Paranormal Events

[~Adam~]

You travel for a few years, but at home hundreds of years passes, it will be much like a trip with no return...

Using the original formula you posted if you could convert matter to pure energy (which I personally don't think is beyond the realms of possibility) a single kilo of anything could be converted to 9 x 10^16 J of energy (3 billon times as much energy as gasoline per litre), effectively allowing you to transport entire civilisations at the same time making the time difference meaningless.

 

[Godmil]

Using the original formula you posted if you could convert matter to pure energy (which I personally don't think is beyond the realms of possibility) a single kilo of anything could be converted to 9 x 10^16 J of energy (3 billon times as much energy as gasoline per litre), effectively allowing you to transport entire civilisations at the same time making the time difference meaningless.

Yes, small amounts of mass equals huge amounts of energy... that's how atomic bombs work. Nuclear Fusion or Fission is absolutely the way to propel a space ship over long distances, as the weight of fuel would become a massive hinderance. A huge problem with a trip to Mars is if you weren't prepared for it to be one way, it's a massive challenge getting enough fuel for you to be able to launch back off of Mars surface.
Transporting a large amount of people... enough so that they could reproduce and go on for generations is entirely feasable for the future. There is another idea, that I personally find really scary... which is to send frozen embryos... after a LONG time travelling they could be defrosted and allowed to grow, then brought up by robots on their new home planet.

 

[~Adam~]

Why do Aliens always seem to obducted red necks with low intelligence? You'd think they would want a cross section of society.

 

[ZamHalen]

On topic - Why do Aliens always seem to obducted red necks with low intelligence? You'd think they would want a cross section of society.

They respond well to the "special beer" once they begin?

IDK but everyone I know who has a UFO story lives outside of town towards the countryside, except we're Hispanic around here so I guess they don't pick us up.

 

[Godmil]

Why do Aliens always seem to obducted red necks with low intelligence?

The same reason that Ghosts wait until they're only one person around. Plausible deniability... you know, should they ever get taken to court.

 

[qqwref]

Yes, small amounts of mass equals huge amounts of energy... that's how atomic bombs work. Nuclear Fusion or Fission is absolutely the way to propel a space ship over long distances...

Close. Atomic bombs work on nuclear fission and fusion; from what I hear, antimatter reactions produce something like 1000 times as much energy as nuclear fission reactions and 300 times as much as nuclear fusion reactions. So antimatter-based propulsion systems actually have much more potential for energy storage than any nuclear-based systems ever could. Of course, containment is a little trickier...

There is another idea, that I personally find really scary... which is to send frozen embryos... after a LONG time travelling they could be defrosted and allowed to grow, then brought up by robots on their new home planet.

I don't think anyone would seriously consider populating a space colony entirely with infants and robots. Even if nothing goes wrong while they're growing up, you'd get some significant social and societal problems, and I doubt most of the citizens would end up psychologically healthy.

 

[d4m4s74]

They should invent a way to make "hypersleep"/stasis like in the science fiction movies work safely

 

[Kenneth]

Using the original formula you posted if you could convert matter to pure energy (which I personally don't think is beyond the realms of possibility) a single kilo of anything could be converted to 9 x 10^16 J of energy (3 billon times as much energy as gasoline per litre), effectively allowing you to transport entire civilisations at the same time making the time difference meaningless.

Ah, that, let's build a greate star ship, a modern ark, take it all with us and then go randomly out there...

Was I the first to realize this whole solar system works exactly like that? this planet is our star ship