Do you think we'll ever have advanced space travel?
Gary-Oak
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I've been watching a lot of stuff about space travel on youtube, and researched about it on the interwebs, and I just wanted everyones opinions, do you guys think that humanity will ever have advanced space travel? What I mean by that is space travel has advanced to the point of owning a spaceship is a common thing (think star wars, mass effect, etc). Or do you think it'll still be entirely up to NASA to do all the space stuff?
What do you think everything would be like when/if this happens?
Sorry if this is a stupid thread, I've just always been interested in space.
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What I think is that we can achieve advance space travel, but I wouldn't expect much a difference in a few millions years (if the sun doesn't blow up first). Technology in movies look cool and all but all that may be false due to that we need some sort of fuel or material that is unknown to us. Owning a huge space station like in mass effect could be possible, but that would take millions of years to even get started. I don't really know if NASA is gonna develop these ideas to themselves, it would be too complicated. The only way I can see humans have advanced space travel is if we somehow steal wires or whatever else from alien space craft, though aliens might not be interested in us because our technology will probably be less advanced as them.
I don't think it's stupid at all
And yes, I think it's going to happen eventually.
NASA isn't doing half of the space stuff anymore because the government keeps cutting their funding. NASA suspended all shuttle programs in 2011, so any time an American wants to go to the International Space Station, we rely on the Russians. They were going to build a newer, better replacement for the Hubble Telescope but that was scrapped due to lack of funding. It's cost - the same as three days in Iraq.
I love the idea of space travel, but I don't think America is going to be the country to do it. The government has become too corrupt, and the people are no better either - whenever you bring up NASA half of them will just bitch about their tax dollars (the same people who think NPR is 5% of the federal budget), and when we land a ship on a comet, the other half will bitch about the scientists' shirts. Half of our potential scientists think it's better to use their math skills to calculate derivatives on Wall Street so anybody with half a brain studies economics instead of astrophysics. Its sad how petty and myopic the culture has become.
The limited lifespan of our sun means that either we'll develop advanced space travel or humanity will be wiped out.
Oh I'm sure we'll all be dead long before that, probably humanity as a whole will be gone before that long
We'll probably nuke ourselves or something like that.
I'm pretty sure the super-rich people will have everyone else exterminated before then.
If the sun blows up, the moon isn't really much refuge...
The sun's gonna blow us up before that. Hell a meteorite might hit us before that. We have a few million years to build a moon colony
Interstellar moon travel? >.>
I just like to remind everyone that humanity has billions of years until the sun becomes a red giant.
Loads of time.
Granted that we don't destroy ourselves in the process.
If we don't, we'll ruin this world and go extinct sooner than we otherwise would have.
Yes but the sad thing is that we won't be alive to see this happen.
I think it'll happen, but not in any of our life times.
Sounds about par for the course.
I beg to differ.
There's nuclear weapons, super viruses, chemical weapons, all kinds of stuff that could eliminate humanity as a whole. The fact that they exist makes it that much more dangerous for us.
Luckily for me my immune system is strong enough to withstand a super virus. In fact, my immune system is so strong that I can lick the floor under a urinal in a truck stop and not get sick. Not that I've tried that...
Depending on who you ask, it already has.
I believe the US Government has technology, that the public has no idea about. Why else would gave up supporting the shuttle, because IMO it became obsolete. Who knows how good the technology is, but yes i do believe we will one day be able to go to warp speed, and all that. Its just a matter of time.
Never know, who knows what the Average Lifespan will be in 50 years.
Interesting topic. I think it will happen at some point, the way technology is going.
I think and hope so, since that's always been something that has interested me. Sadly, we won't be able to experience any of it.
I don't think space travel will ever be that easy where everyone has a spaceship but I could see NASA sending out groups to colonize other planets eventually. There was a project where people were going to go live on mars soon but I think it got canceled because of how expensive it is.
Think about this though, people were willing to go to Mars, a world with no breathable air, unhabitable world. Just to go and be space pioneers. i think its going to happen. Human beings, have a insationional amount of curiosity, and want to know everything. It won't stop, it will never stop until we either destroy ourselves or evolve from humans to something else.
Eventually although there will be other technology which will be important if we decide to colonize unearthlike planets. For example, Terraforming.
An addendum to my rant, NASA is so neglected that in 2012 I found myself agreeing with fucking Newt Gingrich when he and he alone wanted to expand the space program and potentially work towards colonizing the moon.
Yeah it will happen eventually as long as we don't get wiped out by ourselves or by a meteor first. Hell I would be one of those people to go there. I don't care if I die in space.
They might still be going but im not sure. I don't want to look it up right now. But if they do follow through it will be happening in about ten years so we might get to see it in our lifetime.