/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9105813
>ok, what would be the next best thing for space travel? are we just stuck with what we have now or is there something better?
Age extension, suspended animation, and/or embryonic colony ships.

Nothing that's going to happen in your lifetime, but we're probably going to have biological immortality before we have interstellar colonizes.

>i understand that it's for storytelling but i wanted to know if there is any feasible way to achieve something like it in real life.
Black hole star ships aren't as sci-fi as the concept sounds. They are possible under current technology, save that we need a good gamma-reflecting material, and a whole lotta infrastructure (a couple of orbital solar panels the size of small states, even under current solar efficiency). Wouldn't get you FTL, but would get you fast enough that you could reach the nearest stars in reasonable time. Stars are sparse out here at the edge of the galaxy, but still not more than 4-8 light years, apart on average.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32AkL6HPfc

Beyond that, and the good old Alcubierre drive, keep in mind that we don't really have that great a grasp on physics yet. We don't really know what about 90% of the universe is made of or how what it might be made made of works, exactly. So, other possibilities are bound to raise their heads in the distant future.

>>6959214
just need a ship w/ a nice gravity drive, M8