Colonization of Other Solar Systems
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Colonization of Other Solar Systems
Most here understand that FTL travel is physically impossible. That means that barring some miracle, travel to other solar systems may be either impossible or at least unfeasible. Perhaps we could use some form of suspended animation that we've seen in movies like Alien. So far as I know, such technology does not exist outside of sience fiction. So, to my poll....
It is far more likely we will send exploration/colonization ships with suspended animation, but a small crew to keep things working in the begining with some crew being thawed out at certain times durring the trip. FTL travel has a realistic chance IMO of being developed in the FAR future, one sort of travel or another (be it real space or some quasi space or wormhole). But for the next thousand years we will be lucky to send a handful of sleeper ships.
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It is possible that we will develope not FTL but engines with enough speed to get to the nearest stars in a realitivly reasonable time, say 5 to 10 years of travel time. Colonization would be some what simular to the colonization of the west a couple of hundred years ago.
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GrandMasterTerwynn
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Re: Colonization of Other Solar Systems
You've left out a couple of feasible/semi-feasible options, such as:jegs2 wrote:Most here understand that FTL travel is physically impossible. That means that barring some miracle, travel to other solar systems may be either impossible or at least unfeasible. Perhaps we could use some form of suspended animation that we've seen in movies like Alien. So far as I know, such technology does not exist outside of sience fiction. So, to my poll....
- Generational ships: In fact, if we had colonies out in the asteroids, it is concievable that some of them would eventually strap on a fusion drive and leave the solar system.
- Colonizing the nearest starsystems via ordinary STL ship travelling at some substantial fraction of c.
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Re: Colonization of Other Solar Systems
Possible, using huuge ships that we accelerate using huge solar powered lasers wich remotely power the ships.GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:- Colonizing the nearest starsystems via ordinary STL ship travelling at some substantial fraction of c.
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