I use to work with a guy that used PCP thinks the plane on the World Trade Center plane 1 or 2 was a hologram projected hologram? What do you think.
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We, as a species at any rate, aren't going anywhere soon. The weight and consequences of all the idiot things we have done in the last 75 years has come home to roost.
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Nasa spending Billions while people of the USA die waiting on operations Does that not tell you the USA and other governments have lost all respect for their peoples.
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It is physically impossible to travel at light speed. Even if you could accelerate up to light speed, once reached everything would convert to energy. Our only hope for intergalactic travel would be to create a portal.
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FreightTrain54
07/04/2023
How does it stop once it gets there?
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We already are doing it according to various people who have worked in the secret space program.
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*Without Alien tech to give us a jump start it will be 1000 years before we can get to a "STAR-TREK" type of scientific advancement. Or maybe A.I. can figure it all out much faster than we can.*
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We dont have enough energy to go anywhere near c. Its fantasy
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I wonder if you could use the clockwork radio principle to power a probe that wonβt be needed to be activated for decades, or possibly even longer.
Like a probe sent to Alpha Centauri perhaps, with Solar Radiometers on the probe to both activate the probe as it nears the Solar system its aimed towards, and recharge the clockwork mechanism like a giant self rewinding watch that never stops running.
The electronics would have to be powered like a clockwork radio, negating the need for batteries or Nuclear power, which will degrade over extremely long periods. This is the issue with the voyager probes as they age, despite the fact that the electronics and computers within the probe are functioning perfectly after nearly half a century of constant use.
The probe would have to be large and capable of making independent decisions, which may require a large amount of older hardier computer chips.
You could even go a step further, and have small landers on the larger probe that could be fired and directed towards other planets. They could be hardy probes, with a self contained non rechargeable clockwork power source of their own. Preferably a hardy probe to gather planetary data quickly, similar to the Venetian and Titan probes of the past.
The only issue would be having a secondary rechargeable clockwork mechanism to power the transmitter, which would have to be very powerful for the extremely long distances to earth. Storage of information until broadcast would be vital.
If Spacex can reduce the cost of launches further, perhaps we could have a mother ship probe that could launch smaller satellites like a Clockwork Cassinis, to examine planetary systems and their moons, as well as launch the aforementioned smaller probes.
This is a bit long winded and hypothetical but its worth thinking about.
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Steven Hogenson
20/04/2023
The only way we will be able to travel interstellar distances is if someone figures out how to generate artificial wormholes. To sufficiently warp spacetime to go from Point A to Point B essentially instantaneously. Otherwise no current technology would ever stay viable/functional long enough to travel those kinds of distances, let alone sustaining any kind of crew that was along for the trip. Generations spent in space is a great premise for a science fiction novel, not so practical in real life.
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Ronald Schultenover
24/04/2023
The Americans did not go the moon the Germans did
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Imagine thinking you can break the "Laws of Physics." πππ
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