[ntype]

for 10 years (and in sync with the sun)

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shit you wonder what makes people wake up in the morning...that kind of shit !

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

If you took the fastest spaceship now known to man, how long would it take to get to Pluto?

[ntype]

If you took the fastest spaceship now known to man, how long would it take to get to Pluto?

Interesting.

Ok now just to take some funnies out there, the fastest man made object who travelled in space was the Helios 2 probe (it's german engineering in case you wonder) who made a whooping 252'792 km/s (something like 158,000 mph).

Ok now Pluto is the furtest planet, who moreover got a funny orbit. Basically it's inbetween 29 and 49 astronomical units from the Sun (1 UA is basically the medium distance that we have inbetween the earth and the sun).

Roughly 1 UA is 150 millions kilometers (149 597 870 ,691 ± 0,030 km according to Wikipedia).

Ok so for the sake we say tha Pluto is at 39 UA from the sun ((29+49)/2)).
39 UA represents 5'850'000'000 kilometers -3635021474.588 miles-(that's fucking away I tell you).
Pluto is so far away from the sun that if you were on his surface the sun wouldn't be more different from the other stars that you would see (we are talking about hypothesis here, Pluto doesn't have a fucking seashore to see the "all night long night life").

Ok now we take helios at maximum speed (hey dude because we are worth it !)

Helios does 253'000 kilometer each seconds (wooot) 907'200 kilometers each hours of travel. Now we have 5 billions and 850 millions kilometers to go (5850000000/252792) = 6448.412698 .... 6449 hours.

24 hours in a day means : 269 days to go there.

Now it's thinking that you went there instantanely. I mean starting from zero to 253'000 m/s then stopping again.

And it was using the numbers of an object who was going that fast only because of some gravity assists...

ok now using Apollo 10 during earth re-entry : 39895 km/h
time using apollo 10 : 146635 hours ~-> 6110 days ~-> 17 years

But again using Apollo 10 during earth re-entry

Why that ?

[ntype]

Oh the space shuttle goes around at 28'000 km/h

Means ~208929 hours ~→ 8705 days ~→ 24 years

That a hell of a long travel

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

Oh the space shuttle goes around at 28'000 km/h

Means ~208929 hours ~→ 8705 days ~→ 24 years

That a hell of a long travel

Yeah. I was thinking that what we just watched of that guy wouldn't even be enough time to space travel to Pluto.

That is one reason why I find it so impractical that any "alien" life has "visited" our planet. It would take too friggin long to get here and then go back home. Space travel is neat to think about, but almost ridiculously impractical. From fuel, to age, to wear and tear and maintance. Just seems like it would never be a reality.

[BIRD33]

Do you really think that aliens from another planet would be limited by the same technological difficulties that we are?Flying around the world in an airplane would look ridiculously impractical 200 years ago.

[who]

anyone check ntypes figures?

[ntype]

anyone check ntypes figures?

that would be nice, it was late yesterday and I did it a little bit "on the edge of a table"

[ntype]

Yeah. I was thinking that what we just watched of that guy wouldn't even be enough time to space travel to Pluto.

That is one reason why I find it so impractical that any "alien" life has "visited" our planet. It would take too friggin long to get here and then go back home. Space travel is neat to think about, but almost ridiculously impractical. From fuel, to age, to wear and tear and maintance. Just seems like it would never be a reality.

well conventional spaceflight (the means that we use) are a strong barrier for deep space colonization, without counting that human life spans for 100 years with something like 40-50 years of really productive work (let's say from 15 to 60) -hey you won't ask a 80 years old dude to go lift around bricks...-

well now if you start thinking about "colony ships" (aka ships that sail with no return) who are fully loaded with gardens and so on...well even with chemical propulsion we could get to nearby star in 1000 years or 2000 ...well you see the point here is that no recent human civilization lasted that long (modern times starts from when..1800 ? it's only 200 years and during this time we passed from the cow carts to the space ships had a few wars, devastating epidemies....

Lasts the sci-fi methods (space vortexes and so on). The funny thing is that there is theoretically nothing who could impeach you to do a "dimensional vortex to go directly to another point in the universe", the only drawback is that you need an humounguous amount of energy (let's say two or three Suns...)

Now we are limited by our technology, 200 years ago we could only dream of even flying in the earth atmosphere (I'm pushing a little bit here)

Funny isn't it ?

[ntype]

Do you really think that aliens from another planet would be limited by the same technological difficulties that we are?Flying around the world in an airplane would look ridiculously impractical 200 years ago.

exactly whitout thinking that not so remote possibilities of

1. all other life-forms in the universes are composed at best of prehistorical civilisations

2. we are sincerely ignored by aliens, I mean c'mon when was the last time that you invited an Amazonic tribemen for the holidays ?

3. we are in a zone where there is nothing apart us, the good news is that we will never be vaporized by massive spaships "ala err starwars and so on" the bad news is that if we ship in our diapers nobody is going to clean that.

[Anhil8tor]

I bet aliens don't use oil...

bunch of bitches.