What do you think the next scientific leap will be (re space flight to distant planets) what will be the?

Question

next great invention?

Answer 1

There's going to be a definite boom in nanotechnology. The next exciting thing happening in the next decade, will be the race to Mars.
Russia has already planned it and they intend putting a man on Mars before 2020. And Nasa is planning a mission to Mars to.
My money is on the Russians getting there first.
Don't know about stars - but possibly a fusion drive - because fusion power is almost in our reach. There's a fusion plant being built in England, that will use laser technology to stabilize the plasma - *fingers crossed* that it works! Then maybe fusion drives will be possible to take us to distant stars.
I'm hoping more for artificial wormholes - but that's probably a little far fetched. But one can dream! =]

Answer 2

Well, there are already plans for a base on the moon, and trips to mars (manned flights) via this base or the international space station. However, I think that the next scientific leap would have to be either a way of travelling close to the speed of light, using very little energy, if space travel was to progress beyond unmanned probes going to distant planets. However, there is a more pressing problem here on earth; superbugs and diseases, obesity, the lack of fuel, climate change, and so on. Perhaps only the problem of fuel could by resolved by space travel, and so I think the scientists need to focus a little closer to home for the time being.

Answer 3

I agree with nanotechnology being a mayor step. I was read an article in a magazine called Focus that nanonites could make diamond spaceships out of polution by firing protons and electrons into unwanted atoms. we might be far from this actually happening. Well it might never happen. A good step would be for humanity to learn how to take care of our planet. before we destroy more planets!!!
I think the next most important invention in my predictitaive opinion will be the human body computer simulation. that will stop those animal activists from stoping scientific advances in medicine.

Answer 4

Well until someone can get round relativity its a bit difficult. However I understand that a nerd has invented The Totally Warped Drive. Well she didn't really invent it it sort of invented itself. It works by conning the universe into thinking that is very very small, about the size of your basic solar system. This makes travelling to new exotic places in no time at all much easier.
Many physicist are terribly worried that time dilation may ,create paradoxes, that may well cause some really nasty things to happen. This of course is nonsense The Totally Warped Drive scares time so much that it goes and hides in a dark corner.
What will we find when we get there? Bad airport food and Tescos

Answer 5

Space Elevator. Carbon nanotubes make this a possibility. The hardest and most expensive part of spaceflight is the first 200 miles. Get the cost down to $1 a pound, and space will open up as an exploitable frontier.

Answer 6

The next leap will be when we can send a much larger shuttle up and create a 'Space Home' and create better technology to sustain life in space for a much longer period of time.

Answer 7

on the swiss/french border there is a 2mile long tunnel and at either end there is a proton laser beam and they will be spun towards each other in the attempt to find "gods particle" the thing that makes up everything in the universe

They hope to then find a way to make better propulsion for space ships using this and then hopefully travel greater distances faster

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/28/245828.aspx

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I think we are progressing to fast, not allowing our evolutionary processes to make the fundamental changes needed to adapt and survive. Obesity will affect 80% of the population, triggering health issues, destroy the fabric of the civilised worlds and cause the economy to collapse. Social breakdown is only 20 years away.
Its ok to have to much new technology but what happens to the millions who can't see beyond the comforts of their central-heated homes?. They become complacent!. They forget how life struggles on, taking different paths to reach the same goal. The next mass-extinction is just around the corner, so we had better discover planet hopping pretty soon!.

Answer 10

In space terms, catch the particle that can travel faster than light, tachyon?, harness the power within it, hook it up to a semisolid drive, add space ship, head out of the solar system faster than a bat out of hell.

Pure science fiction?

So were, micro wave ovens, nuclear bombs, rockets to the moon, satellite television, compact disks, and personal computers, and we have them all.

That aside, anti-gravity devices and hi tech fuels that create personal transport devices that can fly up to 650-800mph.
The end of the gas guzzling motor car by 2017.