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[CK16]

https://twitter.com/...467934835789827

Are we on our way towards creating the Star League yet?

[Battlemaster56]

No not yet, even if so I give humans the chance in 2456, at best and that's me being optimistic.

[Metus regem]

CK16, on 22 February 2017 - 10:32 AM, said:

https://twitter.com/...467934835789827

Are we on our way towards creating the Star League yet?

Now just wait, they are already inhabited by a warlike race that will want our water....

[Valdarion Silarius]

CK16, on 22 February 2017 - 10:32 AM, said:

https://twitter.com/...467934835789827

Are we on our way towards creating the Star League yet?

Not until self reliant fusion engines and these start to become available for public use.

[Plastic Guru]

40 light years?
The fastest outward-bound spacecraft yet sent, Voyager 1, has covered 1/600th of a light-year in 30 years and is currently moving at 1/18,000th the speed of light.

One way that's almost 720,000 years of travel.....Damn you Einstein!!! Damn you to Hell....you and your speed limits...

[Monkey Lover]

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40 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. And for those not familiar with exactly how fast light travels, according to NASA, it would take you roughly 44 million years to get there using modern technology.

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[Wiley Coyote]

[Weeny Machine]

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[Metus regem]

Bush Hopper, on 22 February 2017 - 11:12 AM, said:

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Or try to build a wall around Terra Earth....

Kind of like how Nixon wanted to build one in Futurama...

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[Milocinia]

Unfortunately we'll have destroyed ourselves or the planet long before we have the capability of manned interstellar travel or colonisation of another world.

Sorry to put a downer on everything

Edited by Milocinia, 22 February 2017 - 11:42 AM.

[LordNothing]

Probably Not, on 22 February 2017 - 11:15 AM, said:

We need Kearny and Fuchida to be born and invent the first successful FTL drive, first.

my money is on mach effect drives. they are claiming to be able to make f1-class (the engine the sat-v used) reactionless drives you can launch into space from the ground using nothing more than general relativity. or they could just be building a really expensive vibrator. it makes more sense than em drive at least and is based on peer reviewed science rather than the em drive which is some quacks invention and no-one has a clue if, how, or why it actually works.

its still not ftl, but mach effect would mean that mass isnt the constant we all assume it is but is a relative quantity that requires other masses to mean anything. this means they fluctuate. mach effect drive exploits this. as a side effect if you can make a mass fluctuate, you can make it dip negative sometimes, which means you can use it to satisfy the negative mass requirement of an alcubierre drive, provided you can come up with a jupiter mass of energy to power it. haxxor the universe!!!

me personally id rather have a food replicator that is permanently stuck on the bacon setting. because bacon.

Edited by LordNothing, 22 February 2017 - 11:57 AM.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Unfortunately, we need to figure out that whole folding space time thing first.

Speed is too slow, we need something faster ...well, plus that whole time dilatation thing related to speed is a real bugger.

[Novakaine]

Not to worry Space Jesus is inbound.

[Metus regem]

Novakaine, on 22 February 2017 - 12:19 PM, said:

Not to worry Space Jesus is inbound.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Man's first extended journey into space was a bit janky...Plus the in-flight movies were terrible!

Edited by MeiSooHaityu, 22 February 2017 - 12:50 PM.

[RestosIII]

MeiSooHaityu, on 22 February 2017 - 12:49 PM, said:

Man's first extended journey into space was a bit janky...Plus the in-flight movies were terrible!

TBH, I highly preferred the later seasons a lot more.



Anyways, I for one welcome our alien overlords that are definitely living on those planets.

[patataman]

- Unite mankind with the single goal of reaching the Trappist system: 100 years.
- Develop FTL travel: 100 years.
- Build the jump / drop ships for the expedition: 80 years.
- Travel to the Trappist system: 1 stop at 30 LY for recharge: 1 week.
- Find this guy using the ship's telescope.

Spoiler

- React to the emergency:

Spoiler

- Recharge the K-F drive in system: 1 week
- Travel back to Sol. 1 stop at 30 LY for recharge: 1 week.
- Realize this guy foretold it:

Spoiler

- Destroy all references to space travel ever created by humans ~ 20 years.


Phew! That was close...

[Felicitatem Parco]

Ya'll know that we could communicate with just a 40 year lag time, right? That's less than the millions of years we need to physically get our butts over there.

[Mystere]

patataman, on 22 February 2017 - 02:37 PM, said:

- Unite mankind with the single goal of reaching the Trappist system: 100 years.

Conquest, subjugation, and targeted genocide can shorten that activity ... or end it all.

[draiocht]

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