Ok lets be real about human deep space missions to other solar systems in the future?

Question

Ok say 50-75 years in the future a way was found to travel close to the speed of light and a spaceship could be built that could send a small group of humans to the nearest solar system but it would take 40 years to get there, do any of you really believe anyone in there right mind would volunteer for a mission like that?

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Answer 1

I have major issues with some of your question's basic content and premise --- but --- that, not withstanding ---
Yes, there have been and will always be those among us
that are ready, willing, and able to launch into the unknown
with impunity !! Just because any one of US can not get OUR minds or concepts around a matter such as this -- is definitely not a deterent in the least to those who WOULD BOLDLY GO where no person has ever been !!! Such is the stuff of the entire human history !!! Check it out !!!

Answer 2

Yes they would do it. You have to remember what Einstein said about the passage of time aboard a ship traveling at or just below the speed of light. Forty years would only seem to be a few months or a year to them while everyone on Earth aged 40 years. Every generation has pioneers and people who are just not happy with where they are. It's how the United States was founded. Let's hope that if we go to another solar system we make sure there not inhabitants already there this time.

Answer 3

Yes, I do. For the first evidence, I'd point out I'd myself would sign up in a heart beat. However, even looking beyond myself, I think there are many people that would be more than willing to make the sacrifice to see another solar system, or even die enroute, because of the dream of intersteller flight. There were many people who picked up and moved away from the larger society, quite often in fact, in previous centuries. Its only within recent times where rapid transport and instintanious communication have become the norm.

Furthermore, people are willing to sacrifice their life for many different dreams. This doesn't sacrifice your life (it does restrict it, but not to the point of real pain, IMHO).

It also depends on I think what is considered a small group. If you are imagining something like 10 peopel, frankly, I doubt it would be that small. Much more likely, I would imagine it would be much larger, say between 50-100. Yes, this would mean some serious manufacturing capabilties in space, but the implication is that we would already have that. I wouldn't even rule out the possiblity of something on the order of thosands of people.

Therefore, I think its entirely likely you'd find people willing to commit to making this trip.

However, I do think we'll figure out a way to get around this issue, and develop some form of FTL.

Answer 4

I think the idea of traveling to other worlds and indeed other galaxies is simply fantasy.. As the previous answerer pointed out even at near the speed of light (Einstein's famous "speed limit") it would take 40 years. And this doesn't even take into account the energy needed for such a voyage. People, I am sad to say, are infinitesimally small. The universe is vast. It' s sort of like ants in Cape Town South Africa deciding they are gonna walk to Helsinki Finland. Theoretically possible but it's not gonna happen.

Answer 5

Humans would not survive at such a high speed, close to light speed would cause a shortening in the direction of motion, do you think the human body would function if was as thin as a sheet of paper?

Answer 6

Sure they would. Look how many people went out on the 'Voyages of Discovery' in the 16'th century when a fair percentage of them never came back.

BTW....... Was that 40 years subjective or relativistic time?

Doug

Answer 7

What could reason this? it could could desire to be some thing huge sufficient, ie: some thing plenty greater huge than earth, like Uranus as an occasion. And if that's a rogue planet, it could could desire to have a rather extreme speed of its very own to fling earth out of image voltaic orbit. enable's take a Uranus-length merchandise, 8.6 x 10^25 kg, and supply it a valuable interplay for a gravity-help, so it grazes our place at possibly 40 5 km/s (basically-over image voltaic get away speed), overtaking us at ~15 km/s. Our closest recommendations-set could properly be someplace around sixty 9,000km.. close to the Roche decrease. Any closer and the Earth will ruin aside. Tidal effect would be extreme, dominating all different tidal impacts from 3 days previously to 3 days after closest recommendations-set, and by way of this time oceans will upward thrust to the utmost tides conceivable, swamping coastal areas globally. If it gets close sufficient, it is going to reason quite some earthquakes because it distorts Earth's shape like an egg.. basically like Desdemona. The crust could desire to ruin aside and by surprise subduct thoroughly, and if this occurs, the oceans will boil. At image voltaic get away speed @1AU, we could be travelling .7 AU / month; it could take us the greater advantageous component to a month to realize mars orbit, and a couple of months to pass into the asteroid belt. yet by ability of the time we attain jupiter's orbit, our speed could have dropped to a pair of million/2. it could take various years to make our way out previous neptune. issues could settle slowly into the longest iciness. (mars in summer season is almost 0 stages C). The oceans will freeze at a cost ~4 m/3 hundred and sixty 5 days, so as that they are going to take 1000 years to freeze sturdy, however the molten rock decrease than could take plenty longer. (one estimate is one billion years, yet that's at Earth's modern orbit, and with the moon's tidal effect). by ability of the time we get throughout the time of the asteroid belt, the utmost temperatures on the floor could be -34 C. by ability of the time we get to Jupiter's orbit, there could be oxygen rain on chilly days, and something left alive could have had to burrow down, between a million and eight km to locate a convenience zone. by ability of the time we attain Uranus orbit, nitrogen rain could frequently even have led to many of the the rest environment. At Neptune's orbit, the floor could be around 38 to 50 Kelvin.

Answer 8

probably not for the risk of it but there is always going to be someone out there that would want to so they could say they were the firsts its only normal to be the first well thats just my opinion
thanks
brian

Answer 9

potentially, yes. people would move in colonies, meaning that families would be going

Answer 10

Yes..!