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Space: The final frontier
Published: 01 October, 2010, 01:31
Edited: 14 October, 2010, 22:40
Scientists say they have found a planet with the right conditions to sustain life. A Russian company is working to build a space hotel and Virgin says it should be ready for space tourism flights in 18 months.
Well it is possible given that the time goes slower, the faster we travel (so at 99% speed of light it would take the traveller just 20 or so hours, from their point of view). If you are not a fan of time dillation however, there is also the possibility of generation ships (project orion and the like). Anyway, I am pleased that not everyone is a sceptic like you ;)
To go to this planet in 20 years we need to know how to travel around 30 000 times faster as we know to do it now (speed of light = 300 000 km/second). Beside we will have to go there not with a few astronauts or cosmonauts but with several hundreds (knowing that they will have little chance to see Earth again: round trip = 40 years of their life) We are a long way from being able to meet those challenges. Mostly if we keep on wasting over a trillion € each year on our own self-destruction ; just to please a few greedy creeps. Let us have the honesty to face our real actual problems then force our idiot politicians to revise most countries 's priorities. Sorry Future Generations; nothing, very exciting is actually in sight...Your friend: Jean-Claude Meslin
yes yes yes .. everyone is so exited ... everyone is preparing to go there .... building all kind of things .. hotels .. cars.... etc .... and the place is not that far actually only 20 light years away ... lol