i'm sure you can fnd many many examples of this.
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and yet you post daily
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...Ion Drive to propel and accelerate over long distances.
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...Ion Drive to propel and accelerate over long distances.
How Long Would It Take to Reach the Nearest Star?
Double that time, to allow for slowing down at t'other end.............
Besides, I've seen convincing articles that say we'll likely never bother anyway: ironically, because of technological advances.
The reasoning goes,
Why would humanity spend a vast amount of money and resources launching a "starship" when, in mere decades and through technological progressions, we will likely be able to launch another "starship" that will quickly overtake the first one, rendering it both obsolete and a complete waste of resources and effort?
Those with the levers of power (as well as a sizeable proportion of the plebs too) can't even be bothered in putting themselves to any effort in safeguarding Earth as it is, let alone pizz-arsing about on fanciful joyrides into the endless voids of interstellar space........
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Like the tooth fairy and leprechauns I suppose.
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Exactly, who knows
A few weeks ago, when I set off, it was a dank drizzly day. As I was driving, it became foggier and foggier and I had to keep slowing down. I eventually put the window down to get some fresh air, and was surprised to find that the weather outside was actually very clear! I then realised that I had left the windscreen fan on recycle and the car had steamed up.
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its a good logical argument. A similar approach could argue that given at some point an asteroid will obliterate life on the planet or the sun will boil it, it seems hardly worth the bother. Perhaps more important to find alternative habitat - Europa for example.
Also, looking at the original space race. It was not about logic, but fear and emotion,
Not similar at all.
NASA have already proven that they can deflect an asteroid so, as with most things, early detection is key.
Trying to shove a trillion - tonne space rock off-course is a lot more feasible if it's 50yrs from impact, than if it's 50 days away.
As for the Sun, best estimates are 5 billion years.
Trying to mitigate that really is not worth the bother.
We need to use Bistromathics.
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So in film terms its Don't look up vs Passengers.
The sun will make the earth uninhabitable for life in about 1.3bn years.
And with trump in charge we will all have to sign a loan agreement to pay for the deflection rockets, prior to launch.
"...the nearest planet..." is still 50'000 years away from the nearest habitable planet lol....Ion Drive to propel and accelerate over long distances.
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OMG you are now an astrophysicist. Did that take 5 mins of google to become this expert
Humans will be long gone, made that much quicker by our own intervention.
Maybe Einstein was right and Folding Space and Time would make the whole trip much quicker, like stepping through a doorway into another room/dimension.
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