Q- Humanity's first interstellar flight pt 1

[xenathegoat]

that's not a human narrating. that's one of those computer voices. geez

[Helge129]

@xenathegoat Yes, it is a human narrating it.

[Helge129]

@intushabitat That's actually wrong. It would get there in a few years, due to time dilation.

[intushabitat]

@Helge129

Time dilation is negligible for common speeds. for that to happen a body has to travel at a speed very close to the speed of light. That's energy beyond one's wildest imagination.

1- Can matter travel at that speed?

2-Whats the record speed of a spacecraft? I'm not sure but I think it was Helios I & II 150,000 MPH

with these in mind , i believe time dilation in practice is surrealistic.

[Helge129]

@intushabitat 150000 mph through unpowered gravitational slingshot. By unpowered I mean, its engines didn't accelerate it to that speed.

Matter can travel at that speeed.

[Helge129]

@intushabitat I forgot to mention: Time dilation has very real effects. It has to be taken into account with GPS, else it gives wrong positional data.

[intushabitat]

@Helge129

Here's lorentz contraction equation: lo=l * square root of ( 1- v2/c2)

do the calculation to any given length and at these low speeds ull find it mathematically negligible

[Helge129]

@intushabitat It's not mathematically neglible. Light - that includes radio waves - is extremely fast, and only takes a fraction of a second to go between the GPS device and the sattelites. The distance, and thus possition, is calculated by how long the signal takes between 3 sattelites and the GPS device. The temporal effects due to the sats's distance from Earth and their speed need to be taken into account, or you get wrong distances and possitions.

[intushabitat]

@Helge129

I shouldn't have refered to time as a constant. it was just a joke.

[adelle0001]

ganda ng accent ng narrator!

[RollersPostulate]

Cant we just harness the power of those fucking useless Hadron Colliders? 

[GhostHunter1986]

now there trying to do this 100 years from now. ha they already have the tech they been hiding in roswelled who know's what the elliet really have.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@GhostHunter1986 You're an idiot, they don't have the tech. If they had the tech..the person who came up with the means to travel would be the worlds richest person.

[Th3Shadow0fDeath]

@AgrivatedKillah man the elliet are going to get you if you keep insulting ghost hunter's obviously very large intellect

[Methyll]

awesome accent

[bertazoid]

2154 ?? Ah shit we'll all be dead by then >.<

[TheMaster734]

it sounds like the voice was synthesised

[0v3RniT3]

we can, and have been travelling through DEEP space for sometime now(monatomic gold/elements) are the biggest secret kept from us. Hitler was workin hard to crack the possibilities. then when the USA(United Snakes Of America) foundout.. they did everything poss to retrieve this knowledge. and now..you figure it out youtube.com/watch?v=YAGzbYxH5G­Q

[Malc0rdswo]

I thought Pandora was a moon of Saturn

[flyingchimp99]

@Malc0rdswo fail

[Malc0rdswo]

@flyingchimp99 well it is...

[alienhddna]

we need the seg motor now

[xenoepist]

If the distance between earth and alpha centauri is 30, 000 times the distance between earth and saturn, and if we compare that to the distance between New York and Chicago how in the world would be saturn just ONE meeter away??? wouldn't that make the distance between New York and Chicago 30 Km??? LOL... exageration RULES!

[125RTY]

@xenoepist You are right, the announcer should have said 1,144,536 times the distance from earth to Saturn. This would still put Saturn 1 meter away, if you consider that the distance from NY to Chicago is 711 miles.

[Dudeness21]

@125RTY the nearest star is 93 miliion times further away from our sun than our moon is to us. simple.

[daniel246]

immortality is the only way

[Taper0000]

The problem I see with the alarmists is that they generally take a very small snapshot of time and from that come up with the doom and gloom that we see on the news. If research is done one will see that the planet over millions and millions of years heats up and cools down with or without man. It's pretty conceded to think that we could influence this normal fluxuation of the planet , But I guess it sells newpapers and T.V. time

[Aegius]

@photolitherland cont... There was a mini-Ice age from about 1350 to about 1850. What did that have to do w/human activity? Answer: Nothing. The industrial revolution of course began BEFORE 1850 during the mini-ice age and apparently the global temperature wasn't effected significantly by it. So what? & frankly what exactly will efforts to reduce global warming really accomplish? Not much at all. Or do you plan to find a way to block heat from the sun or Earth's mantel?

[Aegius]

@photolitherland What % of human activity really has an effect on the Earth's temperature? The Earth's temperature has been fluctuating throughout its 4.6 billion year history. We have been burning wood and other items for 1000s of years even before coal or oil. Hence, so what? I pointed out that from 1940 to 1976 there was a period of global cooling so scientists were claiming dangers of global cooling before they claimed global warming. The SAME scientists made such claims. So what?

[Aegius]

@photolitherland The global temperature has gone up and down since the industrial revolution & BEFORE the industrial revolution. Do I think that billions of people will affect the earth's temp & climate? Yes, but there are other factors that are far more powerful: the sun, the mantle, the oceans, etc. Our impact upon the Earth really isn't that great at all. BTW, did you know that there were alarms over GLOBAL COOLING in the 1970's?

[Aegius]

@photolitherland From 1940 to 1976 we had a period of global cooling. Were CO2 levels going down in the 1930's through earlyl 1970's?

[Yotashi]

I love learning about this shit man! Science is so amazing! This is why i love anything sci-fi based :) MASS EFFECT is the best rpg ever!

[garagepr0ductions]

worst avatar plug EVER!

[Zurround100]

He is wrong, if we (and its a huge "if") had a telescope so powerful we could see people and animals and plants and cities and other signs of an intelligent civilization AND on top of that the aliens sent us a radio signal (which we would have to wait some years for) inviting us with open arms to their world we STILL would have no way of getting their with our level of tech. We are nowhere near advanced enough. The best we can do now is get people to Mars and that would cost trillions.

[JackBlair2]

"Global warming" is a modern-day superstition.

[hellspawnds]

Narrator sounds horny

[goodatlinerider]

Just do what they do in star trek and it will work. kthxbai

[MyMindIsEverything]

what material is better for traveling at high speed then tha light?we cannot cross the speed of light,but there is got to be a way to travel in the whole Universe...maybe black holes.......wormholes......eit­her we discover for ourselfs or we will learn from other advanced races of beeings...and also....it is very posible that we can meet God if we are able to travel throu` Universe...bcs God lives on a planet witch we call Heaven

[funrizwan]

Our sun is like a single mom

[TheMarkOfTheBeast1]

Won't happen.

[RuleTheGamers]

@TheMarkOfTheBeast1 If it doesnt vve all die

[TheMarkOfTheBeast1]

@RuleTheGamers

Not for millions of years.

Still won't happen.

[TheMarkOfTheBeast1]

@RuleTheGamers

Firstly, humans are a species, not a "race".

Secondly, interstellar travel within a lifetime simply isn't possible. You have no idea what you're talking about, so shut up.

[simbakafiri]

@TheMarkOfTheBeast1 posibilities are there depending on if we can come up with a very unique source of energy to travel faster to an almost speed of light

[TheBlackIdentety]

@TheMarkOfTheBeast1 You dont know what your talking about!Look into modern day phisycs!After you have done that you'll have the rite comment on such topics.