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[Ōkami]

NASA has such a tiny budget, what are you talking about :lol.

They still have a budget?

 

[Babadook]

NASA has such a tiny budget, what are you talking about :lol.

Dunno but if my memory serves, in Dan Brown's Deception Point, basically NASA forges a discovery of alien lifeforms, to convince the world that they do smtg useful and get more money for their decreasing budget .__.

 

[Multiply]

Dunno but if my memory serves, in Dan Brown's Deception Point, basically NASA forges a discovery of alien lifeforms, to convince the world that they do smtg useful and get more money for their decreasing budget .__.

I don't know how to respond to this :lol.

They still have a budget?

:bdpf:

 

[Babadook]

I don't know how to respond to this :lol.
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Oh, it's just that the discussion reminded me of that book.

 

[Yubel]

I'm happy to have read this thread, I will be the first human to go to another planet.
My name will echo throughout the universe, my drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens.

 

[Punk Hazard]

Let's go **** that one up too.

Because oil is really going to be a concern when we can launch ourselves 1,400 lightyears.

Generally speaking, by time we have the capability to traverse interstellar space, it will be just as easy to build deep space colonies as it will to search out planets that we could colonize. The time and energy invested in constructing a known quantity is less than the time and energy spent investigating entirely unknown quantities.

That won't stop us from looking to colonize other worlds - but the reality is that anything that is inhabited by a sentient species is not worth even the risk of announcing our presence to (particularly if they have comparable space travel capabilities). If a planet is inhabited - just move on and continue building colonies.

I imagine there will still be wars in space - but they will most likely be 'civil wars' fought amongst a species rather than two species fighting each other. Humans will have plenty of reason to fight each other over territory we occupy - claims to asteroid mining, specific holdings on a colony, etc. For a species that has no vested interest in a territory they happen across and find to be occupied - it would be quite the rare instance for there to be a resource worth going against an established system's industry to acquire.

While advancement is difficult to predict - I expect we will be performing experiments on 'jump drives' within the next 100 years. IE - a device that allows a ship to simply shift into a position many lightyears away (though I imagine the first experiments will be on the order of a few thousand kilometers).

Of course, people 30 years ago were predicting flying cars and other such things by now - so it's kind of hard to predict which direction things will go.

Jesus Christ shut the **** up it was a joke good lord

 

[Yubel]

It was said this planet has twice the surface gravity of earth so imagine having twice your weight anytime you move. That's some heavy resistance. Then again, once you develop the muscles to be able to walk around on that planet, imagine coming back to earth, you'd be jumping around.

 

[Disquiet]

Don't see how my other post was off topic.

I was serious when I said this is amazing and gives me chills. Just really stops me in my tracks and make me think about the prospect of life on that planet.

 

[Zee Seh]

1400 light years away, meh What a waste of rock, Im not into long travels anyways

 

[Zee Seh]

Why was my post deleted? lol

I was serious when I said this is amazing and gives me chills. Just really stops me in my tracks and make me think about the prospect of life on that planet.

I didn't say that last sentence the first time but I don't see how it was off topic.

You know if that planet can support life then i'll be disappointed if there ain't an Alien species already residing in that planet, considering that planet is even much older that our Sun.
Hey mastah, Now we have a possibility of Alien chicks too, Earth chicks are boring anyways ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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[ArabianLuffy]

It was said this planet has twice the surface gravity of earth so imagine having twice your weight anytime you move. That's some heavy resistance. Then again, once you develop the muscles to be able to walk around on that planet, imagine coming back to earth, you'd be jumping around.

A natural born boy from that planet would be a hyper human.

 

[Yubel]

A natural born boy from that planet would be a hyper human.

True, they will change genetically to adapt to that planet so they won't really be humans anymore as we know it.

 

[Natsu Shazneel]

I see so aliens live over there.

 

[AceisSpaz]

I doubt the inhabitants of that planet would simply let us 'take over it' and by taking over I mean polluting it and destroying it as we are currently doing to our own. XD If anything, they probably won't even share lands

hmm. makes me wonder if those UFO sightings were of creatures or other folks choosing to spy on our planet

 

[Don Drama]

The first colonizers will be the the top 10 riches billionaires...

 

[Yubel]

We'll be sending robots there to build us a human civilization before we arrive. However it would kinda ruin the thrill of being on another planet if I land only to see a copy of New York city.

 

[Ansatsuken]

We need Rinn Sharingan to go there