Ezechiel
Paranormal Adept
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/01/5392035-ride-a-starship-not-for-a-century
Don't expect interstellar travel for another 200 years.... ahhh shuks !
Excerp:
Now I know what some of you are probably thinking: Maybe, just maybe, you'll still be around in 2110 to take off for Alpha Centauri, thanks to the kinds of advances in medicine, electronics and nanotechnology that futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted. There are several caveats to keep in mind:
Hidden in this discussion is real disclosure. If they estimate that we'll have the capabilities in 200 years then its more than obvious that, unless this universe is empty of sentient life, someone else has done it in our galaxy. Tag on a couple more thousand years of technological evolution and you've got intergalactic travel... In a universal timeframe of 14 billion years, we're talking a few seconds. Hope I'm not offending YECs lol
Don't expect interstellar travel for another 200 years.... ahhh shuks !
Excerp:
Now I know what some of you are probably thinking: Maybe, just maybe, you'll still be around in 2110 to take off for Alpha Centauri, thanks to the kinds of advances in medicine, electronics and nanotechnology that futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted. There are several caveats to keep in mind:
- First, it could take longer than a century to develop the technologies required for interstellar flight. Marc Millis, head of the Tau Zero Foundation, reported last month that the current ballpark estimate is 200 years.
- Second, just because the technology exists to go somewhere, that doesn't mean anyone will actually go. For example, today we have a "technology portfolio" that would allow for trips to the moon -- but the money and the political backing for such trips are lacking. (That's where the billionaires come into the picture.)
- Third, it might take a particular kind of custom-built human to deal with the rigors of ultra-long-distance spaceflight. At a weekend conference conducted at Ames Research Center, genomics pioneer Craig Venter suggested that future astronauts could be selected on the basis of genetic fitness -- for example, genes that are linked to better-than-normal DNA repair or bone-mass retention
Hidden in this discussion is real disclosure. If they estimate that we'll have the capabilities in 200 years then its more than obvious that, unless this universe is empty of sentient life, someone else has done it in our galaxy. Tag on a couple more thousand years of technological evolution and you've got intergalactic travel... In a universal timeframe of 14 billion years, we're talking a few seconds. Hope I'm not offending YECs lol