How long will it be before interplanetary travel is feasible and the negative particle engines are fired up and ready to go?
2007-12-22 14:07:10 · 15 answers · asked by Peter 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I didn't want to know whether or not we'd ruined the planet. I shouldn't have mentioned planet ruling. I'm a bit disappointed, no-one talked about the instability of negative particles.
2007-12-23 05:36:05 · update #1
Space exploration that far is many many years ahead - if ever!..
2007-12-22 19:58:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, for the next 100 or so years, our resources are going to have to focus on retaining what we've already developed. The transition from the Age of Oil to the next age (whatever it is) will need all our scientific energy.
However, I do believe our research into alternative energy will have dramatic crossover into space exploration.
Dramatic break throughs in science are not predictable and even theoretical break throughs require the leap to engineering. Einstein's no good without an Oppenheimer.
Who knows it may be next week.
2007-12-22 14:35:27 · answer #2 · answered by nathan f 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its intersting that we as humans consider the concept of 'ruining' the planet. In a way, it's a rather arrogant standpoint.
Other than planting a bomb that would quite literally blow the planet to smithereens, we cannot 'ruin' it. We can change it, moderately or dramatically - the Earth would cope, as it has done with many many different naturally occuring climate changes. It is simply that WE wouldn't cope (or, to be fair, other living creatures), that we consider the Earth to be ruined.
A more accurate term would be 'changed beyond human acceptance'. The Earth is tough, it can deal with a sulphur-heavy atmosphere and a landscape of boiling pollution, it's all just part of its rich historic tapestry. It'll put itself right in the end, just without us around is all.
2007-12-22 14:14:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Angry Bernard. Last summer I was visiting a friend in Seattle and he has an interesting take on the whole global warming issue. He believes that the earth has been through multiple cyclical phases of ice ages followed by an atmosphere that gradually gave way to life, and then became warm, melted the icecaps, covering the earth in water with a gradually cooling and an ice age, then a gradual warming and the entire process repeating itself.
The evolution that Darwin spoke of might be thought of as one period in the earths evolution where homosapiens populated the continents. I know this sounds a little far fetched but it might also explain the abundance of oil (decayed plant/animal life) at increasing depth beneath the earth's surface.
Just a theory...
2007-12-22 14:23:05 · answer #4 · answered by Turkish 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The noblest purpose for politics is to kill all of the planet-ruiners on this planet before we gain another. Then we, our lessons learned, can live in harmony with nature's balance and laws. However let us not make the mistake of thinking that we can "educate" the planet-ruining tendencies out of our race. No, that is quite impossible. We must apply some ruthless eugenics to ensure that the ruiners don't breed at all, while the better sorts breed sufficiently fast to control the ruiners.
2007-12-22 15:13:36 · answer #5 · answered by elohimself 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have NOT ruined our planet. It will support us well for many thousands or millions of years. But space based resources will become more and more important to us, like weather, communication and navigation satellites are now. But colonizing other planets is hundreds of years in the future, at least.
2007-12-22 14:43:04 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well after the Americans faked the moon landing (where are the remnants of space vehicles on the moon?) and the Russians decided it was too risky just hold your breath as all anyone is willing to do is go to the space station and sit there for months.
Mayebe 5 years. It costs a lot and the world is going into recession.
Keep your fingers crossed and 2012.
2007-12-22 14:15:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No more than 70 to 100 years.
2007-12-22 14:22:02 · answer #8 · answered by Asker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
interplnetary travel is here .While manned interplanetary travel has not yet been achieved.a trip to Mars is probably feasible, even with chemical rocket propulsion, and could probably be achieved within a decade
2007-12-22 14:19:05 · answer #9 · answered by mr perfect 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not yet but our planet will be in financial debt all over the world that could be the reason of a global catastropy in 2012.
2007-12-22 20:38:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry ! When mother nature is fed up ! She will clean up !
Shes done it before, and shell do it again.
As far as the negative particle engines, well who says we
don't have them now ?
2007-12-22 14:16:13 · answer #11 · answered by bigfred1954 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋