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 Topic: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?

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  • What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     OP - December 26, 2009, 10:30 PM
    What do you guys think? What's next? Speed of light? Traveling faster than the speed of light?

    Say in the next 50-70 years.
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #1 - December 26, 2009, 10:32 PM
    First we would have to figure out how to bend, stretch, and shrink space time. Or if they found the key to using Bell's theorem. Which is more 'stargateish', where you create a quantum potential for us to actually be millions of miles from where we actually are and fool quantum mechanics into instantly jumping us there. There are also some other theories that it may be possible to travel faster than light by using magnetic fields to enter a higher-dimensional space

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc_bJ4unLEU
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #2 - December 26, 2009, 10:33 PM
    Light speed has a slight problem: infinite mass. That means you need infinite energy to get there.
    Faster than light has a bigger problem: you need negative rest mass. Try making a spaceship that literally weighs less  than nothing.
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #3 - December 26, 2009, 10:43 PM
    Damn! So I guess we're stuck here?
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #4 - December 26, 2009, 10:48 PM
    Well we wont be colonising the galaxy in the next hundred years. If you want to read up on fun spacey stuff check out this site: Atomic Rockets 
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #5 - December 26, 2009, 11:26 PM
    What about travel by worm holes? Is that possible?

    I just saw that now in Cosmos  dance
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #6 - December 26, 2009, 11:31 PM
    First, catch your worm hole. Afro
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #7 - December 26, 2009, 11:46 PM
    Islam is the solution.
    Quote from: thinkfree on September 28, 2010, 07:58 PM
    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #8 - December 26, 2009, 11:48 PM
    Akhi space travel is innovation. Are you trying to get to Janna? Asstagfurallah.

    I wonder what was the reaction of the muslim and christian world when the first rocket was launched into space? And there was no heaven? Only space.
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #9 - December 26, 2009, 11:50 PM
    "I don't see any God up here." - Yuri Gagarin



    (actually I think that might be fabricated..  Tongue)
    Quote from: thinkfree on September 28, 2010, 07:58 PM
    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #10 - December 27, 2009, 12:06 AM
    Quote from: BlackDog on December 26, 2009, 11:48 PM
    Akhi space travel is innovation. Are you trying to get to Janna? Asstagfurallah.

    I wonder what was the reaction of the muslim and christian world when the first rocket was launched into space? And there was no heaven? Only space.

    No problem. They just moved heaven. They'll keep moving it as often as they need to. Wink
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #11 - December 27, 2009, 12:13 AM
    lol I wish I was around that time would have loved to see that panic envelope people as they realize there is nothing there. I wonder where heaven is now? Where the angels are? And the missiles that chase Jinns. Or is my "interpretation" of the Quran and the Hadiths much too literal? Tongue
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #12 - December 27, 2009, 12:57 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on December 26, 2009, 10:33 PM
    Light speed has a slight problem: infinite mass. That means you need infinite energy to get there.
    Faster than light has a bigger problem: you need negative rest mass. Try making a spaceship that literally weighs less  than nothing.


    Not negative rest mass just basically no intrinsic rest mass - same as photons. The video however was interesting bending space - that sounds like science fiction.
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #13 - December 27, 2009, 01:36 AM
    Today scifi...who knows the future. Hell, ten years ago my computer took up a desk and it took me an hour to dowload a song over a phone line....I'm writing this from a blackberry the size of my wallet.

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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #14 - December 27, 2009, 02:51 AM
    Quote from: Kafirist on December 26, 2009, 11:46 PM
    Islam is the solution.


    LOL!!  Cheesy



    I dream of teletransportation. Do you guys think it's even possible? I wish it could be.
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #15 - December 27, 2009, 02:55 AM
    I long for the days when they can extract your mind essentially your consciousness and store it into a newer body. So we can live for ever and ever Cheesy
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #16 - December 27, 2009, 07:05 AM
    Quote from: Heyjustlooking on December 27, 2009, 12:57 AM
    Not negative rest mass just basically no intrinsic rest mass - same as photons. The video however was interesting bending space - that sounds like science fiction.

    Nope. Zero rest mass just gives you light speed. For FTL travel you need negative rest mass.
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #17 - December 27, 2009, 12:06 PM
    Hey BlackDog, I found a couple of interesting articles about space travel.  Afro

    Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space

    Dark power: Grand designs for interstellar travel

    Note that a couple of the ideas mentioned in that earlier video* have been declared impractical and/or impossible.  Wink

    *but at least it had Amy Mainzer in it
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #18 - December 27, 2009, 12:25 PM
    Thanks Osmanthus, I'll check them out Smiley
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #19 - December 27, 2009, 07:10 PM
    I think space travel is possible within 50-70 years..

    But traveling at light speed is indefinite (not impossible) at least not in this century  grin12
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #20 - December 28, 2009, 07:45 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on December 27, 2009, 07:05 AM
    Nope. Zero rest mass just gives you light speed. For FTL travel you need negative rest mass.


    Sorry I was talking abut light speed travel lol. Must have misread your post, sorry.
    "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #21 - December 30, 2009, 08:01 AM
    Just some fun stuff

    http://science.discovery.com/videos/sci-fi-science-traveling-at-warp-speed.html
    http://science.discovery.com/videos/sci-fi-science-traveling-to-a-parallel-universe.html
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    superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
    is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #22 - January 02, 2010, 08:43 PM
    Quote from: trumora on December 27, 2009, 02:51 AM
    I dream of teletransportation. Do you guys think it's even possible? I wish it could be.


    This is already possible, but it takes aloooot of computing power. Oh, and it won't facilitate space travel... yet...?
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  • Re: What's the future of Space Travel within our lifetime?
     Reply #23 - January 02, 2010, 10:38 PM
    I think we'll see the first man (or woman) on Mars in our lifetime. That will be about it.
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