is it possible to travel all the way to the planet which is 20 light years away from the earth if it supports life.
2007-04-26 03:21:51 · 15 answers · asked by ramappa j 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Just imagine 30, 40, 50 years from now, the Earth is recovering from a nuclear holocaust and there is a spaceship that is ready to go somewhere , anywhere, as long as it is away from here. Aren't you glad that someone is doing the research now, so that there is a place for humanity to go to. But not just anybody. The people that will go will be hand picked.It will be like the point system. So many points for age,education,motor skills,sike test,you name it. This wont be no trip to mars. This ship will be going to another star. And if that star is 20.5 light years away, the ship will have to be a mile long, a quarter mile wide, passengers and crew will be a thousand people, and it will be years before the ship even gets out of the solar system. And a thousand years to get where they are going. Sci-fi to science fact.
2007-04-26 03:45:15 · answer #1 · answered by paulbritmolly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The short answer is no... We cannot travel that distance and we certainly couldnt travel at the speed of light.
To give you an idea of how long it would take using current technology..The voyager 2 spacecraft launched in 1977, 30 years ago and has only just reached the edge of our solar system. A planet 20 light years away would take Voyager about another 1 million years to reach...
2007-04-26 03:39:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very possible to go there starting now. There would have to be a group of people and they would have to have a huge amount of supplies because it might take so long that their great grand shildren will get there when hey are old.
Not very likely anyone will try and set it up. Most likely in another fifty or so years there will be a better way of prop[elling rocket ships and at a much higher speed so it just might work out that in fourty years they could get there. Again though it pjrobably won't be done even that soon.
2007-04-26 03:44:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As with the Apollo program, that is more of a political problem than a technical problem. Pushing materials outside of Earth's gravity takes a lot of energy, and consequently costs a lot of money, and the risk isn't immediate enough to justify such expenditure. People will only demand a solution on the occurence of a catastrophic event, such as a major European or American or Asian city being destroyed, and they'll be willing to put more money on it the greater the death toll. Until that happens, there's better things to use the money on such as "feeding the poor" (yeah right, as if that is really being done...).
2016-05-19 03:05:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We, at present, do not have the money and technology to travel that far. In my opinion, the newly discovered planet does not have life. Even if we did, it wouldn't do us any good. By the way, I am not an astronomer.
2007-04-26 03:32:46 · answer #5 · answered by cidyah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in the world did you get that information?
By the way what is your original question. Do you want to counter question on this piece of information.
Are you interested in astrophysics then wonder what is beyond the limits of this universe.
would you mind to learn about the anti-matter and its power to accelerate any thing very fast.Next thing how about time travelling. Alternate to anti-matter, there is nuclear fusion
For more information on how to time travel then mail me back.
2007-04-26 04:25:52 · answer #6 · answered by Auralist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the light speed 3lac km per sec..... then take the answer scientifically there is a plane or u can say jet plane which goes as fast as sound speed which exactly i forgot but can tell u whats xact speed of sound which u need to spare out ur life to travel if in group if possible..... am no scientist but always can say everythings possible as we are here in wolrd for to take our life to that great journey n lots more to say
2007-04-26 03:41:47 · answer #7 · answered by gchick78 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know if it supports life. Sure on the travel. We could use the shuttle and get there in 800,000 years. By then, the red dwarf sun will be very much cooler and maybe even burned out.
2007-04-26 03:28:21 · answer #8 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it is not possible for us to travel there. We could no more do that than Columbus could have traveled to the Moon. Our technology is not good enough yet.
2007-04-26 03:26:23 · answer #9 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they have discovered and it also contains water and the possibilities for living there.but it is not possible to travel 20 light years.in the future it may be possible.
2007-04-27 02:58:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋