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[Ashlyed]

Gliese 581

A speculation of a new inhabitable colony for humans race in the future. Only 20 years light travel away, which takes around 49,000-51,000 years with our current technology.
But fear not ladies and gentlemens, we still have a few decades to improve drastically the speed of travel.
And then right after humans able to invent light-speed travel, the universe is the next to conquer.

For the Sparta!

[Heidenreich6]

"Only 20 years light travel away."

Ain't gonna happen.

[LordShaft]

guess i beter go back in my basement, working on that time machines

[Kitrine]

You know it'll happen. Eventually. Humans have what it takes with our determination. In the small amount of time we've had space programs we've done so much already. I doubt anyone believed we'd have PCs and laptops years ago but we do, don't we?

[xenomorph]

I got dibs on mars

[ShadowEmpire187]

traveling at the speed of light is impossible for the human body to withstand. The G-foorces alone will either do 1 of two things, flatten ur body untill its more thin then paper or ur flesh will desinagrate ripping apart ur atoms 1 by 1.

[brixgwapo]

zzz too lazy

[Rivenwolf]

Originally Posted by Kitrine

You know it'll happen. Eventually. Humans have what it takes with our determination. In the small amount of time we've had space programs we've done so much already. I doubt anyone believed we'd have PCs and laptops years ago but we do, don't we?

No amount of determination can break the laws of physics.

No matter how fast you go, your perception of light speed will always be the same. As in, you'll never see yourself getting "closer" to light speed. Ainstein pwns me.

[Schisma]

The only restriction is that the time to get there has to be greater than 20 years. Even if the trip would take more than a human lifetime, it's entirely POSSIBLE to reach the planet eventually. Humans taken on the "craft", whatever it is used to reach the planet, would be able to have babies and keep a line going until they reach the destination....

[pieguy314]

I read about this a few days ago. Maybe we could go throw a cryogenics machine so we could techincally "sleep" and eventually reach there?

[Schisma]

Raise young on the space shuttle ftw.

[Terraka]

Speed of Light was covered in another topic already, and it is well-known that your mass will reach infinity as you approach the SoL. Also, the energy required to attain the SoL is also infinity (Good luck with generating that).

But back on topic:
I wouldn't mind creating a Galatic Empire in the name of Humanity XD
lol, technology is advancing at an exponential rate. Hopefully, within the next 10 years, we'll have some super-pwnage way to travel to other planets.

[controls]

Originally Posted by ShadowEmpire187

traveling at the speed of light is impossible for the human body to withstand. The G-foorces alone will either do 1 of two things, flatten ur body untill its more thin then paper or ur flesh will desinagrate ripping apart ur atoms 1 by 1.

Hmm... judging by the speed of light, if a human were to move at that speed the Earth's gravity wouldn't probably be able to react in time.

As such, not only would you be torn apart atom by atom but you would also be held in place while your physical and mental energies are ripped apart and flung across the galaxy. Then there's the matter of actually re-assembling yourself...

[1000cranes]

Originally Posted by pieguy314

I read about this a few days ago. Maybe we could go throw a cryogenics machine so we could techincally "sleep" and eventually reach there?

Ahahhahahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahahhaaaa- Bull****

You all know about those people that had their heads frozen so that they could theoretically be revived with a new body right? Well, I feel really sorry for those guys, they are completely screwed.

You all know about cells and how we're made of them right? You also know that most of our body is water, right? Now, what happens to water when it freezes? Thats right, it expands and forms ice crystals. So when you get defrosted, all your precious little cells have hundreds of holes in them from the shards of ice, and the cytoplasm all drains out. Not a pretty picture, folks.
Same thing happens with a "cyrogenics" chamber, except with your whole body instead of just your head.

However, there is a thing called time dilation. Time is affected by your speed and gravity. Take two atomic clocks, put one at the bottom of the ocean and one at the top of a high mountain. The one on the high mountain will be slightly faster due to gravitational time dilation.
Time also slows down as you speed up, this has been tested and the results point to this being true. There is a theory (theory=not proved) of Einstein's, however, that suggests that since the speed of light is the absolute fastest speed in nature, time will slow to the point where it completely stops when you hit the speed of light. The second part of the theory is that time will go backwards if you go past the speed of light.

So supposing that you find some way to survive light-speed travel, time won't really be much of an issue. You wont age at all. The worst you would have to worry about is getting a bit younger, which never hurt anyone.


Of course, this is all supposing that we survive long enough to do this and that people start paying attention to CFCs rather than CO2 since CFCs have a much higher specific heat capacity. If there were as much CFCs in the atmosphere as CO2 right now, we would all be fried to a crisp. The only reason that hasn't happened is because we haven't produced nearly as much CFCs as CO2 yet.

[adisbad0]

I live on mars anyway tbh