Re: [PLUG] "Nearby"

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Joe Rosato <rosatoj@gmail.com> wrote:

Rich,
Travel time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Travel_time)
An interstellar ship would face manifold hazards found in interplanetary travel, including vacuum, radiation, weightlessness, and micrometeoroids. Even the minimum multi-year travel times to the nearest stars are beyond current manned space mission design experience.

Joe

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:37 PM Rich Mingin (PLUG) <plug@frags.us> wrote:
Respectfully, you're wrong, Joe. We could leave NOW (well, minus construction time) if we really wanted to. We've had the technology to make a 40ly trip for decades. It's just so expensive as to *seem* impossible.

The limiters are the inefficiency of our recycling, and the lack of collective will.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Joe Rosato <rosatoj@gmail.com> wrote:
Considering "2001 a space odyssey" had us going on a manned Jupiter flight with HAL (missed by 16 years at this point), and BladeRunner with flying cars that park on top and inside buildings in 2019 (hurry up!!) - I think our Sci-Fi to reality gauge needs to be re-tuned.

I pretty sure that we will be waiting a long time before we can travel 40 light years.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:07 PM Ronald P Guilmet <ronpguilmet@gmail.com> wrote:
Given that the sun's lifespan is half over where do you think space exploration is headed? Are we, humans, looking for a place to colonize before it all goes black? I always wonder that.

On Feb 22, 2017 3:46 PM, "jeff" <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
Kelly Johnson - Skunkworks
"We have the technology to send ET home."
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