CatchFraze Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Our current level of technology. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendrake Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 this is some cool stuff. thanks for the link. very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRenegade Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I figure that we will have warp cabilities in our lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afransen Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 The caveat is that no one can really say with certainty what our "lifetime" will be. Medical technology is going to advance A LOT over the next 50, even just 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendrake Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 The caveat is that no one can really say with certainty what our "lifetime" will be. Medical technology is going to advance A LOT over the next 50' date=' even just 20 years.[/quote'] What makes you say that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I don't see warp drive anytime in the next few generations. Heck, we still can't safely travel on the ground at more than 85mph... Before light speed I suspect there will be more advancements in earth travel. As far as medicine, even with great medical technology, it's doubleful we'll be able to add many years to life. For that, you would actually have to slow down the aging process. While facinating, I don't think Zephrem Cochran will fly a warp ship by 2063. But who knows, some alien species that has already discovered FTL may stop by to say hi and give us a few tips =) In fact, I read an article that suggests that with the size of the universe, there is an extremely high degree of probability that there are other intelligent life forms in the universe. In addition, it's also high probable that some of those are millions or billions of years older and more advanced than we are. The article also suggested that it's probable that the earth has already been visited by other intelligent species. Personally, being a religious person, I believe there are other worlds inhabited with human-like intelligent species, probably hundreds or thousands or millions. Have any of them progressed technologically so far as to be able to contact us? Who knows. But it's certain that there are natural laws that we do not yet comprehend or even have imagined to exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zgamesforu Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Yea right now, the science for ftl needs to be developed. While everyone might think antimater is the way to go to solve energy problems on deep space missions, it probably is not. Anti-matter is volitile, requires enery to store, and requires specilized collection. On the other hand, Zero Point Energy, which is quite real, is much more viable. Stargate Atlantis has picked up on this in that it draws energy from the very fabric of space-time (they say sub-space, but that's too specific). This exists everywhere in spacetime, even in vacumes, they don't need energy to be stored, in fact all you need is a vacum. However collection of the enery is still a problem. We still have to find some way to harnes the energy, or going along with stargate canon, "Utilize energy by causing the vacum to increase in entropy[disorder]" As for slowing the aging process, the science has already been found, and i'm sorry to tell you this but it is your cells at birth which will dictate you aging rate. "Tiny hairs" on DNA are shortened when a cell divides, thus each cell has a limited number of generations of descendants. This is the cause for pre-mature aging. These kids are born old, so they start having age-related problems when they're kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I understand the genetics of aging, we don't have an enzyme (that some living things do) that allows the replication of the very ends of the DNA. Thus, every time the cell replications, a small portion of the DNA chain is lost, causing the cells to eventually lack the ability to replicate. So, theoretically, all we need to do is modify a fetus' genome to include instructions for creating this enzyme that will allow complete DNA duplication. However, as far as this being "solved", I haven't heard of any such breakthrough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zgamesforu Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Actually the science exists, but it will never pass FDA or religious approval. By correcting for that flaw, then we would be giving imortality to those who don't get hit by card. Technology exists to change genome, so the enzime could theoretically be added, however the placement in the genome is still a problem. "does it go after this pair or that pair?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRenegade Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Well I beleive that there is life on other planets, and yes they probably have fater than light travel, as travel outside this solar system without it is damn near impossible. And as another religous person, I beleive that God would not create us and this universe unless FTL was possible, just doesn't seem fair. It would be like taking your kid to Disneyland so he/she can look at it through the gates and that's it. It also says in the bible that earth was God's favorite planet. So does that mean there are others that have life, through either evolution or by some divine being? Most definately. Everyday scientists are finding whole galaxies with billions of stars, those billions of stars may or may not have planets. But if you take the millions of galaxies that we know of, and then the billions of planets in each one, even at odds of 1 in a hundred billion, life definately exists elsewhere. BTW, faster than light travel is closer than we think. We can already make anti-matter, all we need to do is fly the ship without warping through a sun, and then perfect not becoming goo on the back of the ship as we go into warp..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I don't know much about space science but I don't think mankind is ready to warp space. Ever seen Event Horizon? eeekkk!!! That's awful stuff they showed in that one. It makes gigantic rockets more attractive than weird space theories about space travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonHelton Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 In fact' date=' I read an article that suggests that with the size of the universe, there is an extremely high degree of probability that there are other intelligent life forms in the universe. In addition, it's also high probable that some of those are millions or billions of years older and more advanced than we are.[/quote'] Quite correct. The number of Class "M" planets (planets like Earth) number in the billions, and even that is probably wrong.......It could be far more than that. Of those billions, is it possible that bipedal creatures similar to ourselves exist? ......Most definately. Is it also true that they may have space travel? ......Certainly. :stare: Of those, is it possible that at least one group is hostile? ......Definitely. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 It also says in the bible that earth was God's favorite planet. This is off topic, but I am interested in knowing which verse you are so interpreting. As for FTL travel, I agree with therenegade--without inertial dampeners, we're screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karimw786 Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I know we all wanna travel to distant planets and stuff, but if we were to think about the ethical dilemmas that would arise, we'd quickly see that interstellar travel is not gonna happen for a long time even if technology permits it much sooner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 What kind of ethical dilemmas? Or, more precisely, what specific ethical dilemmas do you have in mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheldrake1 Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 IMO I think any travelers that come here are on colony type ships. Children of crews that left their planet, maybe hundreds or thousands of years ago. (sounds alot like gallactica) Maybe looking for a new home themselves. When they get here, they are confused about us. Such violence in our society. We scare the hell out of them. They take samples of us to try and understand the violence in us. Scares them even more. They continue on to another destination saying, don't go there. Of course being at the tail end of the arm makes us lucky. We haven't been invaded(we would lose badly) Just think if a race like the Klingons came here. Tits up baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanatos355 Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 In fact' date=' I read an article that suggests that with the size of the universe, there is an extremely high degree of probability that there are other intelligent life forms in the universe. In addition, it's also high probable that some of those are millions or billions of years older and more advanced than we are.[/quote'] Quite correct. The number of Class "M" planets (planets like Earth) number in the billions, and even that is probably wrong.......It could be far more than that. Of those billions, is it possible that bipedal creatures similar to ourselves exist? ......Most definately. Is it also true that they may have space travel? ......Certainly. :stare: Of those, is it possible that at least one group is hostile? ......Definitely. :( hell, look how hostile WE are! there are sure to be civilizations out there that make us look like pussy cats! The caveat is that no one can really say with certainty what our "lifetime" will be. Medical technology is going to advance A LOT over the next 50' date=' even just 20 years.[/quote'] yeah, i see alot of advancement in medicine in the next few decades. you never know what those 'mad' scientists are going to come up with next. I figure that we will have warp cabilities in our lifetime. i dont see that. i dont see that at all. i dont see FTL travel for several hundred years yet. not without some SERIOUS advancements in all fields! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonHelton Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I know we all wanna travel to distant planets and stuff' date=' but if we were to think about the ethical dilemmas that would arise, we'd quickly see that interstellar travel is not gonna happen for a long time even if technology permits it much sooner![/quote'] I don't see an ethical delima......See planet, take planet. :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanatos355 Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 so long as there is no intellegent life there allready, there is no delima. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonHelton Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 so long as there is no intellegent life there allready' date=' there is no delima.[/quote'] Exactly........ If it's claimed, we move on........No harm, no foul. :thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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