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Do you think we'll ever leave our solar system?
Topic Started: Jul 28 2006, 08:33 PM (7,187 Views)
Timi Hendrix
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I don't know, if we do..i know it won't be in my lifetime.
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I think we will eventually but not for a long, long time (if we make it).

We have no need to leave the solar system. Then the bigger question, where would we go? The nearest star is 4 light years away (i think but too lazy to check), that would require a hell of a lot of fuel. Even on an anti-matter engine, we would need a hundred gallons of it and right now we have 3 trillionths of a gram.
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Humans are fascinated with what's out there past our solar system, we will definatley find a way out of it. I agree it won't be anytime soon we have so many other things to worry about on our own earth before we can go out and find another. With technology today, it would take and entire lifetime just to get to the closest star. After the technology is invented, it will be even longer till people find a way to fund it, build it, and test it.
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I don't reallt think we will ever have to go to another solar system, maybe Mars or one of Jupiter's moons?
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One of Jupiter's moons or perhaps even further out like Pluto, may be our refuge in the distant future once our Sun begins to expand.

If humans are still on the planet in a couple billion years and if we haven't figured out how to move the Earth to a safe distance by then, or find a way to infuse the Sun with massive amounts of hydrogen so that it stabilizes, we will need to move.

Again if humans are still around by that time we will have likely colonized other solar systems. Those remaining on Earth could flee to those colonies and over time, return to this solar system and live on Jupiter's moons or on Pluto while the Sun is in its red giant stage. Pluto may be frozen solid right now but who knows, once the Sun has grown large enough to swallow the Earth, Pluto might be a pleasant 77 degrees in the shade.
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We still need to figure out how to keep astronauts from getting nuked during long-term long-range spaceflight. The guys who went to the moon were only gone a few days, the guys on space stations are protected by the magnetic field. Dudes travelling between planets are completely exposed to all kinds of cosmic and gamma radiation. That'll be a stepping stone.

If humanity is united under a kind of new Roman-type empire and focuses no small amount of resources on space exploration, I'm sure we could raise hell for light years around.
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I'm sure people will take the risk of getting nuked to go to other star systems. By the time we get to that level of technology I'm sure there will be a magnetic field or something like that on the ship to protect it from those different radiations.
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Yes, defintly, but not in our lifetimes.
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I bet we will :)
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If we live that long with out the total collapse of society? YOu bet; theres only so many places in Sol that can be colonized; most celestial bodies here are very gaseous and/or have environments that are beyond what would be 'uber extreme' on Earth.

And while those chunks of rock in space are still possible to colonize, it would really be more trouble than it would be worth. But then again, so would moving between solar systems until we make it at least close to being somewhat convenient.
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Until we decide that the South Pole is worth living on, then we can worry about Mars, because they are almost the same places.
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Until we decide that the South Pole is worth living on, then we can worry about Mars, because they are almost the same places.

People DO live on the South Pole; it just isn't all that an inviting place for humans. But in any case; how are they almost the same places? One has complex, multi-cellular life that is still alive, one is pretty much entirly ice, one has an atmosphere we can live in, one has more gravity, one can be reached by boat, etc.
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Mars and the South Pole are very different. Why does the South Pole support life and Mars doesn't? The CO2 levels on Mars is so high we would have to do something about that before we moved in. Planning ahead we would place our cold weather plants on Mars to get rid of the CO2 and get some oxygen on that planet. This is just my perdiction so tell me if I'm wrong but wouldn't that lower the temperature of Mars because it gets rid of the greenhouse gases. Another thing, the atmosphere would be so thin that we would have to live mainly indoors anyways.
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Probes? For sures! People? No reason to! It is impossible to travel anywhere.
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I still think we're going to blow ourselves up before any of that can happen.
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