Space Flight.

[jeffrefrig]

So, if one was to travel at light speed, I suppose headlights wouldn't do anything.
Explore our oceans here before space exploration, as stated above. That's what one of my Junior High teachers always said, too. That's pretty much all I remember about Jr. High.

 

[stu1ritter]

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At some point, either the new technology will be invented, or slow boats will do the job, but The Humans are coming to a star system near you!

Ivan

The enormity of space is sometimes hard to grasp. Travel to our nearest star neighbor, Proxima Centauri which is 4.24 light years distant is something to think about.
Some drive speeds/Times to Proxima
At 33,000mph/81,000 years to get there
At 165,000mph/12,541 years

Proxima Centauri is just at 25 Trillion miles from Earth. That's 4.24 light years and our Galaxy is aprrox. 87,400 light years across (plus/minus measure error) and Hubble has counted about 100 Billion galaxy's with estimates that Webb will count closer to 200 Billion. Space is a big place.

(all numbers approximate)

Stu

 

[rwsmith]

The light will get trapped.....

So, if one was to travel at light speed, I suppose headlights wouldn't do anything.
Explore our oceans here before space exploration, as stated above. That's what one of my Junior High teachers always said, too. That's pretty much all I remember about Jr. High.

The light will get trapped in the headlight reflectors until they are full. Then you will be able to track a spaceship by the trail of photons left in its wake.

 

[rwsmith]

We could....

We could mess around our own solar system for a couple of hundred years. No need to even think about travel outside the solar system until then.

 

[lkabug]

Ground Control to Major Tom

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Many of the magazine stories from the late 50's always said the bar waitresses from Titan's orbit were really something else. As a teen, I assumed that meant they were "Hot"! Now I'm not sure I really want to know what "Something Else" means!

Ivan

 

[delcrossv]

Many of the magazine stories from the late 50's always said the bar waitresses from Titan's orbit were really something else. As a teen, I assumed that meant they were "Hot"! Now I'm not sure I really want to know what "Something Else" means!

Ivan

 

[notsofast]

Well we will need toothpaste and deodorant won’t we.

 

[CalifEd]

Zero hour, 9 AM.

OR
5 o'clock

(Invasion by Ray Bradbury)

 

[jeffrefrig]

We could mess around our own solar system for a couple of hundred years. No need to even think about travel outside the solar system until then.

True, but have you seen some of those space women in Star Trek? Or Fireball XL5?

 

[rwsmith]

"Ok Venus?"

True, but have you seen some of those space women in Star Trek? Or Fireball XL5?

"Ok Steve."

Fantasies about Uhura, Yeoman Rand, Andrea, Orion Slave Girl (Yvonne Craig) etc. etc. I was really happy to find out how women will dress on the future.

Who remembers Crystal Mace in Space Angel and her form fitting space suit?

And even as an 8 year old kid in 1963 I thought there was something strange that Venus, who was a doctor, who also saved Steve Zodiac's life through surgery when shot by the butterfly drone, was always expected to make coffee for the guys as soon as she got out of her scrubs.

 

[Golddollar]

Well we will need toothpaste and deodorant won’t we.

Especially in a closed atmospheric system!

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

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At some point, either the new technology will be invented, or slow boats will do the job, but The Humans are coming to a star system near you!

Ivan

The enormity of space is sometimes hard to grasp. Travel to our nearest star neighbor, Proxima Centauri which is 4.24 light years distant is something to think about.
Some drive speeds/Times to Proxima
At 33,000mph/81,000 years to get there
At 165,000mph/12,541 years

Proxima Centauri is just at 25 Trillion miles from Earth. That's 4.24 light years and our Galaxy is aprrox. 87,400 light years across (plus/minus measure error) and Hubble has counted about 100 Billion galaxy's with estimates that Webb will count closer to 200 Billion. Space is a big place.

(all numbers approximate)

Stu

re first sentence........How do you know human style life isn't already there????...........We're just a small speck in the universe.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

The light will get trapped in the headlight reflectors until they are full. Then you will be able to track a spaceship by the trail of photons left in its wake.

If your vehicle is traveling that fast.......So are your lights.......So add vehicle speed to light speed and you would still be able to see in front of you.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

The light will get trapped in the headlight reflectors until they are full. Then you will be able to track a spaceship by the trail of photons left in its wake.

If your vehicle is traveling that fast.......So are your lights.......So add vehicle speed to light speed and you would still be able to see in front of you. You would not outrun your lights.

 

[SmithNut]

After a hundred million miles.....

After all this we'll find that humans - or whatever they are - will still be arguing what's better, the 9mm or the 45 ACP...

 

[Mercury]

You would not outrun your lights.

Agreed.
The way that I figure it is that your lights are projecting a certain number of feet in front of your vehicle. That distance doesn't change whether it's stationary or traveling at speed.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Agreed.
The way that I figure it is that your lights are projecting a certain number of feet in front of your vehicle. That distance doesn't change whether it's stationary or traveling at speed.

That's what they used to think about machine gun bullets on airplanes...

 

[steelslaver]

It wasn't until the 1850s that man first went over 50mph on trains. 75 years earlier our founding fathers could no more envision traveling at such an astounding speed than we can imagine traveling at the speed of light. Many believed speeds like that would cause permanent bodily harm. The speed of sound was also though to be impossible and detrimental for the body to withstand, Yet, that happened in 1947 less than 100 years after the 50mph train. When Kennedy said we would go to the moon in 1962 and most people didn't believe it. Just 22 after first hitting the speed of sound in 1969 and just 7 years after JFKs statement, man has hit 24,791 mph in Apollo 10 on his way to the moon and Apollo 11 landed on the moon, July 20th 1969. Plus, the Parker solar probe hit 394,736mph.

What in the world would make anyone think we have reached our limit now????

Yes the speed of light is astounding, But, never say never. We have said that many times in the past and always been WRONG. There maybe something rather simple our pea brains have yet to conceive.

Look at communications. The first telegraph was less than 200 years ago. Now we can talk, send video and data from almost anywhere on the planet with a small hand held device.

 

[stu1ritter]

The speed of light is 669,600,000 mph. (give or take)

:~)

Stu