[Joeiss]

Originally posted by Mushlafa
Space Travel

The faster you go, the heaver you get, the heavier you are the more energy required to go faster.. so you couldnt travel at the speed of light.. you could travel really close to the speed of light but you couldnt actually do it and with the size of the universe traveling at the speed of light wouldnt get is very far in the universe.. humans have had radio waves traveling out into the universe for 50 years now moving at the speed of light.. and they havent eaven gone 1/10 of the way through our galaxy.. so when it does get to a planet with inteligent life.. and they know what radio technology is.. they could be listening to like music that weve been playing for a while.. anyway.. if we really want to travel far in the universe we need to find a faster way of going from place to place than a straight line... We need to learn how to control nuclear fusion in an inclosed enviorment.. we need to learn how to do it.. just like we do it with nuclear fission.. but so far the only places we know this takes place is in the core of stars like our sun... the reason we cant get this to work is because it only happens at VERY high temperatures.. humans have done it in some magnetic something or other for about 1/1000th of a second... anyway once we figure out how to do this.. we need to figure out how to release it in some way and make a "hole" in space" and we can travel through this hole..

oh man.. thats long, has no paragraphs and prolly doesnt make much sense anyway im not done...

Ok get a peice of paper... draw a line on it from left to right .. not all the way across but do that .. thats the only way we know hot to travel for now.. a straight line.. but bend the paper in in half ( the hotdog way ) and put a whole in it going from point A to point B .. thats what we need to learn how to do.. but do it with space using nuclear fusion ..

I watch WAY to much discover channel and TLC at 4 am i just watch it to fall asleep

Yeah. TLC rocks. Anywho, scientists are very close to discovering how to do the whole nuclear fission stuff. The only problem is, is building the ship that will be able to withstand the vast amount of pressure from the speed which they are travelling at. All I know is that it is going to take plenty of astro-engineers to create the proper ships for high speed space travel.