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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
and you don't have to go very far up the spiral arm before the view of the rest of the univers is blotted out ...making exploring other parts of the universe even harder
so ...we manage to travel at the speed of light ...which way do you point your craft in the hope of finding somewhere suitable?
the next galaxy would take five million years to reach at the speed of light.
First was moon, which started as an experimental colony, then grew into an economic base with space rovers / launching pad where they shipped things back to earth. Then they sent a probe to Mars (i.e. like the moon lander) to have a lookie. Was all good. A couple of years later they go back with a massive colony ship (well, not massive, but pretty big, basically it landed on the surface and could drive around but they choose a position for it and inflate a big balloon for lots of plants and a small habitat, supporting upto 20 people.
Then they sent ships out to the asteroid belt to tow asteroids back as they are rich with different resources. There are iron asteroids, water asteroids and some other one
Then in the end they all get fucked over because of a religious movement on Earth. Pretty good actually
That's interesting. Saying as light is the fastest thing in the universe, do you think it's possible that there's a super super super race of beings millions upon millions of light years away sent a craft in our direction at close to the speed of light? They could have sent it yesterday, or 10 million years ago, it could land tomorrow, or 10 million years time.
so any inteligent race out there will know we are here.
the thing is ...we have spent billions on tryoing to find an inteligent signal coming from anywhere ...silence.
As for energy, this would be obtained in several forms. Solar panels, for when passing through solar systems, can be an effective method of passive power gain. However, supplies for fusion would need to be harvested eventually, hopefully at this time advanced scanners (a la star trek) would be able to isolate where this was. Thirdly, a solar scoop at the front, which would collect matter, mostly which is radioactive (hence can be used to produce power) anyway. Excess can be scrapped.
It could work. Add a couple of rocket launchers for defence against aliens and we're away!
If you sailed too far you dropped of the edge of the world. Someone questioned that and hello America.
Never question ambition.
The thought that we are alone is actually much scarier than the thought that there is something out there.
and ...very few people ever actualy believed that.
people have known and written about the earth being a globe for over three thousand years.
Aye... but the going is against us being alone tbh. No real reason though to beleive their is someone more advanced than us tbh.
And he may well be a bit behind us and think our spaceship landing is the Devil or something daft.
Yes, but that is the evidence, which is EXTREMELY limit considering our technology and what we know in the universe.
The odds of there being something out there in a vast amount of stuff so huge, are rather good. With so many variables, there is plenty of chances life may have evolved.
There is not an awful lot of evidence, but there is some, as well as highly probable theory based on evidence and common sense. We know that life can exist if the right elements and conditions are there. And given that there are billions upon billions of stars, most of them with orbitiing planets around them, it is practically impossible that the life organisms of planet Earth are the only ones in the Universe.
It'd be like flicking a coin 100 billion times and expecting it to land on heads every time.
No, it's not that certain that there's life out there but the odds are good.
But how would it be protected against Al Queda???
On a serious note...
Mars in 20 years....idealistic garbage!!
There is as much chance of that happening as George Bush becoming a philantropist or even knowing what the damn word means.
they are not even sure they have discovered ANY planets around any of the billions of suns out there.
they think they MIGHT have discovered a handful.
where do you get your information from?
Hence the evidence is in favour, we DON'T KNOW. So there COULD be.
Little to no evidence either way leaves the possibilities open.
It seems that the Universe is teeming with planets. It is ludicrous to think some of them at least won't be home to life.
But they are cheaper and more efficient and less wasteful than the Shuttle, which is exactally why the Russians (Who came up with the shuttle idea first) dissmissed it... then NASA saw they had and made one. The Russians saw NASA had one and went ahead with their old plans.
Do'h.
Rockets are the only real forseable way yet, except for the Russian compasny Energia's protype (lacking any funding yet though) - it launches off the back ofthe AN-225 plane into space. Quite a good idea.
Or, maybe there is giant environmental oxygen making machines under the surface, burried for thousands of millions of years and left unknown to us because we dont live there and aliens who did, left to bugger each other while snorting lines of sugar...which to martians is like cocaine!
No, they actually have FUCK OFF GIANT walking war machines that kill everything, and they invade the UK in the good version of the film and the book. Don't bother with the new one except to see two things:
A) Burning Humvee's driving about.
But yeah. Don't worry, we'll give 'em all the Flu.