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Originally Posted by psyche101
It's doable at 10% the speed of light 40 years, and the Orion project was estimated to reach that.
Exactly, time dilation makes space travel a one way trip, but why would a species not consider the trip? One person still gets to visit a new world, perhaps colonise to keep a species alive? Even if it takes 800 years, that might still be the quickest way to know exactly what is on an exoplanet. We would still want to know wouldn't we? 800 years is better than nothing?
I think such ideals do make interstellar travel possible, just not how the Sci Fi writers in the 50's imagined it.
Here is a question that might be interesting, if anyone here on the board was offered to take such a trip, would you do it? I mean get to see a new world, but likely never your own again?
Would you go?
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Imagine being the one to go. You go all that way, - spend all that time, - and when you get there, they have "Hey Hey it's frigging Saturday" on TV.
How peeved would you be
