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10/7/2015 10:35:47 PM
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Sadly, even if we put a newborn baby on a spaceship and sent it at the maximum speed our technology allows towards any of these planets, it would die before it even got a fraction of the way to the closest one. I believe the closest habitable planet is 12 light years away, and 100 km/s is probably the fastest we could currently travel, so it would take 36,000 years to get there. Even if there was life on the closest habitable planet, it wouldn't really matter until we can invent technology to travel at the speed of light. At that point we could begin to contact that life If it's intelligent.
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Alcubierres drive
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If we could even get to a fourth of the speed of light, it'd be doable. Or even a sixth. It could suck but it'd be plausible.
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Edited by Britton: 10/7/2015 10:41:51 PMTraveling Space colonies.
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Ooh, interstellar cyclers. That's some long term stuff.
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Edited by Britton: 10/8/2015 6:23:37 AMDeep space exploration is long term typically speaking.
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Not so much in science fiction. Warp drives for everyone!
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Lol plot devices. But hey its theoretically possible.
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Possible, but very far fetched. I think our best bet is to invent the technology to travel at the speed of light before attempting to visit those planets, unless there's some sort of disaster on Earth and it's our last option.
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Options. We got them.
