Will we ever see colonistation of the stars and other systems in our time?

Answer 1

If we could ever overcome the colossal distances between star systems then its a maybe. To travel to the nearest star at the speed of light would take 4 years. We haven't got anything like that!.
With our present space shuttle it would take thousands of years. If someone set off today how would we know they have got there. Would civilisation still be functioning as it is today?. Would they be monitored by thousands of generations into the future?. Personally I don't think so.
It would be unimaginable, the concept way above our thinking. And what would we do if we got there?.

With the improvement and advances in genetic engineering though, we might be able to modify foetuses in capsules, bound for star-systems. On board computers could analyse a new planets atmosphere, then process the information directly into the egg. The human, perfectly adapted to the living conditions, could thrive unhindered, building a future colony.

Answer 2

No. The fastest man-made object, one of the Voyager probes, which is just now leaving the solar system (it is beyond Pluto, but not yet through the Kuiper Belt or the Oort Cloud) will take tens of thousands of years to reach the nearest star.

For comparison purposes, suppose the Sun was a beach ball on the goal line of on a football field. (American football, that is. Not being prejudiced, just using an illustration that I'm familiar with.)

Mercury would be a grain of sand on the twenty-yard line. Venus would be a small pea on the forty yard line. Earth would be another small pea on the fifty yard line. The Moon would be a grain of sand about an inch away from Earth. Mars would be another small pea sixty yards away from the beach ball. Jupiter would be a softball on the opposite goal line. Saturn would be a grapefruit on a paper plate up in the sky boxes. Pluto would be a grain of sand somewhere out in the parking lots.

Say you could run from the sun to pluto in a minute and a half. (you would be travelling at about the equivalent of a thousand times the speed of light.

You would have to drive a half hour to reach the nearest star.

Answer 3

You will never see colonisation of the stars as they are to hot. Our Sun is a star but we are quite close to it so we feel the heat. The other stars are many light years away and we could never travel that distance as it would take hundreds of years. However if we ever did they would be still too hot.
Now we might just colonise some of the planets in our solar system. Perhaps in your life time but not in mine for sure.
Check out the distances etc and the properties of all the known planets.
Could be a very interesting project.

Answer 4

I certainly hope not, as I have just been made aware that the time setting for essex county is in doubt and should take 12 years to unravel, at this rate we should be nearing the Moon in oh around 148 years, give or take a Earth Shattering Cosmic Event such as a Volgon Expressway that is planned for this sector.

Answer 5

There are plans to establish a base on the moon and even mars. The technology is pretty much within reach, but I think that it really isn't feasible until nationalism and it all it attendant ills (war, the drug trade, terrorism, human trafficking) is abolished and some kind of united world effort is established to explore space.
Space travel is incredibly expensive and requires a combined effort and pooling of world knowledge. It unfortunately isn't really a serious reality while 'developed' countries continue to spend such enormous sums on 'defence'.

Albert Einstein called Nationalism 'The infantalism of the soul'.

Answer 6

I very much doubt it as the US are planning a mission to Mars in 2030 by then I'll be approaching 60!

With the time it takes for the nations of the world to agree on anything about the next step I'll probably be dust blowing in the wind.

Answer 7

It really depends how you mean by 'in our time'. By 2030-40, some scientists predict that average life expectancy can be over 100. If that's so, I think there could well be a colony in our solar system- certainly there will be a colony in Moon!

Answer 8

Stars are long way off. Our rocket propulsion systems are no where near it. Even colonisation of Mars and Moon Might take us over 50 to 100years.

Answer 9

Not likely. The closest star system is thousands of light years away. We don't know of any habitable planets in any of these systems. And it's unlikely that we will have any means of getting there in our time.

Answer 10

At the moment it's impossible,as we do not have any mode of space craft that is capable of reaching the speeds that are needed nor carry enough fuel to reach even the nearest star to us (Alpha Centauri B) which is 4.3 light years away.