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2007-11-04 12:27:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No need. We already have two probes which have left the planetary solar system and are headed out toward the Oort cloud. They will go on and on for thousands, maybe millions of years. They probably won't leave our galaxy, though.
(Or is it three probes? Two Voyagers and a Pioneer, I think.)
2007-11-04 12:31:36 · answer #1 · answered by Brant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well first of all it would cost the US government Trillions in dollars to build such a rocket and there isn't enough rocket fuel to even do that. However they are building a rocket the size of a skyscraper, to send to an astroid. But NASA would need more money to fund this project.
2007-11-04 13:01:30 · answer #2 · answered by Plasma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would be the point? Missions into space have objectives. One of our space missions, the Voyager 1 Spacecraft, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets in the solar system is already nearly 10 billion miles from the sun.
2007-11-04 12:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by DaveNCUSA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or we save a couple of hundred of billions of dollars and use math to calculate how far a rocket with a few tonnes of fuel would go...
2007-11-04 21:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fuel is a sorce of energy only known to propel a object with a destination
2007-11-04 12:59:54 · answer #5 · answered by wiquedone!!!!!!! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would cost to much money and woulod be COMPLETELY POINTLESS. the only thing you need fuel for is to escape earths gravity. after that you would continue (virtually) forever with no need for fuel. the only thing that matters is speed. and our 2 fastest space probes (voyagers) are already out past pluto. they are headed for the ort cloud but their battery will die and they will stop sending signals around 2020, before they make it to the ort cloud. so unless we can make something go alot faster there is no point.
2007-11-04 12:35:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
EEngineers can calculate how far a rocket will travel. Why should we spend a lot of money to do that. Who is this "we" you are referring to.
2007-11-04 12:38:38 · answer #7 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somebody (us) would have to pay for building that.
We need a good reason to expend those resources.
Space is a very empty place;-{ what is the point?
2007-11-04 12:31:34 · answer #8 · answered by Robert S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless we had something monitoring everything around it, it would be a huge waste of money and possibly a raise in taxes.
2007-11-04 12:33:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all those reasons and then some.. including the fact that it will be forgotten about long before it reaches any considerable distance to justify the means
2007-11-04 12:35:06 · answer #10 · answered by Eadgils 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋