DA Baracus Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 6 minutes ago, throbber said: If all the human race were to adopt this attitude then we would still be living in caves. The attitude of reality? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 4 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: The attitude of reality? It’s reality at this current time with the technology we have just now but our space exploration is still very much in its infancy when compared to the age of the universe. Have a little faith. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Just now, throbber said: It’s reality at this current time with the technology we have just now but our space exploration is still very much in its infancy when compared to the age of the universe. Have a little faith. Have faith that physics and human anatomy can be overcome? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 2 hours ago, throbber said: I highly doubt it. There might be some sort of bacteria down there at best but we will probably never know. There could easily be highly developed intelligent species down there, but they won't have eyes, so we can point at them and laugh silently, and make rude gestures, and they'll never know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 2 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Have faith that physics and human anatomy can be overcome? Well we haven’t even scratched the surface yet with our space exploration yet. This is the entire thing about the Fermi paradox as logically another planet could be billions of years more advanced than us. Maybe there’s the same gap between us and a maggot as there is between us and an advanced alien species. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Faster than light travel isn't possible and never will be possible. We'll take ages to get to travelling at the speed of light, if we ever do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 20 minutes ago, welshbairn said: There could easily be highly developed intelligent species down there, but they won't have eyes, so we can point at them and laugh silently, and make rude gestures, and they'll never know. You first, m8. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 12 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Faster than light travel isn't possible and never will be possible. We'll take ages to get to travelling at the speed of light, if we ever do. Light speed is overrated anyway, it would take 100,000 years to cross the galaxy and 45 minutes just to get to Jupiter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 20 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Light speed is overrated anyway, it would take 100,000 years to cross the galaxy and 45 minutes just to get to Jupiter. On the plus side I could get from Dundee to Edinburgh Airport in 0.00035 seconds. Then wait for 40 minutes at security. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 41 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Faster than light travel isn't possible and never will be possible. We'll take ages to get to travelling at the speed of light, if we ever do. There was a Professor called Bright, Who could travel much faster than light He travelled one day, In a relative way, And returned on the previous night. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 5 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: On the plus side I could get from Dundee to Edinburgh Airport in 0.00035 seconds. Then wait for 40 minutes at security. Then wait to until the heat death of the universe for your luggage... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 31 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Faster than light travel isn't possible and never will be possible. We'll take ages to get to travelling at the speed of light, if we ever do. What you have said is applicable with the knowledge we have available right now when there is so little we know about what’s out there. We only invented the telescope 500 years ago for example and we’re making these sorts of discoveries on mars and about to launch a space craft to explore Europa. It wont get there til 2030 so don’t go holding your breath but it’s still exciting nonetheless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 15 minutes ago, throbber said: What you have said is applicable with the knowledge we have available right now when there is so little we know about what’s out there. We only invented the telescope 500 years ago for example and we’re making these sorts of discoveries on mars and about to launch a space craft to explore Europa. It wont get there til 2030 so don’t go holding your breath but it’s still exciting nonetheless. Are physics going to somehow change? Is human anatomy? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Just now, DA Baracus said: Is human anatomy? Do you think people will still be using pocket pussies in a million years time? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 8 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Are physics going to somehow change? Is human anatomy? Our knowledge of physics changes all the time. Chaos theory caused, chaos. We find things in space that break the laws of physics as we currently understand them https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/bizarre-object-10-million-times-brighter-than-the-sun-defies-physics-nasa-says When trains were invented, experts said high speed travel was impossible because humans would suffocate and women's uteruses would fly out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 2 hours ago, welshbairn said: Light speed is overrated anyway, it would take 100,000 years to cross the galaxy and 45 minutes just to get to Jupiter. Probably still have to change at Perth Broxden as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said: women's uteruses would fly out. No such luck. Stupid bloody scientists 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 4 hours ago, Newbornbairn said: Our knowledge of physics changes all the time. Chaos theory caused, chaos. We find things in space that break the laws of physics as we currently understand them https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/bizarre-object-10-million-times-brighter-than-the-sun-defies-physics-nasa-says When trains were invented, experts said high speed travel was impossible because humans would suffocate and women's uteruses would fly out. This is the point I’m trying to make which you have made a far better job of but we are only just venturing into space in the grand scheme of things and if we progress at the rate we are going at for 5k/50k/500k years then who knows what we will discover. Various laws of physics are defied in outer space as well including things like black holes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 One of the ideas that's fascinating is the one about Dark Energy, the theory that there's energy in the spaces between things that we can't see just now. For example, space is a vacuum with virtually nothing in it that we can see or measure. But there's actually energy there if you look down to the tiniest scale - electrons (or more exotic particles) jumping in and out of existence accordng to Chaos Theory. Harness that and you've got an unimaginably huge energy source. It would be like driving a ship across an ocean of diesel - with unlimited fuel you could build the biggest, most powerful engines you could think of. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 19 hours ago, tamthebam said: There was a Professor called Bright, Who could travel much faster than light He travelled one day, In a relative way, And returned on the previous night. "There was a philosopher who, When asked how the universe grew, Said R equals beta, plus V over theta, All over factorial Q." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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