when do you think humans will be able to travel to the next nearest solar system?

Answer 1

With the technological advances that humans are taking I think around the year 2300 we might be able to accomplish that first we have to make it to Mars which could take another 20 years or so.

Answer 2

I wouldn't like to put a timescale on it. After the first moon landing in 1969 people assumed that we'd have colonised Mars by the 1980s. Many science fiction films were also wildy optimistic about technological advances- take Blade Runner for example, which was supposed to be set in 2010. We're almost there now, and LA looks pretty much like it did when Blade Runner was made!

Interstellar travel will require a revolution in how we generate energy. To be frank, it's probably two or three revolutions away, seeing how we have hardly even mastered manned travel within our own solar system.

In Arthur C Clarke's novel "3001" (the second sequel to "2001") mankind had still not colonised other star systems a thousand years from now, although we had sent automated probes. I'm much more optimistic than that, but it could well be several centuries before we could even entertain the idea of manned travel to the stars.

Answer 3

By the end of the next millenium. I am hopeful that some technological breakthrough will happen before then to unlock the mystery surrounding "dark energy" (ref. Professor Meg Urry, Yale University, "The Secrets of Dark Energy", May 2007). An understanding of this new and little-known force may give us a whole new propulsion system, solving problems of fuel and speeds needed for practical interstellar travel

Answer 4

Well, i think by the time there is travel from Earth to the nearest solar system, we would probably have evolved onto something other than the human's we are today....LOL.

Answer 5

at the moment it doesn't look possible...

of course 100 years ago there were no heavier than air aircraft till ol' Orville and Wilbur came along

and then in the 50's it was thought we could never fly faster than 700 miles an hour...the "sound barrier" you know

then in the 60s it was feared the solar radiation would microwave the Apollo mission astronauts

and then it was thought FTL was impossible till the folks at CERN made something go from there to here in negative time

and then Steven Hawking was rolling around the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation one day; he went over to the Engineering set, looked at the mock up of the warp drive engines and said: " I'm working on it"

Hurry Stephen, hurry.......we got a whole universe to explore

and " it's filled with wonders and marvels to satiate desires both subtle and gross.....but it's not for the timid...."

Answer 6

I think we devoted all of our time it could be very soon. But that would just be stupid cause there are so many things wrong with our world like poverty and disease that i think we should focus our time on solving problems here first. Of course, people will keep trying to reach the other solar systems just to escape from the problems on earth. I think that they'll probably reach them in about 500 years.

Answer 7

It won't happen in my grand childrens' lifetimes. (Note that I don't even have kids yet) There isn't a worldwide interest in space travel inspite of the benefits in potential new homes and resources. There isn't worldwilde interest inspite of the fact that our current growth on this world is UNSUSTAINABLE. Also, and this is my biggest beef with space travel: The technology currently being used, just shouldn't be.

I'm sorry but we will NEVER get out of our own backyards as long as we are using rocket fuel. You just don't get good space-milage on a gas tank. Not to mention that liquid fuel is very heavy and we would need powerful rockets just to carry so much into space. We're talking MILLIONS and MILLIONS of gallons just to get to Mars and back.

Also, those shuttles are extremely fragile. One tiny pebble in the wrong place could cause a disaster, and there is lots of cosmic dust and manmade debris in earth orbit alone.

There is no protection from hardful cosmic rays either. Those get filtered out by our atmosphere here on earth, but in space there's no protection on a tinfoil shuttle. One of those can permanantly damage your DNA itself. That could make you sterile, cause cancer, or worse.

And finally, we would need artificial gravity. REAL artificial gravity. Astronauts run on a treadmill while in orbit now, and can survive in space for months at a time but they lose SO MUCH bone density and muscle mass from being in space that it takes them a lot of time to recover, and adjust to natural our gravity after they return to earth. So for any trip to another solar system, even if you ignored the rest of the concerns above, we would absolutely still need artificial gravity if we ever planned to go that far and actuallly have the strength to step on to that new planet once we got there.

Answer 8

I do not think humans with the present technological capabilities will. They can do so only if human beings can achieve tow things:

1) Be able to travel through the forth dimension.
2) Elevate into an up level of spiritual powers.

Answer 9

May be if they find a better one than what we have already. And if we have a differnt body which would be immune to the Gamma radiation of space. And the price of fuel required for the trip would be less than $ 4 a gallon.

Answer 10

Think of this. We started (earth and the sun) when the sun existed. When the sun dies this only makes me believe that we are going to create a new big bang to another big sun where we continue to evolve to what knows. I've learned not to rush it, we only have another what 5 billion years left until we graduate to something larger and bigger and then another 100 billion earth years after that (who knows). If there is a sun 1900x bigger than this one, imagine what they can hold for life compared to what we have.