/sci/ - Science & Math

Wait 3-5 billion years for Andromeda to collide into us.

bumpin

>>3211283


i cant wait that long to find my queen gitzati of tatfaven

Are you looking for actual solutions or someting like FTL magic?

>>3211270
None.

>>3211306
Solutions that look promising and that may come to fruition in the next 50 years.

Here's a better question, why would we want to go to another galaxy? We've got a big one that we're already inside of, surely most others have relatively the same composition (disregard the theory of dark matter galaxies for now).

10 years is probably to short, lets say 50 years.

>>3211270
find a way to fold the 5th or 6th dimension i forgot which one

If there is a solution it will inevitably involve high energy densities on minuscule time scales.

But even if it were possible, you would still run the risk of emerging inside a fucking star or worse, a black hole.

>>3211335

You think we're going to have intergalactic flight in the next 100 years? 500 years is being optimistic, but then again, who knows when we'll have the next huge breakthrough...

>>3211330
It doesn't necessarily have to be to another galaxy, the problem is how slow space travel technology currently is. It takes about 3 years to get to mars.

MFW i know where OP's pic is, because i've been there

Advances are made by solid investment in current institutions and academics as well as proper funding for those still in formal education.

If we threw billions into science, we could have applicable next-generation results within 20 years or we could answer questions that perplex us currently.

>>3211407

It's in Italy, faggot.
And everyone knows that Italy is just a massive boot covered in a white flag.

I kind of doubt it's possible. If it were, intelligent civilizations would be all over the place.

>>3211427

>>3211390
Just because you think it's a problem doesn't make it a one.

Also to answer, in 10 earth years you can go to max 10 LY.
This can be achieved using light.
If you want to send something other than info then we can go with:
Laser accelerated solar sails for small payloads and long trips.
Ion thrusters for big loads and long trips.
In short trips chemical rockets are good and some form of nuclear powered rocket could also be used.

These are of course decades away from today, but the tech is somewhat simple.

The space elevator is showing more promise than many expected and once that hurdle is over come we will be able to travel much further.

ITT: Idiots who don't know anything about relativity.

You could get to the edge of the known universe in your own lifetime if you accelerated at 3g non-stop due to time outside appearing to speed up so much at speeds extremely close to c.

The issue isn't about being able to get there, it's being able to get there without loads of time passing in the rest of the universe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGE-WRqgPRE

>>3212226
>implying that's ever been practically tested
Need I remind you that the best scientific minds on Earth once thought the world was flat and anyone travelling to the edge would fall into Hell?

While the mathematics may hold up for the whole time dilation business, but I wouldn't count on that as a way around vast interstellar distances unless someone had already proven it in the real world.

>>3212670
Relativity has been proven with satellites with perfectly accurate clocks.

GPS satellites even have to account for time dilation it when in operation

>>3212670

Fuck you are dumb and wrong. Time dilation is a real thing, look at the half life of muons.

>>3212687
Time dilation has been observed.

This is quite a different issue than "proving" relativity.

>>3211270
None.

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>>3212700
>>3212687
>mfw youg die out there in the infinite blackness between the stars

>>3212739
Fuck I'm drunk. Terrible spelling is terrible.

>>3212747

It's probably why you're spewing retarded shit, too.

>>3212717

>Implying time dilation isn't exactly what special relativity is about.
>Implying it's not the thing that is directly relevant to what I was talking about.

Stupid fuck.

>>3212670
>the best scientific minds on Earth once thought the world was flat and anyone travelling to the edge would fall into Hell?

Votre visage quand