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Cheesenium
post Jun 15 2009, 04:20 PM

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It's still a science fiction as there are so many obstacles around it.The solar flare radiation,the technologies we currently have and the shear distance between stars.Besides,what we know about space is so little.

I doubt it would be possible in next few centuries.

People are working on it,but i dont think we get to see it in our life time.Unless immortality available for us in next 10-20 years.
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post Jun 15 2009, 11:02 PM

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QUOTE(IcyDarling @ Jun 15 2009, 06:38 PM)
So your point is to send a few batch of human to Mars? Why would we do it... God has gave us more than enough for us. Earth, is somewhat a much resourceful planet than wat human can use... (Despite the fact that we overuse and negatively use them) I'd rather spend the $$$ educating, or probably *transport all the resource from mars to earth"
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I dont see why we shouldnt do so,as curiousity is a human nature that cause us to explore to other planets.

If we could transport the resource from Mars to Earth,i dont see why we cant actually send someone there.

QUOTE(bgeh @ Jun 15 2009, 06:46 PM)
Yes that's the first step towards any useful spaceship, but the issues with radiation in space have not been solved yet by any means. Propulsion is the next problem, we have nothing that's remotely efficient when it comes to propulsion (ion ones are nice and everything but they're slow...... not much acceleration at all, and you can dream on when it comes to antimatter, we only make less than a nanogram of antimatter each year, and nothing much's going to change on that front either)
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Do you mean someone actually manage to generate antimatter? How do they do that?

Isnt it some sort of theoretical material?

QUOTE(ThanatosSwiftfire @ Jun 15 2009, 07:05 PM)
Good point. Maybe we'd crash into it. Or send drop-pods like in C&C.
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To be honest,we are talking about science,not those fantasy-like kind of science from games.

Most,if not all of them doesnt make any sense.
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post Jun 15 2009, 11:32 PM

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QUOTE(SeaGates @ Jun 15 2009, 11:23 PM)
IIRC, if you create matter out of pure energy, anti matter will appear, since they're like twins of each other, evil one that is.

Nuclear fission produces a tiny amount of anti-matter too but it's so little that, bgeh's mentioned 'nanogram' sounds like a few megatons in perspective laugh.gif

Space exploration is possible if we can achieve a self-sustained ecosystem on the ship or so. Energy will be important as everything solid can be recycled into their original state with the proper amount of energy. Can't rely on solar, no sun no juice. Fusion is good but there aren't proper working generator and it also require fuel.

You will also need to have enough material in cycle to sustain life. If say an entire ship will depend on grain as food, you'll need to have enough of grain to feed the human while newer grain grow and so on.

After all that, you have to handle the ravage human instinct. Munity is just too stupid if you're on a mission to save human race.

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I think human instinct would still be the biggest problem,unless you could put them on a long temporary coma state or something.If im not wrong,the russians actually did some tests on confining human beings in a space.The results arent good at all.

I do agree we cant rely on solar and solar sail is out then.
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post Jun 15 2009, 11:38 PM

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QUOTE(tgrrr @ Jun 15 2009, 11:30 PM)
I think in one of those proton colliders if I remember correctly. Got one that just open in Europe? One of the largest spanning kilometres underground. Some people are worried they might generate tiny blackholes  biggrin.gif
Of course it only exists for a short span of time being being consumed in the same process or something like that, can't remember.
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I still think those who say the LHC will destroy the world is bullshit.

QUOTE(bgeh @ Jun 15 2009, 11:33 PM)
That's a different concept. We've been producing antimatter regularly for say, 30+ years now, and they're stored using magnetic 'bottles' to separate them from matter.

Black holes being produced at the LHC is an entirely different matter though.
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I guess i have to study a bit on all these quantum physics then.

I cant really understand some of the terms here.

 

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