Alien planets seen for the first time.

[PurpleSheep]

Originally Posted by Cane_The9lives

Your great great great grandchildrens.. grandchildren wont see that in their lifetime.

The only feasible exploration that could be done within the a few hundred years would be exploring our planetary solar system....as far as actually leaving the solar system....impossible, considering how far the closest planet to earth is.

Probes are another story, sattelite probes will go farther into space than any human being will ever venture.

That's not necessarily true at all you can't predict scientific break throughs and one break through could lead to another and so on.

[Cane_The9lives]

Originally Posted by PurpleSheep

That's not necessarily true at all you can't predict scientific break throughs and one break through could lead to another and so on.

I'm appealing to the almost scientific impossibility of faster than light travel.

Even if it was possible, you still wouldnt see it in your lifetime, or the lifetime of your childrens childrens childrens.

We in 2008 have yet to accomplish man missions past our moon, let alone the closest planet.

Going by those parameters and probabilites, having the ability to leave our solar system within any concievable lifetime seems insurmountable.(speaking of manned missions)
But there is always hope i guess.

[N0sf3ra2]

this kind of stuff makes me wonder how far the human race is really going to go. it seems that we want our race to continue on through time even if it's not in the same planet we started on.

[Gathan]

Originally Posted by Cane_Relives

I'm appealing to the almost scientific impossibility of faster than light travel.

Even if traveling faster than light is impossible.
We could still find a way to bend the fabric of space time and instantly move from one location to another without crossing the distance between them, and we wouldn't be traveling faster than light so no law would be broken.
There are many very futuristic possibilities as far as getting around the whole light speed barrier.
So I wouldn't use that as the signal excuse for why we won't be able to travel between stars one day.

[The stig]

^You've been watching too much futurama

[Gathan]

Originally Posted by The stig

^You've been watching too much futurama

Hey come on at one time airplanes were pretty futurama too

[Cane_The9lives]

Originally Posted by Gathan

Even if traveling faster than light is impossible.
We could still find a way to bend the fabric of space time and instantly move from one location to another without crossing the distance between them, and we wouldn't be traveling faster than light so no law would be broken.
There are many very futuristic possibilities as far as getting around the whole light speed barrier.
So I wouldn't use that as the signal excuse for why we won't be able to travel between stars one day.

You're speaking ofcourse of an Einstein rosen bridge(wormhole) whereas since a straight line is the fastest route between two points, by folding the fabric of time and space you could create a "Wormhole" which in effect is a shortcut to a destination.

We are nowhere near the point of bending time and space to create manmade wormholes.

If wormholes exist, you would have better luck finding a natural one and using It.

But time would be better spent in attempting to devise a way in which you can travel to the closest planet, in a practical manner.