so /sci/ we all know that with current propulsion, interstellar travel is possible, but would take decades, even centuries. What are solutions to this?
Patience
WARP DRIVES
>>7704023
Dude weed
we already have the solution, OP. The meme drive.
>>7704023
>>7704023
The truth is we are biological creatures evolved to this enviorment. We are never going to leave the planet in any meaningful metric let alone be able to traverse the great voids between.
It's a fantasy.
1)we either have to cheat and warp and or cut through space-time.
2) we give up our attachment to the here and now and use generation ships or create a way to "omit" time.
>>7704173
No FTL without violating relativity.
We could "travel forward in time" by freezing our bodies
>>7704023
There's a chance wormholes or warp drives work, we don't know.
But barring that what we need is near light speed travel. At near light speed we could travel far even within a normal lifespan thanks to time dilation. We would probably be leaving earth behind for good if we did this but it is technically possible.
Nuclear Propulsion Drive
>>7704153
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion can accelerate us to 1/10th the speed of light.
>>7704023
>>7692346
find the gems in the spam
>>7704220
this
>>7704203
And what's so bad about violating relativity?
why travel into fucking space, when we can hook our brains up to quantum computers?
>>7704606
Nothing is "wrong" with it but it doesn't seem to be possible.
Regardless interstellar travel could still be doable without any FTL at all.
>>7704023
nigga, we'd be lucky just to get humans on Mars
>>7704023
Advanced androids and cyborgs will explore interstellar space. Humans will probably remain within the solar system for a long time.
>>7704023
Go faster
>>7704153
>never going to leave the planet
you mean solar system
>>7704634
because quantum computers may not end up being able to simulate arbitrary quantum systems.
>>7704727
No, he was correct.
>>7704634
Because the future survival of humanity depends more on expansion then withdrawal.
Though why not the best of both worlds? Upload our consciousness into machines and then send the machines into space! No more frail meatsacks!
>>7704707
This. Think Arthur C. Clarke's "The Songs Of Distant Earth"...automated starships equipped with universal assemblers reach a destination, then "build" humans from local materials after creating a habitat. They also build the next set of starships, then continue the process.
Except, the starships are microscopic, and there's billions of them launched at a target star, via EM cannon. They're basically flying "foglets", networked together and with an AI governing them...
http://www.airspacemag.com/space/starship-on-a-chip-13658215/?no-ist
That Star Trek/Star Wars flying-around-in-a-space-boat crap is as unrealistic as Jules Verne was to modern rocketry...entertaining as hell, but impractical.
>>7704742
>upload our consciousness
kek
