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The milky way galaxy
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The milky way galaxy
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beautiful isn't it? and yet we have haven't progressed past rockets technology to really explore our own universe maybe when we stop killing each other over silly religions we can get warp drives already.

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eventually we would need to leave earth its best to get started now than regret it later.

kind of sad i wont be around when we get this stuff.
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RE: The milky way galaxy
Milky Way is a barred spiral, not an ordinary spiral as depicted.
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RE: The milky way galaxy
No kidding, Freeman Dyson and others did some work on pushing Orion Nuclear Impulse technology to it's limits and felt we had the capability for interstellar travel, albeit slowly.

The engineering is scary, but it doesn't involve any violation of physics.
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RE: The milky way galaxy
(October 24, 2014 at 11:24 am)vorlon13 Wrote: No kidding, Freeman Dyson and others did some work on pushing Orion Nuclear Impulse technology to it's limits and felt we had the capability for interstellar travel, albeit slowly.

The engineering is scary, but it doesn't involve any violation of physics.

For mere interstellar travel that is slow, we hardly need even Orion. Voyager spacecrafts are doing interstellar travel as we speak.

But slowly is the catch. We humans have a detailed planning horizon, that is at most 1-2 life spans. For realistic policy involving interstellar travel to be formulated, instellar travel must be fast enough to be accomplished within our detailed planning horizon.

That even the Orion can not really do.
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RE: The milky way galaxy
I am fascinated by the idea of interstellar exploration; however, I think we could learn to better take care of each other before infesting the cosmos.
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RE: The milky way galaxy
(October 24, 2014 at 12:33 pm)Cato Wrote: I am fascinated by the idea of interstellar exploration; however, I think we could learn to better take care of each other before infesting the cosmos.


We deserve a chance to outbreed our own inhumanity.
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RE: The milky way galaxy
Speaking of interstellar travel, anyone else excited about this?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: The milky way galaxy
(October 24, 2014 at 1:41 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Speaking of interstellar travel, anyone else excited about this?

I wasn't, but I am now
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#9
RE: The milky way galaxy
huh. I always thought it'd be bigger.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The milky way galaxy
(October 24, 2014 at 3:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: huh. I always thought it'd be bigger.

Boru

What would be bigger?
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