Voyager Exiting the Solar System

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Post by cowiz » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:25 pm

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pawiz wrote:"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

Post by stripes4 » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:27 pm

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pawiz wrote:"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

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Post by stripes4 » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:30 pm

Anyway, I want MY space probed :cry: :cry: :cry: :sighsm:



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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:35 pm

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Post by Blondie » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:51 pm

I'm just glad she made it back from the delta quadrant. It was touch and go there for a while.

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Post by Don't Panic » Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:00 am

pawiz wrote:"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

Post by mistermack » Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:01 pm

Lets face it. We are never going to explore space. The nearest star is more than four light years away. What's the equivalent in human terms?
The faster you travel, the more energy needed for acceleration, and deceleration when you arrive.
And you can't survive more than one g for long periods, so deceleration must take as long as acceleration. So getting humans to the NEAREST star would take a lot more than a thousand years, and huge amounts of energy.

So when you talk about manned exploration of space, you're really talking about manned exploration of THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Any further isn't a practical proposition.

And there ain't really too much in the solar system worth sending a man to.
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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

Post by Ian » Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:07 pm

mistermack wrote:Lets face it. We are never going to explore space. The nearest star is more than four light years away. What's the equivalent in human terms?
The faster you travel, the more energy needed for acceleration, and deceleration when you arrive.
And you can't survive more than one g for long periods, so deceleration must take as long as acceleration. So getting humans to the NEAREST star would take a lot more than a thousand years, and huge amounts of energy.

So when you talk about manned exploration of space, you're really talking about manned exploration of THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Any further isn't a practical proposition.

And there ain't really too much in the solar system worth sending a man to.
Wow. If everyone had that sort of attitude, we'd all still be living in caves.

Perhaps I could point to an editorial which appeared in the New York Times, arguing that at the current rate of progress it would be centuries before mankind might be able to achieve mechanical flight. It was published the same day the Wright Brothers started assembling their plane in Kitty Hawk, NC.

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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

Post by devogue » Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:07 pm

mistermack wrote:Lets face it. We are never going to explore space. The nearest star is more than four light years away. What's the equivalent in human terms?
The faster you travel, the more energy needed for acceleration, and deceleration when you arrive.
And you can't survive more than one g for long periods, so deceleration must take as long as acceleration. So getting humans to the NEAREST star would take a lot more than a thousand years, and huge amounts of energy.

So when you talk about manned exploration of space, you're really talking about manned exploration of THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Any further isn't a practical proposition.

And there ain't really too much in the solar system worth sending a man to.
We have to try.

Anyway, I think advances in technology on Earth will eventually make it easier and more cost effective to explore space in the future. Who knows what we will come up with - Arthur C Clarke's quote about magic comes to mind.

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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:12 pm

Space is finished. It isn't expanding with stuff. The space above out heads is getting emptier by the year. Soon it'll all be gone, leaving nothing behind excepty - empty space. :coffee:
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Post by Santa_Claus » Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:07 pm

Exiting the Solar System?

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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

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Santa_Claus wrote:Exiting the Solar System?

is a woman driving?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:15 pm

"turn right at the next solar system and your destination is on your left."
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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:20 pm

stripes4 wrote:Anyway, I want MY space probed :cry: :cry: :cry: :sighsm:



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Re: Voyager Exiting the Solar System

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Coito ergo sum wrote:
stripes4 wrote:Anyway, I want MY space probed :cry: :cry: :cry: :sighsm:



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