Extraterrestrial life: do you believe?

#41

Isn’t the nearest star Proxima Centauri 4.22 lightyears away? (39,896,955,912,159 kilometers)

#42

You’re not accounting for time dilation. I’m disappointed in you.

Also, we don’t even need to send people. The Soviets were doing this in 1970:

I believe firmly in developing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft#Von_Neumann_probes

#43

interesting

#44

I’m starting to think you’re a soviet fanboy. I like that.

Anyways, I doubt going to space would even benefit us and I think everything that is sent to Mars to search for life is a total waste of time and money. Finding life on other planets is useless because we have bigger problems right now and we’d go extinct one way or another, just like everything else. And before someone mentions cockroaches, I said one way or another. That means the solar system blowing up or something counts too.

#45

The solar system blowing up? :hmph:

#46

who knows, nothing lasts forever

#47

Only a supernova could do such a thing, but you don’t have to worry about that because our Sun won’t explode.

#48

What about any other sun near enough to wipe us out in its explosion’s shockwave?

#49
#50

Whow… next time I wanna be right no matter what I am saying, I will remember to add “or something” to my line. That way nobody can say anything against what I have said. Awesome! :awesome:

#51

rofl or something

#52

nope.

nope. all the closest stars aren’t even almost big enough.

you are a complete and total imbecile.

yep. and the suggestion of sending people and having them reproduce during the trip obviously won’t happen because it’s ethically retarded.

#53

Wouldn’t work anyway, there’s no way only a few people could live together in a small space for so long. They’d probably go nuts after a few years. It would be far more logical to send probes.

#54

well obviously they would take measures to prevent that. but yes, it’s far too risky, and like i said it’s terrible to force the children of the original people to endure that when they had no say in it. i know some of our satellites have left the solar system, but the closest voyager will come to a star will be about 2 light years in 40,000 years and obviously it would have stopped functioning and sending signals back by then.

#55

Wow! I support this.

#56

I’m sorry to disappoint you, but a time dilation has nothing to do with it. Both reference frames - traveler’s and distance star’s are symmetrical, so if traveler moved with a speed of light (which is impossible btw), that would mean that the star would move toward the traveler with a speed of light too, so for example the traveler would have aged by 4.22 years by the time he would get to Proxima Centauri. 8)

Probably people who lived centuries (decades?) ago would say the same thing about in vitro fertilization if they heard about it.

#57

uh. forcing hundreds of generations of unwilling people to live a horrible, difficult life in space cut off from the majority of humanity and earth’s luxuries to achieve a goal they may not even be interested in that they were forced into because their parents volunteered =/= not being born because of fucking

#58

Unless…

:3

#59

Jeannotvb, the same thing I had in mind :smiley:

#60

that does not eliminate the fact that you are forcing people who may not be willing to fulfill a mission that may mean nothing to them, and could mean a horrible death if the slightest thing went wrong. you have to accept that risk to go into space, but someone born there doesn’t have a choice. again, it’s ethically retarded.

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