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What do you think will be the best way to travel through space in the future? i mean, it seems that even at speedlight it would take years to get to the closest stars. Is there any way, theoretically, to avoid that?

>> No.4884521

>>4884516
Watch a lot of Michio Kaku.

And Stanley Kubrick.

>> No.4884530

>>4884521
thanks, i will

>> No.4884531
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4884531

We must navigate the immatereum.

>> No.4885585

We will create wormholes, then move them around on spaceships. Wormhole on spaceship will allow you to accelerate the ship to near lightspeed, because you can feed in as much fuel as you want. Also time dilation of the wormhole means Empire Time

>> No.4885589

Lorentz contraction motherfucker, do you speak it? Seriously, just pump enough energy into an engine an you'll make a 100,000 light year trip seem like 1 month from your perspective. This raises the problem of everything you ever loved being fucking dead for thousands of years though.

>> No.4885600

What about the issue of colliding into shit at the ultra high speeds? Worm holes seem like the only solution.

>> No.4885635

>>4885589
I've read somewhere than while theoretically possible, traveling 1 light year at 10x the speed of light in an average rocket would require about as much energy as is our current estimation of the output of the entire universe.

Also,
>What about the issue of colliding into shit at the ultra high speeds?
Is there any real solution to this? I mean, throw a big fucking rock at 0,1c, and if it hits something someone's day is probably ruined.

>> No.4885647

>Is there any real solution to this? I mean, throw a big fucking rock at 0,1c, and if it hits something someone's day is probably ruined.

Yes, you fire very powerful lasers in front of your ship to clear a path.

>> No.4885707

>>4884516
>lightspeed
>years to the nearest star
leave

>> No.4885710

Short of some groundbreaking discovery that allows us to "cheat" relativity, the only option for interstellar space travel would be generational ships.

>> No.4885714 [DELETED] 

>>4885707
But that is correct though.

At lightspeed (If it were possible) it would take just over 4 years to reach Proxima Centauri (The closest star to the Sun)

>> No.4885739

The one phenomenon that we know of that occurs faster than the speed of light is the expansion of the univetse itself. We may be able to cheat our way around the speed of light issue by utilizing machines capable of expanding and contracting space behind and infront of a space ship respectively.... but those ships would run on computers that cannot process faster than the speed electricity traveling through their parts (basically the speed of light; same force of nature)... I heard about this shit on the science channel long ago. Probably had something to do with Michio Kaku or however you spell his name.

>> No.4885745

>>4885714
Fuck. I digress.

>> No.4885760

>>4885739

Until we use that technology on the processors, then we cheated a "Processing-Faster-Than-Light" computer.

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4886159

We use the Mass Effect

>> No.4886213

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

>> No.4886217

>>4884516
It takes about 8 light-minutes to travel to the nearest star :)

>> No.4886238

>>4885647
How would you do that if your ship is faster than the speed of light, which means it would be faster than the laser?

>> No.4886241

>>4884516
>even at speedlight it would take years to get to the closest stars

You don't actually know any physics do you?

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.html

>> No.4886270

>>4886213
Great. All we need is a galaxy of negative matter to make a shell. Which is a fuck tonne and also probably doesn't exist.

>> No.4886280

gravity. not giving a fuck that i'm dead.

>> No.4886295

If you can achieve a significant percentage of the speed of light (more than 10%) Its realistic to travel to a star in a few months to few years ship time and one or more decades in external time.

So go visit a star, hang out there for a few years and return and only 30-40 years have passed for everyone else. Your experience was that the mission lasted less than a decade, with much of the time spent at the destination.

>> No.4886306

>>4886270
Antimatter occurs naturaly in van allen's radiation belts around planets, including those of Saturn and Jupiter, which may be a viable place for harvesting them.

They can be easily captured in magnetic trap.

All you need then is more gravity in front of you then behind you

>> No.4887256

>>4886295

10% of c? Um, nah bro. Time dilation to that degree would only kick in at above 70% of c.

>> No.4887628

crash one sun of lighting into another sun of magnets and harvest the energy. should get you anywhere you need to go pretty fast.

>> No.4887643

Just focus on longevity and generation ships. Maybe become a starship after uploading your brain.