Put on your reading glasses :cool:

[Hundreth 10+ year member]

Yeah, so if we could TRAVEL THE SPEED OF LIGHT... it would still take us 20.5 YEARS to get there.
Also, to reach the spead of light... an object must have an immense/infinite amount of energy... and the more energy an object has... the more massive it is.

The more massive an object is, the more energy it needs to accelerate. Therefore we hit an endless loop of something needing infinite energy... but it would be infinitely massive... to reach the speed of light.

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Who cares.

nG

Yup, then it would take another 20.5 years just to get an answer here. On the flipside, if it were possible to travel even close to that speed... the entire trip would feel like it lasted a couple of seconds for the astronaut, who also wouldn't have aged a tad.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, so if we could TRAVEL THE SPEED OF LIGHT... it would still take us 20.5 YEARS to get there.
Also, to reach the spead of light... an object must have an immense/infinite amount of energy... and the more energy an object has... the more massive it is.

The more massive an object is, the more energy it needs to accelerate. Therefore we hit an endless loop of something needing infinite energy... but it would be infinitely massive... to reach the speed of light.

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Who cares.

nG

Scientists have been studying a way to use the hydrogen in space(i think) and allow a spaceship to automatically refuel as it is traveling through space by collecting hydrogen gases. Of course how true this is beats me, but sounds pretty **** interesting.

Yup, then it would take another 20.5 years just to get an answer here. On the flipside, if it were possible to travel even close to that speed... the entire trip would feel like it lasted a couple of seconds for the astronaut, who also wouldn't have aged a tad.

you guys are forgetting about

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

interesting

 

[CaliforniabOY5 10+ year member]

i lol'd

 

[perfecxionX 10+ year member]

i can careless about space, the NASA program is a ****en HUGE waste of tax money that can go towards education in our kids schools.

there are MUCH MUCH bigger wastes of money by the fed govt than science and technology. which by the way accounts for like .5% of federal spending

finding other planets like our own is the first step in finding other life. daammnn

you guys ****, dont you have any sense of adventure. outer space is ****ing cool

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Fawk it, beam me up Scottie!

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

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[xtremebassjunky 10+ year member]

interesting read.

nice post.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, so if we could TRAVEL THE SPEED OF LIGHT... it would still take us 20.5 YEARS to get there.
Also, to reach the spead of light... an object must have an immense/infinite amount of energy... and the more energy an object has... the more massive it is.

The more massive an object is, the more energy it needs to accelerate. Therefore we hit an endless loop of something needing infinite energy... but it would be infinitely massive... to reach the speed of light.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

Who cares.

nG

Take a leap into hyperspace

A paper about hyperdrives won 'paper of the year' from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. A hyperdrive motor would propel a craft through another dimension at enormous speeds...a space propulsion researcher at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has said he would be interested in testing the idea!

In Heim's six-dimensional world, the forces of gravity and electromagnetism are coupled together. Even in our familiar four-dimensional world, we can see a link between the two forces through the behaviour of fundamental particles such as the electron. An electron has both mass and charge. When an electron falls under the pull of gravity its moving electric charge creates a magnetic field. And if you use an electromagnetic field to accelerate an electron you move the gravitational field associated with its mass. But in the four dimensions we know, you cannot change the strength of gravity simply by cranking up the electromagnetic field.

In Heim's view of space and time, this limitation disappears. He claimed it is possible to convert electromagnetic energy into gravitational and back again, and speculated that a rotating magnetic field could reduce the influence of gravity on a spacecraft enough for it to take off.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200-take-a-leap-into-hyperspace.html

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Sweet.... Maybe they have some sweet subwoofers on that planet...