mikeofaustin
Bronze Member
A space craft with infinite acceleration and fuel, can only accelerate at 1G (1 earths gravitation) because humans won't last at any other acceleration. Now mind you, This acceleration to the nearest star, Alpha Century, it's 3.4 light years away, and it would take a generation star ship to accelerate at 1G to get there. BUT, once you get to alpha century, you can't just stop like a break peddle.... You need to decelerate at 1G.
This means that after you left earth, accelerating at 1G, exactly halfway there, you need to start decelerating at 1g (you need to turn the bus around and start decell).... This is called "Retro-grade, and Pro-grade". Accelerate, and then Decelerate. So, this experience will take 480 years to get to the nearest like solar system (alpha century). This is called a 'Generation starship'. This means, that your grandchild's-grandchild-grandchild's-grandchild's-grandchild's kid might be able to land on the nearest solar system like our own.
This is because of the the current limitation on gravitation acceleration. To get around that, one might suggest suspended animation. This has it's own problems because of the various densities in our own organs. These variations will pull stronger with gravitation than others. Literally, everything, blood, bone, skin, etc.. .will be pulled for hundreds of years at their very own weight... so. Suspended animation is not an option either.
This brings us to technology that we, as in the 22nd century, matters. ...Take for example, the estimated lifetime of this planet. 4 billion years old. Supposedly, we have evolved from the last million. Now, a million years ago, we were about 1 foot tall, talking in nothing even remotely acceptable to basic communication amongst our peers (we were lizards). So, you have just image that we once stood, one foot tall, with tales and all, looking across this huge expanse of water... an island. We said to ourselves that it would never be possible to posses the ability to cross this pond to get to that island. And yet, look at us today. We've been to the moon.
Now, given the time frame that we've been alive, and in 1 million years from now, will we be saying, "Just look at us... we once thought that intergalactic travel was something that would never happen. We were once only 6 foot tall then. Look at us now. We are traveling to other galaxies now.
This means that after you left earth, accelerating at 1G, exactly halfway there, you need to start decelerating at 1g (you need to turn the bus around and start decell).... This is called "Retro-grade, and Pro-grade". Accelerate, and then Decelerate. So, this experience will take 480 years to get to the nearest like solar system (alpha century). This is called a 'Generation starship'. This means, that your grandchild's-grandchild-grandchild's-grandchild's-grandchild's kid might be able to land on the nearest solar system like our own.
This is because of the the current limitation on gravitation acceleration. To get around that, one might suggest suspended animation. This has it's own problems because of the various densities in our own organs. These variations will pull stronger with gravitation than others. Literally, everything, blood, bone, skin, etc.. .will be pulled for hundreds of years at their very own weight... so. Suspended animation is not an option either.
This brings us to technology that we, as in the 22nd century, matters. ...Take for example, the estimated lifetime of this planet. 4 billion years old. Supposedly, we have evolved from the last million. Now, a million years ago, we were about 1 foot tall, talking in nothing even remotely acceptable to basic communication amongst our peers (we were lizards). So, you have just image that we once stood, one foot tall, with tales and all, looking across this huge expanse of water... an island. We said to ourselves that it would never be possible to posses the ability to cross this pond to get to that island. And yet, look at us today. We've been to the moon.
Now, given the time frame that we've been alive, and in 1 million years from now, will we be saying, "Just look at us... we once thought that intergalactic travel was something that would never happen. We were once only 6 foot tall then. Look at us now. We are traveling to other galaxies now.