Orbiter's limits

[Urwumpe]

The center of the galaxy is 26000 light-years away, not 2500.

And even with 100x light-speed, you would need 12 days for getting to Proxima Centauri. Sounds impressive, but since we don't even have reached 0.1% of the speed of light yet, it is practically unthinkable how to get this fast.

I am not a friend of infinite what-ifs... it would also be nice if cola would grow on trees and I would get paid only for not destroying the world. But that is only the worst kind of dreaming. Productive visionary dreaming is "We are here. How could we get there?" Warp drives are with high certainty the way that will be ridiculed in the future.

 

[Bj]

I am not a friend of infinite what-ifs... it would also be nice if cola would grow on trees and I would get paid only for not destroying the world. But that is only the worst kind of dreaming. Productive visionary dreaming is "We are here. How could we get there?" Warp drives are with high certainty the way that will be ridiculed in the future.

I thought faster than light was impossible, or is there some new technology now that can get us near or past light speed that I dont know about?


I was also referring to the part about being 'boring.' Warp drive is available in some SciFI movies and games right?

 

[Urwumpe]

I thought faster than light was impossible, or is there some new technology now that can get us near or past light speed that I dont know about?

It is not impossible, we just lack experimental evidence, that it is possible. :thumbup: There is not even a FTL particle around.

I was also referring to the part about being 'boring.' Warp drive is available in some SciFI movies and games right?

Only in some.

 

[T.Neo]

And even with 100x light-speed, you would need 12 days for getting to Proxima Centauri.

How could you complain about a travel time of 12 days?

At those speeds, interstellar travel would be opened up in unimginable ways. As to whether it would be possible is a different matter, but I don't see how one could complain about an interstellar travel time of 12 days...

Interplanetary travel times are on the order of a few months at best...

 

[Urwumpe]

How could you complain about a travel time of 12 days?

It is rather about getting some realism into the discussion about a fictional technology. 12 days is not much, but much longer as the few hours or minutes you see in most cheap sci-fi. And the interesting places will have ten times longer travel times.