Is the idea that mankind will someday have the technology to travel to other solar systems so far out there..?

Question

That you find it even hard to imagine?

Answer 1

no technologhy increases at such an alarming that its almost pointless to buy the new stuff cause in 3 months its old.  but as far as space travel goes they work on theories every day to make it possible.  but even traveling a near the speed of light would take 20 years to get to a star with planets... but would also have crazy physics based repercussions for the travelers.... according to einstien. but as long as humans have been around they have looked up to the skys and as long as we keep that trend we just might make it out of this solar system....

Answer 2

I would say it is far out there. We would need a space ship capable of traveling at light speed to get to the nearest observed solar system which is over 4 light years away. Which means that it would take 4 years to get there even traveling at light speed. And humans probably wouldn't even want to go on this mission because of its dangers, I would think it would be up to probes. But I think that this is far into the future. But I do believe that someday we will be able to accomplish these tasks but I doubt it will be my lifetime.

Answer 3

Not at all. Just one hundred and two years ago airplanes (heavier than air) vehicals were deemed impossible.

We are only limited by our imagination.

Answer 4

absolutely not, in fact I would be surprised if we didn't. Over the past 80 years we have gone from being able to launch a 5 pound rocket 100 feet in the air to a 6,699,000 pound rocket to the moon, and launching satellites and delicate rovers to other planets! I bet in the next 100 years, we will land on Mars, maybe withing 50.

Answer 5

I think it's presumptuous of scientists to say that faster than light travel will always be impossible. There remains a very great deal about the universe and how it operates that we humans just don't know. I like to think that someday, perhaps sooner than we think, a way to beat the universal speed limit will be found. Time will tell.

Answer 6

It's not a wild idea at all. It's also a very pertinent question. I'm surprised at how often I hear scientists (especially astronomers/astrophysicists) dismiss the very concept of interstellar travel. I am well aware of the enormous technological challenges involved in sending craft even to our nearest stellar neighbours. Having said that, it would be as presumptuous of us to claim that our descendants thousands of years from now would not have figured out how to achieve this goal, as it would have been of the ancient Egyptians to scoff at the idea of twentieth century Americans landing on the moon.

Answer 7

I don't find the notion so far out as to defy imagination.  The book I reference was written in the 1980s and contains serious proposals for technological directions in achieving interstellar flight.

The energy requirements of relativistic speeds remain a technical challenge.  Causality in FTL travel remains a theoretical challenge.  Duration in space (i.e., how to eat and breathe and avoid radiation) remains a technical challenge.  We don't have good answers for these yet, but we press on a bit at a time.

One of the Apollo astronauts said "Man must explore."  The human race is driven by its nature to seek out, well, new life and new civilizations and to boldly go where it hasn't gone before.  As long as that spirit remains alive and well, we'll continue tackling the requirements until we do it.

Answer 8

no its not but mankind has not found the reason to yet so the motivation is not there look at the space race less than ten years and we were on the moon we stopped going because we thought it was pointless..

suprisingly if you seen the disney movie wall.e mankind is living in a gaint space station fat as hel because there to lazy to do anything and that why the planet was destroyed causing them to leave.. under same circumstances it could be the same here and then money wont be and issue now distance creates a problem nobody who takes of to another solar system will make it yet but they're decendants will

Answer 9

We have that technology already, but not the motivation or the money to do it.

Google for Project Daedalus or take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Dae...

Answer 10

Not unless teleportation becomes a reality where a person will be able to bend time and space so as to move from one place to another instantaneously. Developing ships that travel at lihgtspeed may not help much becase some solar systems are hundreds of light years away

Answer 11

It is possible but considering the huge amount of time to get there, we would be dead already by the time we get there unless we would put our self's in a comma until we arrive.  

Answer 12

Yes I do. It's as "out there" as teletransportation and time machines.

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We are puny little creatures but we don't know our limits. We know them but our imaginations keep getting in the way.  The laws of physics that are written in stone will not be circumvented.  Not in a hundred years and not in a thousand. Interstellar space travel is not possible.  So far our fastest craft (Voyager) traveling at 39,000 mph (that's NY to LA in 4 min) would take 70,000 years to reach the nearest star system.  Even if we could develope craft that go ten times faster than that we would be a long way of achieving the appoximately  67 million mph needed for light speed.  Humans will never travel beyond the borders of our solar system. Other than exploration there is actually no need to go.  Our Moon is just airless and just as dead as any world or body we could hope to colonize.

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