Is interstellar travel possible?

That depends on what your definition of "possible" is.
In theory, yes. Practically for humans, no. We probably don't know for sure about aliens.
Our current technology would require the construction of multi-generation ships. It would take generations of people to reach the nearest star, without guarantee that the trip would be worth more than to satisfy some scientific curiosity. There may be no resources or life of any sort, let alone intelligent aliens (or at that point, they'd be the indigenous).

Not really.
Even at the speed of light (theoretically fastest speed possible, and probably not even reachable) the nearest star would take about 4 years to reach

So what? Even Magellan's expedition travelled for four years.

Yeah man I mean it's not like we have to worry about get ripped into atomic waste by travelling at that speed or anything

just shoot a laser beam in front of you and monitor it to see if something is in you way. and keeping top speed down to 1/10 light speed wont hurt either.

Bump

that's just retarded

Bump

Possible? Yes.
Practical? Nobody who can pay is willing to fund it.
FTL? Speculative at best.
Memedrive? Certainly.

Everything is possible, even that everything isn't possible is possible. Possible is what might turn out to be. It is a concept whose only purpose is to distinguish the intelligent, open-minded people from the ignorant, closed-minded individuals.

Probable? Little chance of that any time soon, even to the closest star. Little chance society will survive long at all, esp if economic war leads to nuclear war. Certainly some lines are being crossed in the hacking and misinformation areas and there are too many psychopathic leaders with nukes.

>FTL? Speculative at best.
FTL, despite it's ubiquitous presence in sci-fi, is never going to happen. ever. i guarantee it.

sure, voyager 1 is practically interstellar already, iirc.

>Is interstellar travel possible?
yes
get into a ship, start travelling to another star and wait a few centuries

>will i be able to finnish an interstellar travel within my lifetime?
no

Yes we just need a big enough pencil to punch a hole in space time and create a shortcut

>phase
>phasers
>quotes start trek
>thinks he knows anything about science fiction, anything at all

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>voyager 1 is practically interstellar already
No and not for many thousands of years.

You're actually traveling through interstellar space right now, fool.

iflscience.com/space/more-dozen-stars-will-be-making-close-encounters-earth/

probably never, its not aimed at any start, so it will have to hit one at random, it will probably be totally eroded by interstellar hydrogen before it comes even 1.000.000 AUs from any star

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Time dilation makes it possible for people traveling at a large fraction of the speed of light to cover huge distances over the span of a human lifetime, though time would pass "normally" for those outside the ship. If you were going fast enough, it would feel like only 28 years passed while traveling from here to the Andromeda Galaxy (~2.5 million light years away) at sublight speeds. Obviously our technology is nowhere near that level and it would require huge amounts of energy, but it's not violating any laws.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_travel

Is it possible to make wormholes

How do wormholes even work

They do not

wormholes don't exist, stupid

>well hi there
>it's cold out here
>and lonely
>but i'm doing my best

Where does that shortcut pass through?

Sure, it's just impractical.

The Love Dimension

No, because space doesn't exist.

No, we're in the process of sending a probe interstellar right now.

Manned Interstetallar travel within a decade is impossible though.

>it takes sooo long
but it's not fucking impossible ffs

Yes. Light does it.

What about that game tachyon. Those ships went fast?

kek if you're traveling at the speed of light, a laser beam shot in your travel direction will go at the same speed than you so in your referencial it will not move at all

you can use a submarin to swim in the ether so if you have a very big submarin, yes

A true robot bean

With current tech let me calculate real quick

4.2421 * 9.4605284 * 10^12
40,13250752564 * 10^12

Helios 2 speed maxed at 252,792 kilometers per hour
so 252,792 x 24 x 365 = 2214457920 kilometers per year

(4.2421 * 9460730472580800) / 2214457920 = number of years

roughly 40 * 10^12 divided by 22 * 10^7 in years

We could have a space craft go by in roughly 20000 years

No. The travel for millenia approach doesn't work because technical equipment doens't last that long and people don't want to make a journey without arriving at the destination.
And the travel at relativistic speeds approach doesn't work either because of the stupendous energy demands.

This is btw also the solution to the Fermi paradox.

>And the travel at relativistic speeds approach doesn't work either because of the stupendous energy demands.
Not to mention striking just about any particles releasing huge amounts of energy in damage.

No

If we develop AI, we can have the answers to that question and more within one week of the AIs creation.

>his race doesn't know how to make force fields to protect their ships from this kind of thing
If you fags can't even figure that out you should just give up on discovering FTL travel

This, at least the 2nd paragraph.

>Will no longer be capable of powering itself in 2025
>Will drift toward the ends of the universe, passing unknown marvels and never being able to tell its human pals back home just what lies out there.

Fuck man I really hope we're able to find you and pick you up in the future, Voyager-kun