/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5511010]

Someone stole my external hard drive so I don't have my 4chan folder

But anyways, yea, 13 light years away from earth are millions of earth like planets.
Should we stop making missiles and start making space ships for future generations?
I think so!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/earth-like-planets-are-ri_n_2632324.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

[Anonymous No.5511034]

Sorry, I guess you guys must be too busy with homework threads.
I'll be back later... :(

[Anonymous No.5511033]

>>5511010
13 light years is a hell of a distance.

For every year it takes for light to travel it takes roughly 38,000 years for the space shuttle to travel the same distance.

Not only would this require copious amounts of fuel, more than Earth can supply and enough to bankrupt every country simultaneously, but this would require enough food to last 38,000 years, enough people to breed healthy offspring for 38,000 years, enough oxygen for 38,000 years and a ship huge enough to house all this.

IF we pulled some kind of physical miracle and managed to achieve light-speed (which is impossible, Einstein wasn't lying) it would still take 13 years which is epic compared to the 4 days it took to get to the moon.

It's highly impractical to build a rocket big enough to house 13 years worth of fuel, food and oxygen let alone 38,000 years worth.

>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.5511041]

Let the free market handle it.

[Anonymous No.5511045]

>>5511033
Actually it would be more like 494,000 not 38,000 to travel 13 light years.

[Anonymous No.5511048]

>>5511033

You dumb shit. New technology will evolve allowing us to eventually go as close to go close to light speed. Time dilation will kick in and we'll visit distant galaxies in months of our time.

[Anonymous No.5511057]

>>5511048
If we traveled 13 light years in a few months we would have gone back in time.

Way back in time. So we couldn't bring back anything we found because king Cnut has yet to be born by the time we would return to Earth.

Lrn2relativity

[Anonymous No.5511065]

>>5511057
We don't plan on coming back.
This is about continuing the human race to conquer the universe.

[Anonymous No.5511069]

>>5511041
Yeah, that way we can wait a fucking extra 100 years in stead of just getting fucking nasa in on the subject.

[Anonymous No.5511070]

>>5511065
Okay, how do you plan do transport enough people to populate a planet?

Nothing with mass can break the speed of light or even reach it you dumbfuck.

>>>/highschool/

[Anonymous No.5511074]

>>5511057

>If we traveled 13 light years in a few months we would have gone back in time.

Light years are a measure of distance, not time. /sci/ has gone retarded, not calling this little dumb faggot out on his shit.

[Anonymous No.5511079]

>>5511033
lrn2warpdrive


And stop spamming fucking /x/ you retard. I hate skeptical retards that brand stuff scientific bullshit right off that bat.

[Anonymous No.5511081]

>>5511070
>lrn2warpdrive

[Anonymous No.5511084]

>>5511069
Are you saying we can gather the fuel (enough of which cannot be found on Earth), food (which would weigh enough to sink the ship before it left Earth) and oxygen with any amount of money in the US then go on to build a ship big enough to house and support all this as well as enough people to populate this planet all the while developing the technology to break the speed of light within 100 years?

Sure is stoner in here.

[Anonymous No.5511083]

>>5511079
the*

[Anonymous No.5511088]

>>5511079
>>5511081
>lrn2relativity
>lrn2economics
>lrn2reality

[fucking retards No.5511089]

[fucking retards No.5511097]

>>5511088
>lrn2relativity
>rn2relativity
>n2relativity
>2relativity
>relativity
>elativity
>lativity
>ativity
>tivity
>ivity
>vity
>ity
>ty
>y
>


>doesnt know what space time is and how a warp drive works

[Anonymous No.5511101]

>>5511097
>Doesn't realize that warp-drive is and always has been looking bleak since it requires more energy than even the sun can supply and negative mass.

Relativity applies to everything even warp drive. The only problem warp-drive solves is time-dilation.

[fucking retards No.5511108]

>>5511101
http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/how-to-make-an-energy-efficient-warp-drive-120924.htm

You seem to have been isolated from the scientific community for sometime now.

>mfw a Alcubierre drive will only need a fuel source the size of voyager 1

[Anonymous No.5511115]

>>5511079
Methinks thou dost not know what the definition of "skeptic" is, my lord.

[Anonymous No.5511117]

>>5511108
But will still require negative mass.

That is the #1 obstacle with warp-drive.

[Anonymous No.5511128]

>>5511117
This is true, but in time will be possible.

[Anonymous No.5511124]

>>5511108
>quotes discovery
>discovery made a publication that said mermaids were real

[Anonymous No.5511135]

>>5511128
That is an assertion, not a fact. I can similarly say that in time, we'll be able to convert space in to an infinite amount of energy per the research of Nassim Haramein, or that we'll one day invent perpetual motion devices. But no, just no.

[Anonymous No.5511132]

>>5511124

[Anonymous No.5511133]

>>5511128
To give people and ships negative mass?

My sides are 13 light years away,

[Anonymous No.5511136]

>>5511124
>thinks that mermaids aren't real

[Anonymous No.5511140]

>>5511136
>Onus probandi.

[Anonymous No.5511142]

Can someone explain why negative mass is required?

[Anonymous No.5511146]

>>5511142
Spacetime dilation/curvatire-mass proportionality

[Anonymous No.5511144]

>>5511133
>To give people and ships negative mass?

>hurr fuel

[Anonymous No.5511147]

>>5511146
Okay that makes sense. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.5511148]

>>5511144
Actually giving anything negative mass and sustaining it would use an ungodly amount of fuel.

And I was just talking about how the concept itself is less practical than an Infinite probability drive.

[Anonymous No.5511151]

>>5511147
I apologize for the typo. Running on four hours of sleep.