both side knowing the correct way to send and recive said messages. guess language would be some form of math?

good old dots and dashes?

 

[SFSV650]

but what good could it be,
it takes light thousands of years to even get there. so nobody could even talk
as it would be genrations befor they got a message, let alone a reply.

Then should we not start as soon as possible?

 

[OldBlade]

42

 

[Zerox]

How can we understand our place in the universe when we know next to nothing about it?

M-O-O-N that spells 'moon'

 

[HeatXfer]

Nah, we'll get there. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[bojangle]

but what good could it be,
it takes light thousands of years to even get there. so nobody could even talk
as it would be genrations befor they got a message, let alone a reply.

and that is baised on both side knowing the correct way to send and recive said messages. guess language would be some form of math?

good old dots and dashes?

You've gotta think outside the worm hole. Research, efforts, and money spent could one day develop technology, or lead to discovery or the harnessing of new methods, which might make traveling that distance feasible in a much shorter period of time than we can imagine today.

 

[motomania2007]

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Awesome!

Don't forget your towel!

but what good could it be,
it takes light thousands of years to even get there. so nobody could even talk
as it would be genrations befor they got a message, let alone a reply.

and that is baised on both side knowing the correct way to send and recive said messages. guess language would be some form of math?

good old dots and dashes?

Why couldn't they communicate enroute? Communications travels at lightspeed. Even if it takes 100 years to get to a star 4 light years away, it only takes a maximum of 4 years for the communications to travel each way. Yes that is disjointed communications but still communications. My guess is there would be a constant stream going both ways.

I also suspect that if it took us 100 years to send a first starship someplace, we would have people at the other end that got there first, in a second starship, because technological advances don't stop when we send the first starship and the second starship will be faster. Heck, in all likelihood, a third starship would beat the first and the second starship.

I also suspect that faster than light communications would be developed somewhere along the line...

I think all of these things are merely an issue of focusing enough minds on the challenges and eventually the brainpower will "stumble" on the solutions to the challenges.

There are tons of examples of this over history.

 

[Reli]

Because knowledge itself is important? Unless all you care about are material comforts. If so, your life has little meaning.

 

[budman]

Nah, we'll get there. What could possibly go wrong?

:laughing :thumbup

Exploration drives innovation as the new problems require new solutions and those new solutions help society as a whole.

The moon missions of the 60s did a lot to create a lot of today's tech that might or might not have occurred without the moon mission driving demand for the tech.

Missions to other stars will require new solutions and innovations.

+1

 

[tuxumino]

M-O-O-N that spells 'moon'

yes , yes it does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjj1vHhV7W8


youtu.be/Qjj1vHhV7W8

and each planet in the universe has a Sailor Guardian that is dedicated to protecting the star seeds of those under her protection.

Sailor Moon is your guardian and you should be thankful for her strength and devotion.