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The question is how certain are you that you know what 'today's tech' is really capable of?
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2016-08-25, 01:17 AM #21Warchief
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2016-08-25, 01:35 AM #22The Undying
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Maybe once we build AIs and they go through the "singularity" where they learn to program and improve themselves, maybe they will become smart enough to create FTL travel. The singularity shouldn't be too far off.
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2016-08-25, 03:56 AM #23Titan
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I liked that book, but after reading camoflage I haven't read another one of his books. That one was so bad that I'm not sure he's got another good book in him. It was painful.
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2016-08-25, 06:21 AM #24Old God
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But... how do you send the information back ?
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2016-08-25, 07:40 AM #25Old God
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Only 18,000 years? Nothing anti aging technology won't fix. Originally Posted by Nakloh
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2016-08-25, 07:45 AM #26Banned
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Current tech is barely going to ISS and back. Going to another star is way beyond "current tech"...
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2016-08-25, 08:06 AM #27DeletedThose humans thinking that "money" is real... what the fuck, are you serious ? Originally Posted by Thoughtcrime
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2016-08-25, 08:09 AM #28DeletedCompletely discounting the gravitational pull of different bodies in space of course and Einstein's theory of relativity. Originally Posted by alzoron
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2016-08-25, 09:47 AM #29Deleted
Well... Laser sails could be built in 20-25 years, and get there in about 25 years, and send back data in about 4 years if I remember correctly was just reading yesterday.
Thats not about sending people though. Not yet at least.It involves shining a powerful laser beam on a large "sail" to push the spacecraft forward. The concept is simple, but has the potential to generate very high velocities up to half the speed of light and beyond. Milner's tiny craft, each weighing less than a gram, would be accelerated to 20% of light speed, making it possible to reach Proxima Centauri in 20 to 25 years.
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