IamSorryiilol

IamSorryiilol t1_j2o5w2x wrote

Reply to comment by strvgglecity in Pulling together different technologies to make interstellar colonization possible by matthewgdick

I mean it isn't.. potentially habitable has meaning and it is not an asteroid or gas giant.

Lol.

Hmm no think you're incorrect on that one.

I suspect you do Mr 'Faster than light travel'.

This is what's called a tangent anyway. No we do not need new physics for interstellar travel, end of discussion.

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IamSorryiilol t1_j2nzb65 wrote

Reply to comment by strvgglecity in Pulling together different technologies to make interstellar colonization possible by matthewgdick

You're really really being pedantic here to try and brute force some sense of being right.

You know fine well I meant potentially habitable. We will have humans living on mars by 2040 at the latest. Co-HABITATING there as a group of HUMANS living on MARS.

Take your nonsense elsewhere. Humans will be living on other planets long before the end of the millennium, including those in far-off star systems you seem to think, is unachievable. It is a necessity, a requirement for survival.

Enjoy your bubble

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IamSorryiilol t1_j2nn6y2 wrote

Reply to comment by strvgglecity in Pulling together different technologies to make interstellar colonization possible by matthewgdick

See, what you did there was add a caveat of "human timescales" that didn't exist before.

Then you went on to agree with me? Very weird.

Anyway.. There are many many known habitable planets? Also, by the time any of this is viable, we would certainly be able to make non-habitable planets, habitable- ever heard of Mars?

"meaningful" is subjective to you. But, the science-fiction things you're talking about like "wormholes" or "traveling FASTER than the speed of light" are certainly going to require new physics. Faster than light travel.. haha made me chuckle.

We don't need any of these things to do interstellar travel. We just need time. These trips are one-way. Within my lifetime I certainly expect or at least hope humans to attain 1% of the speed of light..

"330,000 mph (535,000 kmh). That’s blindingly fast – yet only 0.05% of the speed of light" Is what a spacecraft has already achieved.

Our issues are certainly closer to being technological ones than physics. You need to wind that sci-fi neck in and be more realistic to the discussion.

Even at 10% the speed of light its 40 years to our nearest star. On earth people will age 40years not including time dilation. It is very much a long-term survival issue for our race.

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