[QUOTE="lordtree4"]Alpha Centauri is not a distant solar system, in fact it's the opposite, being the closest solar system to our own. Also please do a better attempt at trolling.pariah3
Proxima Centauri is still 4.24 light years away so it's still very far away from my point of view. Even a flight from Haifa (Israel), where I live, to Vancouver (British Columbia) takes too much time for me to handle so imagine 4.24 light years. It's almost an infinite travel time compared to this.
The fact is that space is too far and a too dangerous environment for humans. We need to try and fix our problems on Earth first before venturing into unknown and distant territories.
I don't see why need to choose between one or the other. Space exploration has always led the way for new technological developments that have helped solve problems and improve many different aspects of life. If you simply consider the exploration of space just for mining purposes you could even make an argument that it would help solve most problems on earth by providing a source of new resources. With regards to space exploration and possible FTL technology just imagine the wealth of resources of unique planets that are composed of extremely valuable resources, just one planet made of a unique material essential for our future would be worth the investment into the development of warp drives. I don't think it's a development we will see in our lifetime, but I do not share the view of it being impossible ever. 150 years ago the notion of flight was ridiculous and exotic , and less than 100 years after that we had reached beyond our planet and into a whole new world.
[QUOTE="Dogswithguns"]Forget it.. human can't make it out there.pariah3
The environment of outer space is too difficult for humans. Also finding water and good food and medications in outer space is too difficult. There is also no electronics in outer space. There are no headphones, computer monitors and all the electronics high-tech stuff in outer space. There is no Silicon Valley in outer space. So everything will need to be created again and that's alot of work.
We can barely survive here on Earth. There are people who are homeless who have no food to eat and no roof over their head and no soft bad to sleep on. So traveling to distant solar solar like Alpha Centauri is a bit too far-fetched right now.
Alpha Centauri is not a distant solar system, in fact it's the opposite, being the closest solar system to our own. Also please do a better attempt at trolling.
[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]hahahahaha no sh*t Just like every other man made object out therepariah3
Warp drives probably cannot be engineered by humans because they violate the laws of chemistry and physics and especially chemistry. All physical objects on Earth and in the rest of our Galaxy are made of atoms and molecules (molecules are groups of atoms) therefore warp drives cannot be engineered because they need to be made of something other than normal atoms and such materials, if they even exist, cannot be created by humans, at least not in the near future.
All things in the galaxy are not made of like you say "normal atoms, and warp drives don't need to be made of "normal atoms", there's things like antimatter. Also energy is what would be manipulated to enable a change in the time space position of something, in that sense and how the NASA scientist proposes, one could create a field to do such manipulation without directly affecting the "normal atoms" that we want to 'move' across space. I hope that you aren't trolling and this gives you some insight into my fictional fantasy world.
http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/ People are certainly working on it. It's just a matter of time...and space.
While I do feel that college costs are widely inflated, I do not share the belief that they are all in for the money. An example of which would be a school like MIT: http://web.mit.edu/facts/financial.html , 2.9 billion in revenue and 2.7 billion in expenditures doesn't sound like the most efficient bussiness if you ask me.
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