Next Solar System Over
Let's say out sun was exploding, and we needed to get out of here.
Our best bet would be to go to the next nearest star, because there might be planets and there is for sure energy.
How far is the next nearest star?
4 light years and a bit.
4?! That's not a big number at all!
So we hop into our RV and start driving at 100 kilometers an hour, straight at that star.
How long till we get there?
Just, uh, 46 million years.
Think of how many generations would come an go in that RV.
And now take into consideration evolution.
The oldest primate fossils ever found are 47 million years old.
posted by Admin @ 23:09
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By the time we got there we'd be a different species. The idea turns me on in the weirdest ways.
A spacecraft would likely go a lot faster then a 100 kilometers an hour, the New Horizons probe, the fastest thing we're made, is going some 58,536 km/h. It would still take a long time to reach another star, but the idea right now is building a generation or millennial ship, something that would be capable of sustaining a couple of generations worth of spaceflight.
but you age slower in space :D
and oh sorry forgot to add... maybe a stargate is a solution?
i want a space travelling RV
Damn, if we used a space ship that moved at the speed of light it would be 4years, still that is a lot of time to be crammed up in a flying washing machine.
cool
Haha, it would take us our whole lifetime to get to that star! Wow amazing information.
That means if we go to that star, in 46 million years later some kind of alien will be excavating us :P
Damn, now you got me thinking.
The only way to travel fast is break the lightspeed. only way..
So we're pretty much screwed. Unless we can harness the full extent of nuclear power, in which we can contain it. Using the same fuel source which powers the sun. So if we managed to go a little slower than the speed of light it would take, depending on which speed it would be, around 100+ years. :D
damn, thats big
Ok but even our space ships fly faster that 100 km/h. As a matter of fact with current state of technology we can theoreticaly build vessel capable of 0,25 of light speed. (yet i don't know which tech it is nuclear bomb shockwave or laser sail or gravitional sling)
damn it! were doomed...
hence the search for faster than light travel
The universe is amazing
That would take forever. Lol. Time for new propulsion technologies.
So, basically, we would evolve into some transcendent species while traveling? Sounds fine to me.
Okay, I'd better start going to church then.
I always get a bit freaked out when people talk about the possibilities of planets colliding into earth or whatever.
and 47 million years?
Wow. Wow.
Teehee. That means a lot of sex in the backs of cars.
wow quite big numbers
wow... that's a long way away.
Not too far away then lol.
I'd like to repopulate the new planet with some models.
Thats a long time
let's just hope that the sun does not explode
Astronomy and their big... tfu.. HUGE numbers. You know how many stars contain the galaxy? And for each star count +few plantets. Also you have a lot of group of galaxies, and more and more... It's so amazing!
Lol, doesnt sound like we'll make it.
even more interesting is on a quantum level we're made of things that move at near light speed.
It's only a matter of time before RVs can take us to other planets!
im waiting for the day they figure out how to travel faster than speed of light
>46 million years to move
>oldest fossils 47 million years
We're doomed, aren't we?
the universe is so huge..
Universe is the host to the biggest numbers, I think even after your analysis its STILL a little hard to fathom it all.
or we can move earth, like the event
I think we'll get there one day, somehow...too bad if we don't.
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