How long do you think it will be until we have the technology to travel through space faster? It would be interesting to have the ability to send a manned spacecraft to Neptune, for instance, without taking hundreds of years to do so.

Discuss.

There's so much to tak into account for space travel that I have doubts we'll ever reach science-fictions quest for constant C+. One can only hope I guess...

Well there will never be a hyperspace...sorry to burst millions of peoples bubbles

The answer to your question: never, at least not in our lifetimes...

Travelling through space faster is easy: build a bigger engine? But ion drives currently take months to reach full speed, and there's always the radiation problem.

i dont see why my effort is not put into space travel and such thing. it seems our planet at the moment has hit a technological, all we do is develop more consumer products. instead of working on ways reach the stars or improve the planet, we are making HD tv's and gadgets that will make us fatter and lazyer than we already are.

but on topic. i doubt we will see the sort of space travel yo are talking about in our lifetimes. this thread reminded me about the idea that we will never be able to travel fast across space, because if we go too fast even space dust could rip the ship too peices..

We're all tackling this space travel the wrong way. We need to build giant artificial black holes to suck the rest of the galaxies and planets towards us. Just like what would happen if you lifted one side of a billiards table.

TARDIS.

The one true form of space travel.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist. I'll add something serious later.)

Blah. Space travel is a big waste IMO.

probaly going to take alot more years

How come we can travel thousands of miles in space but can't travel a few miles under water?

Well there will never be a hyperspace...sorry to burst millions of peoples bubbles
Just like we'll neaver be able to fly like birds,go 100's of miles an hour in just a few seconds,or put people in a 2D perspection where they are in a little box. This has to be the crazyest idea yet wireless phones!!!!! I can go with more crazy ideas if you would like?

It will take hundreds of years and by that time our resources will be depleted. Nuclear energy will be helpful I guess but yeah definately not in our lifetime.

Just like we'll neaver be able to fly like birds,go 100's of miles an hour in just a few seconds,or put people in a 2D perspection where they are in a little box. This has to be the crazyest idea yet wireless phones!!!!! I can go with more crazy ideas if you would like?



compltely diff. level

You did not get the point. In the history of the human race someone has always had a ''farfetched'' idea that people doubted could happen 100% yet through trial and tribulations they did. Just because you can't see the answer does not mean it's not there.

Just like we'll neaver be able to fly like birds,go 100's of miles an hour in just a few seconds,or put people in a 2D perspection where they are in a little box. This has to be the crazyest idea yet wireless phones!!!!! I can go with more crazy ideas if you would like?

you cant do it using conventional means ie build a big engine, because of einsteins ideas on relativity. as you aproach the speed of light strange things happen, and basically you can never reach or supass the speed of light. the theories of relativity arent something you can just dismiss out of hand.
some scientists think we can travel faster than light by bending space or jumping dimensions, but thats a long way off if its even possible

To tell you the truth i read an article that said they made a machine that (in theory) will take us to a diffrent dimension. They test it next year.

Anti-Matter engines enough-said

http://science.howstuffworks.com/antimatter2.htm

To tell you the truth i read an article that said they made a machine that (in theory) will take us to a diffrent dimension. They test it next year.


Ok then. Let's see it!

Anti-Matter engines enough-said

http://science.howstuffworks.com/antimatter2.htm

Anti-matter is difficult to get. They can't get large amounts and it is sometimes dangerous.