Why haven't we sent a spaceship filled with people to possible habitable planets??

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by 4th and Long

If aliens are out there, actively looking for life in the universe, our entire solar system may not even be visible to them, depending on how far away they are.

Let's say that, 100 light years away, there is intelligent life looking in our direction. The light that departed earth that's just now reaching them occured 100 years ago and they'll be seeing us as we were in 1925, not 2025.

Now let's go a little further away to 70 million light years. They would be watching dinosaurs roam the earth.

If you go to 4.6 billion light years or farther, the solar system hasn't even formed yet. They would only be able to observe the clouds of dust and gas that formed our solar system. To those aliens, there's nothing here to see.

While this makes perfectly sound and logical sense, this also assumes that humans have discovered and mastered all things relating to physics, gravity, and travel through space without having actually traveled through space for any meaningful distance (that we're generally aware of). I say this to keep hope alive that there is an answer out there for us that these things can be achievable for us hairless apes one day soon, lol.

[4th and Long]

Originally Posted by Bowser

While this makes perfectly sound and logical sense, this also assumes that humans have discovered and mastered all things relating to physics, gravity, and travel through space without having actually traveled through space for any meaningful distance (that we're generally aware of). I say this to keep hope alive that there is an answer out there for us that these things can be achievable for us hairless apes one day soon, lol.

I, too, pray that one day, all of the hairless, pink, suburbanites that inhabit this rock will be able to spread out amongst the stars. Of course, we haven't figured out how to cure a case of the hiccups yet so we may be doomed as a race when the sun swells up, goes red giant, and engulfs the planet.

[TripleThreat]

Originally Posted by Bowser

While this makes perfectly sound and logical sense, this also assumes that humans have discovered and mastered all things relating to physics, gravity, and travel through space without having actually traveled through space for any meaningful distance (that we're generally aware of). I say this to keep hope alive that there is an answer out there for us that these things can be achievable for us hairless apes one day soon, lol.

That’s what I was gonna say. Sound point but it’s a point made on the logic we know ourselves, not the logic others (aliens) may know or have at their disposal

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

How do the materials get to there for the next city

Each space city is a slot on the conveyor belt of supplies. Every 5 years, Earth sends the supplies for a space City to the nearest space city. In 5 years that City then sends it on to the next city and receives supplies from the previous city. You just keep doing that. Maybe at some point the Space City in the asteroid belt starts packing the supplies onto asteroids and shipping them on paramaterials.

[Basileus777]

We also don't have the technology to even identify habitable planets with enough precision. Spectral data can tell us there is x probability that a planet has a certain type of atmosphere, but that's not enough information to launch an expedition off of.

[Rain Man]

An inherent challenge in this sort of scenario is that as you travel further from earth you get more of a delay in television broadcasts, and specifically the Chiefs.

As an example, if you travel at 5 percent of the speed of light, it'll take 1/20 of a year for Chiefs games to reach you. That delay will add up each year, so the second year in this example will take 1/10 of a year.

This will produce a decreasing frequency of Chiefs games, which astrophysicists know as a "Chiefs red shift". Over the course of 21 years, you'll only get 20 years of Chiefs games at 5 percent of light speed. This will make it very difficult to recruit intelligent males for the mission.

[philfree]

Cryogenics might play a part.

[Stryker]

Here is why...

[Hammock Parties]

Because NASA has been incompetent for decades.

Elon's working on it.

[Kiimo]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Because NASA has been incompetent for decades.

Elon's working on it.

I think you probably, actually believe this


which, lmao

[BigRedChief]

We are not traveling the stars anytime soon. We need the establishment of a new kind of safe "fuel" before we can even think about it.

AND...... its a very big gamble. There is nada chance that we wont encounter some species that see us a threat, see our resources as an add to their stuff.

[Donger]

We can't travel fast enough. Not even close.

Focus on Mars.

[Hog Rider]

There's not even enough Tang on earth to last long enough to get there.

[ForeverChiefs58]

They should go to the moon to inhabit and see if humans can survive first. Earth isn’t far, and the ISS can be a great place to serve as a go between.

[BWillie]

Even if you had a generational ship that allowed a small civilization to travel between the stars chances are the biologicals would kill each other, mutiny, or their young would decide somewhere along the line they had other plans.