How long do you all think it will take for the human race to be able to build starships like in star wars.?

Question

plus why are companies like nasa are having problems in advancing technolgies for future spacecraft and space stations also why is it going take a couple of centuries for us humans to become a space faring species.

Answer 1

For a long time there was what I called the "Einstein barrier" scientists thought that faster than light travel was impossible, so why even bother with it.

Now that there is some evidence that light travels at different speeds and is not a constant, Einstein's theory of relativity has been said to have been disproved in several places. Not being a mathematician, I don't know what that involves.

However, Einstein believed that time was a thing. Other scientists now say that there is no such thing as time being a real object, force, energy or anything. Time is just a yard stick made up by the human mind so we are able to organize knowledge. Because it has been used so much for so long in human thought, people came to unconsciously think of time as being a real thing.

If time is a yardstick instead of a thing, then I believe that someday someone will invent a way travel faster than light. Making something go faster than light - a particle, an energy wave, one atom may be close at hand. Making a ship that can carry us to the stars may take anywhere from twenty to a thousand years.

But if time is not a thing, it also means that it is impossible to travel forward or backward in time as Einstein theorized.

Answer 2

In the theories of Einstein, anything that will achieve the speed of light will become infinitive size unless we come up with a way to change the laws of physics.
In other words, E = MC2 basically means that the speed you have traveled at one point of weight (mass) would equal more energy released. If you reverse the equation you get a different law explaining this:
CM = E meaning the more the velocity the more the mass. So you get this:
The speed of light is a limit to becoming massive. If the speed is high being reversed of Einstein's law, you would get more mass, over the limit the size becomes infinitive.
Here's the equation for this (1-(V/C)^2)so if the velocity approaches the speed of light, then the denominator becomes 0 thus, if the denominator of a fraction approaches 0, then the size becomes infinitive.

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light unless laws are changed.
If this not possible, there are other ways such as worm holes.
Basically the way to get from one end to the other is simple to be honest except the building it part.
The Universe bends right? If you were to put a very heavy object out in the middle of nowhere, the universe would bend. If there is a string that can float and the points stay the same height, then put a football in the middle and the points come together, making it closer. So there can be a way to get to various points in the universe.



NOTE: The CM = E is something or an example and doesn't exist!

Answer 3

If our worlds people would all stop fighting with each other, and that includes local violence, there is already the know how and stills to do so.

The money we use warring with one another and on jails, etc. Would more then pay for us to begin to build such ships. We have most of the skills and knowledge already. About the only item I have not hear of being well developed yet, would be to have ships with gravity, so you didn't float, as you need gravity to keep muscles developed or they become weaker and weaker, over a short period of time. We'd also have to come up with ways to better dispose of in some chemical or organic means all waste produced in space. Then we'd have to have the abiltiy to grow plants on space ships, one for oxygen needs and for food.

Many people around the world already have these things being worked out, but it takes money. Look how far air travel came in just the past 100 years. Even since I was born, space travel abilities has rapidly advanced.

If we put the money that goes to wars, defending our nation and others from other warrring countries, the money used to control violence within our own nation. That type of money in no more then ten years could solve all the answers, build and invent anything we needed in order to obtain that level of space travel.

Sadly the world people love violence more then true lasting peace. So with things as they are, what little money is put into such advances both governmentally and privately I believe it will be at least another fifteen years before we even get passanger ships to known, local plantes and at least thirty years or more before we'll see people begin to have the abiltiy to travel for months at a time exploring space.

Answer 4

There are a couple of huge dilemias that stand in the way of that kind of Science Fiction travel.

The main problem is, we haven't found a way to reach or surpass lightspeed. Trying do anything that reaches further than the moon takes years at the speeds we are capable of reaching.

There are also several problems with traveling at lightspeed, even if it were possible. How could we handle the G-Forces involved with that kind of acceleration? How could we be certian that we wouldn't run into space debris?

Also, movies treat lightspeed as a better answer than it really is. For instance, you will recall that in Star Wars the Mellienium Falcon is only capable of surpassing lightspeed by .5, but it travels between star systems in a matter of hours. Our nearest neighbor star is Alpha Centauri, it would take us 4.39 years at lightspeed to reach it.

Another major problem is fuel. We have nothing that is capable of producing the kind of energy we would need to yield these kind of results.

It is not a problem with technology advancing too slowly, on the contrary, our knowlege of the universe is advancing so quickly we have trouble processing and applying it all. The problem is that the ideas presented in the movies are way ahead of anything we are remotely capable of.

Keep dreaming, though. It's good for you.

Answer 5

That's a great question. There's no easy answer.
There's problems with human beings and zero gravity, to start off with, since human bones weaken as a result, but that's only a small thing. In order to travel beyond our galaxy, a craft would have to be virtually a flying planet itself and capable of many generations of earthlings for the trek, which would take millennia.
NASA and all the other earthbound companies aren't interested so much in exploration anymore as, being attached to a money based economy, it's more important to focus on all things earthly, like telecommunications, warfare and r and d for other money interests, like pharmacology, disease research, anyone that throws the bucks.
I'll take a pot shot at it.
At least two thousand years, say, 4000 A.D.

Answer 6

In his book "The Singularity is Near", Ray Kurzweil explains how scientific advances will take place at an exponentially increasing rate. Read his book. It isn't impossibly technical. It's convinced me that we'll have interstellar travel well before the end of this century. Whether or not we'll ever get round the speed of light barrier, I don't know, but even if we don't, a few decades from now it will be possible to travel to some of the closer stars in a human lifetime.

Answer 7

This is an easy one. If the world gets too hot, we've proven that we can survive it because the "Cradles of Civilization" were in hot, dry areas. If the world gets cold, then we've already proven that we can withstand ice ages, and that's without any "high" technology. If the world gets overpopulated, it will, out of necessity, balance itself out. I don't think we need to worry about surviving the next 100 years. The real question is how to we keep the next 100 years from becoming the next Dark Age.

Answer 8

It takes more than a Century or even a millenium.....

The problem is the Distance, The force of gravity, Not being able to find the places to survive easily other than Earth, Not having Discovered the resources efficiently....

Then comes the problems like Scams, scandles etc...

Answer 9

1) It wont happen in our lifetime.. it may never happen.
2) Because it's way more complicated than you can even comprehend
3) Because there's no... oxygen, land to grow food, natural resources, survivable temperature, etc in space. We are not supposed to be a space faring species. There are no space faring species that we know of, and probably none at all. Do you want to know why? Because space is uninhabitable. Nothing lives out there because nothing CAN survive out there. We cannot survive in a vacuum without air and in -2000 degree weather.

Answer 10

I'm not a Star Wars expert... but if starships don't use oil, then never.