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| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 11:57 AM EDT |
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we could get there in say, 120,000 years.
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Around the time Apple vs Samsung wraps up? ;-)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 06:45 PM EDT |
The following is based on various levels of technology in the "Star Trek
Universe". As the subject says, it's fantasy so if you have different
calculations, have fun :)
How long would it take the various generations
of Star Trek to travel 1,200 light years in the technology available to them -
this is at a constant rate of speed the entire time:
Archer: warp 4.5, 84x
light speed =
14 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 27 minutes, 17
seconds
Kirk: warp 9, 729x light speed =
1 year, 7 months, 3
weeks, 1 day, 20 hours, 23 minutes, 13 seconds
Picard: warp 9,
1,516.28x light speed =
9 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour, 22 minutes, 54
seconds
Wow - 9 months is still a long time relative to constant
non-stop traveling for the distance. Guess we'll either have to rely on Q or
search for something closer.
Someone else can have the fun handling the
speed calculations for Voyager ;)
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| Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 04:12 AM EDT |
It is only just now that we can see them and these are the first found and
they are far. But around every star there is a zone where water is a liquid and
it has 1-3 planets in it, and if the planet is too large it has suitable rocky
moons where Men could live. These planets and moons are universally terrestrial
- made of rock and covered with water. The exceptions to this are so rare that
they need not be considered - they involve things like binary stars orbiting
each other where the planets should be, stars that pulse dangerously and
such.
We don't know how to get to even the nearest stars yet without
generation ships. We will need fusion to do that. I think we will figure it
out. I don't expect to see the day. When we get there we will always
find bodies that could theoretically sustain Men.
But then we get to
chemistry. If Men today found the Earth coming from a different star and it was
a world that had never known life, then its atmosphere would be toxic to us. It
would take millions of years to alter that atmospheric balance and we were
better off altering the Men. Life has conditioned the Earth's environment and
made it suitable for men - and Men evolved to live in this conditioned
environment. If we get to a lifeless planet around another star then it will
not be so conditioned.
Personally I think that with the considerable mixing
of material between the stars we will find life has set the stage for us on all
the terrestrial planets we are likely to visit in the next ten thousand years.
But I could be wrong. Regardless at this point the explorers would be prepared
to live in their craft indefinitely - a truly spacebound race.
But this is
talk about exploring the vast unknown lands far away when we haven't even
explored our own basement and attic yet. Men will live on the bottom of the
sea, on the Moon and Mars, some asteroids and in open space before we venture to
the stars. Except for speculative fiction we need not worry yet about the fate
of these explorers.
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