Voyager Exiting the Solar System

[cowiz]

"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."

DA

Is it as big as my arse, or not?

It's currently bigger, but your arse is expanding faster.

[stripes4]

"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."

DA

Is it as big as my arse, or not?

It's currently bigger, but your arse is expanding faster.

Well. It IS christmas time :sighsm:

[stripes4]

Anyway, I want MY space probed :sighsm:

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Cog, you should check out Undercover Elephants "Deep Green Resistance" thread over at Ratskep. I think you two would get on like a.... Monkey and some Ebola

I am too attached to rationalia...I couldn't commit foradultery....

Probably just as well for your blood pressure.

He'd start sending me xmas cards after a few rounds with UE.

[Blondie]

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

[Don't Panic]

"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."

DA

[mistermack]

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.

[Ian]

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.

[devogue]

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.

[Atheist-Lite]

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.

[Santa_Claus]

Exiting the Solar System?

is a woman driving?

[Ian]

Exiting the Solar System?

is a woman driving?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"turn right at the next solar system and your destination is on your left."

[Coito ergo sum]

Anyway, I want MY space probed :sighsm:

....I have just the thing....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Anyway, I want MY space probed :sighsm:

....I have just the thing....

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