Will we ever reach the stars? (Space)?

Question

For those of you who are saying: We allready HAVE reached the stars and have explored the moon... so what are you talking about?

well, im saying, will we ever colonize on a planet like mars or titan the moon? will we ever create starships the size of a small city? will earth eventually be over populated and have to have a hunting season for US too (i pray to god not)?

will we ever be able to live among the stars on a starship or planet?

Answer 1

All our spaceships ( do we have any worth being called that? ) go very slow. The nearest star , beside sun is 3-4 lightyears away.

Unless, we find out how to teleport, or make hyperspace jumps or manage crystal powered drives or create improbability drive or Use the psychic capabilities to lob the ships that distance, the only way would be to send people on a voyage of 5 to 6 lifetimes ( Might take 300-500 years) , in which I, sorry to say, am not interested.

Yeah, I like science fiction.

No! I doubt WE will live on other planets, although it would be nice to send all Americans to Mars. Hmm. "You guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."

Answer 2

Not likely. The journey, however, even to the closest planets with the fastest solar sail in existence will still take plenty of years, more than most people can count. Space is far longer than estimated, which is why a new unit of distance was invented to cope with the distance-light year. This is essentially the amount of time light takes to reach our planet and thus our eyes. The true problem lies not with the G-Forces, but instead with time. A lifetime may pass if a man jumps into a solar sail and flies to the stars; It is just not feasible to place a human being in a shuttle for that long of a time.

Answer 3

Will we ever reach the stars?
If you are taking of Hollywood then I may go there one day for a look but not this year.
If we are talking here of traveling to another solar system the answer is probably - no. The nearest solar system to ours is many years away travelling at the speed of light. If we could achieve the speed of light & maintain it {which is unlikely} it would take at least a full life time to reach the destination - so why try?
Within our solar system - going to Mars - living on large space ships etc - it is very likely but it would require a motive. What motive is there? - the cost would be extremely high and the benefits questionable. My thoughts are that if it can be done & I have no doubt that it can, someone, some day will do it but I doubt it will be this century because there is little motivation to justify the cost & risk. Some time in the future as earths resources are depleated this will change - yes - it will happen. When ? ~2200 onwards, I suspect.
Goyse.

Answer 4

It's highly unlikely. The nearest star, other than our own sun, is one called Proxima Centauri and it's approximately 4.3 light years away or 25 trillion miles. To put it another way, if you were travelling at a million miles an hour it would take almost 35,000 years to get there.

Much closer to home and within our own solar system it is possible that we could live on another planet such as Mars. In it's present form Mars, like the other planets and moons, is uninhabitable. They're incapable of supporting human life as there's no breathable atmosphere, no way of growing anything and they're affected by extreme temperatures. To live on Mars would mean creating a sealed environment in which temperature, humidity and the atmosphere could be controlled. It is technically possible to do this now but the costs would be astronomical and it would take many, many years. There'd have to be thousands of missions from earth just to get the materials there and as a round trip would take many months, if not years, then it would take an extremely long time or would require a large fleet of shuttle type spacecraft to constantly ferry supplies back and forth. Once established to colony would need to produce it's own energy, food and water or would have to rely on supplies being delivered from earth.

Answer 5

It is more likely that we will build cities on the moon than on any other planet. In an space you need a lot of sheilding from radiation and those materials are heavy and expensive to lift into space. On the moon the materials are cheap. All of the materials exist to make concrete and glass which is all you need to build a structure. Even the atmosphere can be mined on the moon.

That said we will never find ourselves shipping excess population off to the moon. it will be cheaper to kill them off.

Answer 6

To get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time, you have to be able to travel faster than the speed of light. Nothing in the Universe can do that.

It could be possible to colonize Mars, I do not know about Titan.

Answer 7

I don't know and if anyone has a postive 100% true answer, if they do, get some lottery numbers from them. No on can answer that with any certainty; just with an opinion. The answer would be science fiction.

Answer 8

if it comes to that i'm sure that we will.cuz if the planet gets overpopulated or wose if global warming hits harder soon than we probably will have to. but i dnt know if we can pull it off so that we can live on the ship for a while. mean that's a lotta oxygen needed.

Answer 9

In time, yes. The human race has about 4.5 Billion years to accomplish that or perish.

Answer 10

definately.