/sci/ - Science & Math

exactly. no one will ever fund something so unprofitable.

the future is Power Balance® and profitable stuff like that.

First we have to realize there is no solar system.

From my perspective, we already have.

>>2586279
>mfw when that

>>2586242
We've sent out Voyager 6 at least. Even if we never leave, our influence might.

>>2586242
Good. There's no need for mankind to even leave Earth!
The MACHINEKIND of man, on the other hand...

>>2586242
Pretty much everyone who has predicted that something will never happen (that isn't prohibited by the laws of physics and logic) have been wrong.

It was once thought we would never leave Earth, nor fly, nor cross the ocean, nor peer into it's depths.

>>2586308
>aliens somehow in a chance of fate that trumps the creation of life itself stumble upon Voyager
>what the fuck are all these noises and shiny things, fuck this thing shit
>given as a gift to alien child who promptly launches it into a sun for personal amusement

>>2586242

You must be a scientist, well have fun being stuck on earth masturbating to your white board as my engineering buddies and I take a test ride around the galaxy in our spaceship.

>>2586324
Pic somewhat related.

>>2586319

Exploration beyond the solar system is for all intensive purposes unfeasible with the laws of physics.

>Mankind will never leave the Solar System.
most likely
but why should you or I care?
we're all going to die sooner or later

>>2586345
>for all intensive purposes
>intensive purposes
>intensive

>>2586345
build self replicating ship add shitload of embryos, win.

>>2586345
No it isn't. All you need are ion-drives and patience.

We may not but a time capsule of our history and art will be sent into orbit around our star some day for a future visitor to find.

>>2586360

I'd like to see your self-replicating ship survive 100+ years of deep space travel.

Colombia fucking exploded into millions of pieces because a piece of foam broke off from it. Taking a ship to another star system entirely is a tall, tall order.

>>2586345
Traveling the oceans used to take months.
Now we can fly around the world in less than a day.
It would take a comparable amount of time to make the journey to Mars as it did back then. 400 years from now, we probably will be able to get to Mars in less than a day.

>>2586368
For all we know we could reach the Big Freeze before anything sentient comes along and poke at our capsule.

>>2586382
Titanic broke because its rivets shattered when it hit an iceberg. Yet we somehow have oceanliners going across the ocean all the time now.

>>2586382
You saying a space-built AI ship will have similar weight-limitations as a primitive ground-to-orbit cargo-hauler?

>>2586382
Don't compare travel through an atmosphere in a strong gravity well with travel through near-vacuum with negligable gravity. The void between stars has some helium, radiation and dust. You can feasibly build shields that protect a ship from that.