Poll: Do you (still) believe humanity will ever get to travel the galaxy?

[Casual Shinji]

The best that we can accomplish is sending a smal manned mission to Mars or maybe a bit further, but that's it. Actual commercial flights to Jupiter isn't going to happen.

And I don't care one bit. As a species, humanity's priorities change throughout the decades. And maybe we've now come to point where we're going to take responsibility for what's happening on this planet instead of places our hopes on trading it in for a brand new one.

 

[BENZOOKA]

As a little kid I didn't like Star Wars or other space-related movies/series because I was too bugged with the thought of how did they ever get so much metal to build all those things.

I never did believe in it.

The insane speeds and such they travel at, where the g-forces should be shattering the bodies of the main characters, and you're worried they don't have enough metal? Don't get me wrong, I love Start Wars, but it just doesn't seem possible. I want to believe, and occasionally I delude myself into thinking it could, but certainly not in my lifetime. Maybe some small moon colonies, but nothing like "hell yeah, we found some new galaxies that we can reach and hang out in!" No.

Yeah, I think I was about 6 or 8. I'm so sorry to disappoint you.

Go kill the younger me. Swiftly.

 

[fatmrbunko]

it is perfectly possible to travel the galaxy with wormholes which require a tonne of energy so it will be POSSIBLE however knowing how humainty works odds are we will destroy ourselves before we get anywhre near that stage or alternatively the governments wont put any funding towards it ad it shall forever be a scientists dream...still hopeful though

 

[Dexiro]

It's impossible to say. Unless we invent some sort of warpdrive or opening wormholes or something I doubt it's going to happen.

 

[Ickorus]

I think people just think they'll die beforeit matters.

But we're quickly approaching the generation that needs space travel.

This, if we don't figure out something soon* we're all screwed.

I don't expect it to be the super fast travel we see in sci-fi programs but I can imagine us getting the technology to transport people in space for extended periods of time soon enough.

[small]* Soon being in the next few hundred years.[/small]

 

[Alade]

people said we couldn't get to the moon...just saying

That's the thing that bugs me very much, what facts actually spoke against this, I fail to see how people were skeptical at that time...

 

[Zaik]

We're a long way away from anything that even closely resembles traveling the galaxy.

So far away that it doesn't even seem relevant. I mean, sending people to the closest nearby planet when it is at its closest position to the Earth is a one way trip?

Honestly, we're short either hundreds of years of research or a real life mcguffin to provide some sort of infinite but powerful fuel supply or means of crossing vast spaces quickly at little(by comparison) cost.

It's such a long time you can't even appropriately grasp it. How does 1000 years feel? What's $10 trillion even look like? You might know what the number says or how to use it in math, but you can't possibly even relate to what it represents.

And so, I don't care about it at all, and if the idea was totally shelved outside of science fiction for my entire lifetime, I wouldn't be slightly bothered. It's probably better than paying NASA billions to produce obviously photoshopped pictures of painted balls and whatnot.

 

[Voodoomancer]

One day, we will. When, I don't know, but one day.

 

[Lazzi]

We will one day, In the far off furture. We may not even be human any more, and we may only reach one other solar system. But its still another point in the universe.

 

[Justanothergamer300]

When all of humanity comes together that is the only time when we will explore space to the fullest

 

[thiosk]

Theres two options:

A: Travel the galaxy (solar system), with humanity being fruitful and multiplying
B: Not travel the galaxy, continued population growth of poor people, run out of food for all the poor people, shoot the poor people when they rise up to take food.

I suggest A.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Theres two options:

A: Travel the galaxy (solar system), with humanity being fruitful and multiplying
B: Not travel the galaxy, continued population growth of poor people, run out of food for all the poor people, shoot the poor people when they rise up to take food.

I suggest A.

Um...how does sending people into space prevent poverty on Earth?

Are you going to make a spaceship fuelled by poor people?

 

[Conza]

Theres two options:

A: Travel the galaxy (solar system), with humanity being fruitful and multiplying
B: Not travel the galaxy, continued population growth of poor people, run out of food for all the poor people, shoot the poor people when they rise up to take food.

I suggest A.

I second the suggestion. But the question remains, how long? And will this incarnation of civilisation bring it in? Obviously I'm hoping it will, or there could be another great war, which afterwards new civilisation comes into existence, having developed newer better technology, accelerated by war... But we can always hope that doesn't happen .

 

[necromanzer52]

Faster than light travel will be invented in 2071 by Zephram Cochrane. Don't you know anything?

 

[manaman]

The more we learn the more it seems traveling the galaxy faster then the speed of light in the style of sci-fi always will be fiction. There may come a day when we make engines that are powerful and efficient enough that we can start sending ships out to distant places, but that day is far in the future, and will only be possible due to time dilation effects. It will still take hundreds of years to travel, but to the occupants it will have only been years.

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

This subject has been bugging me quite a bit lately. When I was younger I used to take it for granted that by the time I'm older humanity will have cured aging and would one day have reached the level of technology required to travel and explore our galaxy (think Star Trek or Mass Effect).

As I have grown older I've come to face the facts. Even if we do acquire some means to immortality it would never be used for various reasons and theoretically it seems to be impossible to reach a speed faster than light, regardless of the level of technology our
race has at it's disposal.

What's even worse is that humanity seems to have completely abandoned the dream of space,
setting even Mars, which isn't that far away, as a hard to reach goal and considering the
newest gadget which can access twitter "State-of-the-art technology". In fact, Obama
scrapped the whole Constellation Project and nobody gave a damn, people care more about
his god damn birth certificate.

I may be giving too much thought into this but this seems to be one of the few rare things
that I do care about in my life, maybe some of you share my opinion, time to find out.

Yeah,what are we gonna do when a meteor finally whips off Earth?Where is the back up plan?

 

[Light 086]

Theres two options:

A: Travel the galaxy (solar system), with humanity being fruitful and multiplying
B: Not travel the galaxy, continued population growth of poor people, run out of food for all the poor people, shoot the poor people when they rise up to take food.

I suggest A.

Um...how does sending people into space prevent poverty on Earth?

Are you going to make a spaceship fuelled by poor people?

I was wondering that as well. At first I thought it was to prevent overpopulation and strain on resources. However poor people will always exist, whether through bad luck, or bad income management.

 

[jailbreaker]

Probably. But we can't yet, and we have many steps to take before we can. We shouldn't look so far into the future when we need to deal with the present.

Saying that we can't because we don't know how we could yet is rediculous. We didn't know how to make a television in the 1700s, but we were able to do so in the 1900s. We still have a lot to learn about the universe.

Um...how does sending people into space prevent poverty on Earth?

Are you going to make a spaceship fuelled by poor people?

I would so do this.