so we build a colony ship or a few and send them at sub-light speed to the trappist system, then once we've perfected ftl drives we send a few ships to the trappist system to establish a colony ahead of the sub-light colony ships (since they're much faster).
i think if during the sub-light ship design/build process you push the idea just right, you could motivate society to come together under a shared goal, even to get tons of people volunteering to risk their lives for such a journey. the sub-light ships are essentially an investment, the payoff being the highly advanced earthlings rolling out the red carpet when you arrive. and it's motivating to be a researcher to design the colony ship, and even more so the ftl drives, which could actually motivate kids to go into stem degrees for a purpose that isn't money.
there's a burning in my chest, and i know you feel it too. we've been sitting on our hands yelling at each other for decades now. with this one project, this singular goal, we could bring just about everyone into the fold. there's making the steel needed, designing the ship, charting the course, screening the astronauts, training to be the astronauts, making the food, genetically modifying plants... we're putting earth in a box so everyone can help, from commanding the project all the way down to folding bedsheets.
>it's another /pol/ has illusions of grandeur that amount to some form of escapism
go design some more kool logos and larp about warhammer 40k
Jack Carter
cmon guys, i just wanna know if this is possible. if there's anything we're good at it's being a mouthpiece for a movement. and it's in all of our best interests to colonize other planets instead of keeping us all trapped here prone to a bad day that ends us all
Alexander Jackson
> /pol/ thinks they're the reason Trump got elected
Matthew Wood
By the time you reach the Kuiper belt, fusion energy will have been implemented into Earth's technologies
With that tech, the fusion ship will fly to or past you and probably at the speed of light
Time and space is a funny thing with large distances
Cameron Rodriguez
it's like /pol/ wants a police state and slavery.
Jaxon White
A mob mentality that loves fascism? Say it aint so joe
Parker Peterson
the irony is too much LOL
Anthony Morgan
>how feasible would this project be? not fesable. Nobody who can afford to pay for it will pay.
Hudson Price
Could a sub-light speed generational ship with enough people on it to start a viable colony be launched? yes.
Will faster than light speed ever be a real thing? probably not.
Will we ever, as a species, get off this rock? As long as capitalism is the primary economic system on the planet, no. Their is no profit in it.
Colton White
Or we just shoot freaking big laser beams towards the planets with a message and see if we get an answer back. We could probably get an answer back in 90 years or so. Maybe we can also shoot the lasers in a way to make crop circles and scare the hell out of the famers there.
Bentley Lee
What makes you think the Trapist system would be chosen in the first place? Dont get too excited. Just because a potentially habitable system is found, doesnt mean anyone is going to give enough of a shit to send an expedition anytime soon.
Robert Jones
>send off the sublight colonization ship >technology back home marches on >some time later, ftl ships zip by the old vessel, outbraking them and giving them the finger before blitzing to their destination >establish colony >technology marches on again >people are now freely teleporting between the worlds of the commonwealth of mankind >the old colony ship is now a faint star visible from the insignificant backwater world >send them messages that mock and taunt their slow asses >time passes yet again >civilization is now so old and developed that we have transcended physics >we have also transcended morality >humanity has long ascended to a higher plane of existence and reached nirvana >old colony ship finally arrives at what are now long-forgotten discarded ruins >find note
What does it say?
Elijah King
>subtly implying that socialism will lead to space travel i'm laughing at you for real
Owen Lopez
Sorry for the dumb question, but if a spaceship travels at the speed of light, would it arrives at Trappist in 39 or 0 years?
Carter Sanders
>ftl No.
Hudson Mitchell
Generation ships are a stupid idea. Even if I didn't think they were, they wouldn't be feasible or practical without an orbital shipyard.
Anthony Lee
Spaceship time 0 years Earth time 39 years
Thomas Long
So...how much far would that spaceship go in 1 year (spaceship time)?
Dylan Johnson
If traveling at the speed of light? The question makes no sense. Time doesn't flow in frames traveling at the speed of light. So the spaceship could travel any distance (assuming that it could in fact reach the speed of light)
From the point of view of the spaceship, yes. If you were the captain of this ship, once you reached 100% light speed you would no longer experience time. But there's no way to actually go that fast. Also, you're on a spaceship; you want to eventually bring your ship to a halt and land somewhere. It's not possible to stop something moving at the speed of light (it would take forever to decelerate) Whenever someone talks about FTL travel (or really fast sublight travel) you should always keep in mind that eventually you have to slow your ship down.
