Do you think humans will ever visit a planet outside of our solar system?

Right now the closest star to us is Alpha Centauri, around 4.2 light years away. That would take faaaaaaar longer than the lifespan of a human. One could argue that FTL travel could solve it- but where would we develop that? As it stands right now, nothing travels faster than light. It is the galactic speed limit, and I personally don't believe humans will ever develop FTL travel. It needs infinite energy (something we don't have). If we can't develop FTL travel, we can't get anywhere other than interstellar space (ie not entering another solar system). Voyager 1 has still not reached interstellar space and it has been going for 35 years. Humans can get to interstellar space, yes, but we will never develop technology to get any farther than that. Humans will never visit any other solar system than our own. That is what I think.

Once we find the Mass relays. 

No, we were created to stay on Earth.

If the key word is EVER...then yes....but not for a  Really..really long  time.

No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

Ever at all? Sure.  I doubt it would be a two way trip.

Unless Goku has use his instant transmission to teleport you, no. You cannot live that long, even if you did you couldnt pack enough supplies.

We have many thousand years ahead of us as humanity. We can' t be sure of the limits to our knowledge and discoveries. I don' t think it' s impossible in the very far distant future.

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

MrPraline

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

MrPraline

He forgot the part where humans already left earth before

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

Allicrombie

haha

I hope so, I really, really hope so.

But, more likely in the foreseable future (like, the next few hundred years), I imagine there will be terraforming, exploration, and colonization of planets in our own solar system.

Not in my lifetime.

sure why not

No, personally I think the human race will cease to exist long before this ever comes close to happening.

Assuming we don't nuke ourselves back into the stone age before we hit mars, sure.

Not in my lifetime.Blueresident87

True a wealthy human only gets to live 120 years so I will probably be long dead before that kind of advanced technology will be invented.

I'm sure we will but I'll be dead by then unfortunately.

Eventually yes but not in our lifetimesJML897

Well there's a few ways to do that. Go insanely fast or go "slow" and have a ship that you can have multiple generations live on. I imagine we might, but no way we're doing it any time soon.

Yesthemajormayor

No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

There are people working on FTL travel and have some of the math worked out. Something called an Alcubierre bubble that would bend space time around this theoritical bubble using a substance called negative energy. 

Link

No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

Definitely not because

1) there are no habitable life-supporting planets in our vicinity pariah3

If we don't explode ours first, maybe...

FTL travel doesn't necessarily require infinite energy. A simple (not necessarily easy) folding of Space could theoretically enable a ship to travel Faster than the Speed of Light. It's a relatively simple process in the grand scheme of things and would not require as much energy as accelerating an object near the speed of light would be. Now are we any where close to having the technology. No. Will we someday, I imagine so yes. ferrari2001

No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

gamerguru100

i could understand how some find it fascinating to leave the Earth some day, maybe that is because you have read too many novels, watched too many films or played too much Mass Effect, that your brain cannot accept the reality that you are on Earth and you have been preset with limitations.

but then again you can keep trying to reach the stars in a civilised sensible manner, and no i am not talking about strapping 0.0000001% of the population of the Earth to a multi billion dollar rocket to land on the moon in an uncomfortable suit only to shove a flag on the ground and tell the world anything is possible.

5000 years ago.

"Do you think humans will ever visit a land all the other side of this vast amount of water in front of us?"

500 years ago.

"Do you think humans will ever visit the Moon?"

No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

lol moon landing says hi.

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

i could understand how some find it fascinating to leave the Earth some day, maybe that is because you have read too many novels, watched too many films or played too much Mass Effect, that your brain cannot accept the reality that you are on Earth and you have been preset with limitations.

but then again you can keep trying to reach the stars in a civilised sensible manner, and no i am not talking about strapping 0.0000001% of the population of the Earth to a multi billion dollar rocket to land on the moon in an uncomfortable suit only to shove a flag on the ground and tell the world anything is possible.

Call the scientists, gamespot has uncoved something even more dense then osmium.

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

tenaka2

lol moon landing says hi.

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No, we were created to stay on Earth.

GrayF0X786

lol moon landing says hi.

point being, you are an idiot.

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lol moon landing says hi.

tenaka2

point being, you are an idiot.