How do you feel about the fact that humans will never leave the solar system? Does it make you depressed...

>only known life
>known life
>known
fucking read, holy shit
someone else called another user out for that exact thing

What if there are 2 more life forms in the universe that we don't know about but they know about each other? You don't know, so it's still an assumption you piece of shit

HUMANITY WILL CONQUER THE GALAXY YOU BRAINLET REEEEEEEEEE

>what if

i'm predicting we'll get a few people on mars at best, and if we do, some shit will probably go horribly wrong and those few people will die from whatever cause

>Says who?
Definitely probes and other unmanned craft but I highly doubt a human being (in a non highly augmented or derivative form) will ever physically leave the Solar System.

Precisely. Why would claim to know life exists elsewhere if we're some tiny people on a tiny rock within a vast universe?

>we don't have to worry about ayy lmaos bigger than bacteria
not the ones native to our solar system anyway

Escape velocity is not that hard to achieve

>implying

>in a non highly augmented or derivative form
But we're probably going to do that (or at least try) anyway, regardless of interstellar travel.
Expanding our lifespan and brain abilities are both quite desirable objectives, if we make it we would also probably be able to modify our bodies to support long term suspended animation.
Considering that antimatter could be used to reach 1/10 the speed of light, the objective isn't so farfetched.
It's all speculative, but when we are talking about long term developments it's inevitable to be.

>it IS the only known life in the universe
We've never looked at any other systems.
Just 30 years ago, you might have said we had the only know planets in the universe, even though we could be fairly certain there are other planets.

It is our duty as intelligent life to try becoming gods. To go extinct from anything other than an undefeatable cosmic force (such as our current understanding of entropy) is an insult to God/the universe that crafted us with such potential.

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>>we don't have to worry about ayy lmaos bigger than bacteria
>not the ones native to our solar system anyway
Oh? You're 100% certain there's nothing living in the liquid methane lakes of Titan?
Or the deep oceans of other gas-giant moons?
There's definitely noting bigger than bacteria ANYWHERE in the solar system?
And life can ONLY be life as we know it?
There definitely can't be some kind of Boltzmann-brain critters living in the heart of the sun?

you forgot pluto

>we know stuff we don't know
interesting.

>>we know stuff we don't know
>interesting.

Don't be a retard on purpose.
Saying "I have the only known green socks in the world" implies I've checked the rest of the world.
Saying our solar system has the only known life in the universe implies we've ever looked anywhere else, and we haven't.

>How do you feel about the fact that humans will never leave the solar system?

I feel like you have no idea if that is a fact or not.

>Saying "I have the only known green socks in the world" implies I've checked the rest of the world.
ok you ARE dumb

>Saying our solar system has the only known life in the universe implies we've ever looked anywhere else,

No it doesn't. it merely says we have no information indicating there is life anywhere else. Which is true. We don't.

>we haven't.

We have, though. Ro a very limited extent, we've looked at the Moon, Mars and Venus. To a lesser extent, we have looked at some of the outer planets, and some exoplanets. It is possible that any of these later planets might have life we have yet to detect, but to say we have not looked at them at all is untrue.

We have also expended some effort looking for radio transmissions and other indications of intelligent life. We have no found it.

There may or may not be other life in the Universe. But we do not know of it, if there is.

You really don't.
We already have the technology to get robots to the closest star in about 15 years. We haven't sent them because of certain reasons, like a refusal to work with nuclear propulsion technologies, budgeting, politics, etc.

Also take not that with an advanced spaceship and good propulsion tech, humans can travel at millions of miles per hour.
Its not the speed that kills us, its the acceleration.

S T A R . . W A R S

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.

During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy....

We may not leave the solar system, but our creations will.

>No it doesn't. it merely says we have no information indicating there is life anywhere else. Which is true. We don't.
I have no reason to believe you don't have a cock in your mouth right now. I really don't.
But saying that implies I might have some reason to believe you do.
Saying "only known life in the universe" implies you might know something about the subject when you don't.
>We have, though. Ro a very limited extent, we've looked at the Moon, Mars and Venus.
>To a lesser extent, we have looked at some of the outer planets,

>Saying our solar system has the only known life in the universe implies we've ever looked anywhere else, and we haven't.
The things you're referring to are in the solar system, except this:

>and some exoplanets.
Remind me how many exoplanets we've searched for life on?

>We have also expended some effort looking for radio transmissions and other indications of intelligent life. We have no found it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Humans_are_not_listening_properly
>with a radio telescope as sensitive as the Arecibo Observatory, Earth's television and radio broadcasts would only be detectable at
>distances up to 0.3 light-years, less than 1/10 the distance to the nearest star.

Go watch any Isaac Arthur video about interstellar travel and you will change your opinion.

Nonsense. It takes 80000 years to the closest star and sending a robot is very different from humans

You are grossly underestimating how difficult interstellar travel is. Even if you had unlimited funding it's still on a completely different level than anything humanity has ever done. "Just go fast lmao" is not that simple

I would add
Asteroids, comets, Kuiper belt objects.
There is really *a lot* of stuff in our own system.

>It takes 80000 years to the closest star
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)#Theoretical_applications

133 years without saving fuel for slowing down.

This is the third thread this week started by/popular with people who seem to think they have all the answers to purely hypothetical questions we have no practical knowledge of.
Let's wait until we've sent a few ships to other stars before we start quoting numbers for the fastest possible trip.

NASA literally can't get back to the moon right now. 60s scientists are pretty much the ancient wise ones and we are dealing with trying to reverse engineer their tech at this point.

>60s scientists are pretty much the ancient wise ones and we are dealing with trying to reverse engineer their tech at this point

Why the fuck would we want to physically leave the solar system when we can just send Von Neumann probes and oculus rift it when they find something worth checking out?

wtf I love polygymy now

>ayylmaos detect object accelerated to 0.1c
>Niggas think we sent out relativistic bomb
>They send one right back at us

Solid plan my dude

Surely this is not true

If we had a large enough space economy. It would actually be somewhat feasible to build an interstellar probe, and perhaps later a ship capable of sending colonists to another star. It all seems impossible right now, but it could happen within a thousand years.

What's the fucking point? We would have no communication with colonies outside of this solar system - it's like they wouldn't exist at all.

The only way this would make sense is if humanity (necron-like creatures at this point) had to build planet-size worldship to collectively get the fuck out due to some imminent danger.

>von Neumann probe
>a bug in the software disables the killswitch and now you have unleashed a weapon with aim to turn the entire material of the milky way into more probes
>oh shit

>we can just send Von Neumann probes and oculus rift it when they find something worth checking out?

c

we'll intercept with laser

ensue interplanetary arms race

literally a meme theory that's not practical in any way

childhood idealism is cancer.

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It's kinda like playing a Civ game on deity and you get your nice own little comfy continent all to yourself.

why does this thing even exist when half of those rely on random guessing

That's a pretty convoluted way to say "zero"

I would be fine with us not leaving the solar system for thousands of years, in some ways it may be smarter than spreading out haphazardly, who knows what we might encounter, if hostile aliens exist at all anywhere around us. I love the idea of us colonizing the hell out of the solar system, someday reaching the unbelievable point where there are more humans living off Earth than on it, on terraformed moons or Mars, domed cities on the moon or living in artifical space colonies and stations or vast city size starships permanently travelling across the solar system with millions of inhabitants onboard. Eventually maybe even seeing something like the megastructure in Blame! being created, depending on how our technological progress and mastery continues, even though its run amock in Blame! its cool because its likely theres no such thing in the entire universe and its exclusively in our own solar system, a true wonder of the universe.

Also the idea of humans "isolated" from some vast galactic community that tears itself apart with warfare which we're not aware of and neither are they of us because we stick to a single solar system is pretty hilarious too, and when humans finaly decide to spread out into space farther and farther we become sort of the de-facto dominant superpower of the galaxy because we somehow managed to survive not killing each other (because resources in space are somehwat plentiful) is pretty fun to think about too. Showing that there could be advantages to sticking in one spot for awhile, especially a spot as big as our solar system.

Then again theres also the possibility that we are the only intelligent life in the galaxy at such a level and sticking to one solar system would be pointless, and the other idea is something crazy like the galaxy being so open for us for the taking that potential millions of Earthlike worlds await us, we could be living comfy lives our race spread out onto a thousand comfy worlds connected by trade netwo

>That's a pretty convoluted way to say "zero"
Let's not pull numbers out of our ass on the "science and math" board.

And then another idea is that humans continue to thrive like that for millions of years until we approach the Andromeda galaxy collision and thats how we meet our first alien species who survived just like we did in Andromeda, and they either look human like us or maybe completely different and alien and maybe they have several species of intelligent spacefaring civilizations too, and maybe they require different conditions for life and dont survive as well on Earthlike worlds and so now with the merging of two galaxies even more Earthlike worlds for humans and more whatever worlds for the alien races we encounter are available and both galaxies just chill, thats a comfy thought too.

Or alternatively the other alien race on Andromeda is hostile and wants to conquer so humans in the Milky Way band together and fight this new threat to our galactic peace, and both sides have had time to develop incredibly powerful warships, superweapons and massive armies and fleets and a galactic war ensues.

Thats a neat idea too.