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Forum: General Talk
08-28-2015, 11:01 PM
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Good lord. This thing is still going?
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Forum: General Talk
08-13-2015, 10:54 PM
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Do you remember the title?
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Forum: General Talk
08-13-2015, 12:16 AM
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We'll not see it in our current state of genus much less our lifetime, methinks. The amount of time needed for interstellar travel would be so vast it would span evolutionary changes to our fundamental taxonomy. After the number of eons in space required to reach another solar system homo sapien would no longer be part of the passenger manifest of whatever craft (another topic entirely as Tom touched upon) we departed in; our very genetic memory would cease to exist in its current form. It would take 165,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. Living all that time in the alien environment of a space craft would require rapid evolutionary change for long term survival in interstellar space.
It would take about 30,000 years just to get to the other side if the Oort Cloud, the "on ramp" for the the journey to other solar systems. Travel to other solar systems is never going to happen, we are an earthbound species and need to wake up to that fact so we can start figuring out how to keep our home intact.
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