Don't bother flying to the moon.
@lookatdesktop (27134)
Dallas, Texas
January 27, 2017 10:52am CST
It's fundamentally impossible to travel physically beyond the speed of light.
So. the next best thing is science fiction or possibly something better than Star Trek.
We have probes that can piggy back on comets that travel way out in long eliptical paths around the sun or perhaps far beyond the orbit of Pluto. We use cameras and robots so why not start traveling to the stars using probes that will let robots walk around on other worlds and look at these worlds through the eyes of the robot using our own already existing technology of 3-D virtual glasses?
I mean, if we can't actually go places way off like Titan, Europa and Mars, why not send robot probes with robots that have camera eyes and robot legs and human like design or even 4 legs like a super creature with extra climbing abilities, with telescopic vision and night vision capabilities?
We don't have to go faster than light. We can remain here on planet Earth, and enjoy virtual exploration using robot probes and robot avatars to go where no life form has gone before and we could remain safe at home in our homes or offices and explore strange new worlds virtually, letting the robots hop on comets and jump from comet to comet as they take our virtual robot avatars from one long eliptical to another one that takes it even farther past the known solar system and beyond the farthest reaches of our galaxy to planets and then using other probes to send images to the robots to send back to us here on planet Earth, we could learn so much more.
Think outside the rocket ship. Start using robotics and anti-mater probes and ram jets to carry robots with human like artificial intelligence to do the work for us like extensions of our selves. We already use cars, planes, ships and rockets to move us past the speed of sound.
10 percent of the speed of light would still be too long to get to the nearest stars. A human lifetime is only about 80 years. To learn what is out there we need to either extend the life span of humans, or find ways to put a person in hybernation for a few thousand years and wake them up but why do all that? Just send out robots with AE artificial intelligence, to go there to explore and use their camera eyes to be our eyes.
It's a good idea.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
27 Jan 17
The government has all the technology they need to travel into space and beyond. Whether you want to call it alien technology or just technology that was stolen from Tesla and others. They can make anti gravity ships. They have zero point energy but they don't use it. Well, at least we don't think they use it. They just don't share with us. The people. They have more technology than we can imagine. We are to believe that all they have is what they have. Like we are stupid or something. But they have technology way beyond our imagination. The internet, though now we are used to it, was around for a very long time before it was released to the public. So whatever we have not that we might marvel it is already very old technology.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
29 Jan 17
@lookatdesktop I check Youtube all the time. And I look for some new videos on technologies and aliens. It intrigues me a lot.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
28 Jan 17
Very interesting. So have you been on YouTube recently? They have many good theories and suggestions about ancient technologies dating back to the Egyptians.
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@Dnuobrats (179)
• United States
28 Jan 17
The sr71 was developed in the late 60's.. All these years later we are lead to believe it doesn't get any better. I tend to agree with you. There are far more advancements that we are unaware of. I have had an up close and personal account with an unknown aircraft around ten years ago a few miles from our home. Was quite an amazing experience. xx
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@egdcltd (12059)
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27 Jan 17
I seem to recall reading that faster than light travel is not theoretically impossible - what's impossible is accelerating up to and past the speed of light. So, if you could find a method of reaching FTL speed without accelerating up to it, I think there's a loophole that says it's possible. Plus, there are wormholes, which although they don't permit FTL travel, make the distances between two points much shorter.
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@egdcltd (12059)
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28 Jan 17
@Dnuobrats Although why would you want to travel hundreds of light years just to create dubious sightings? As a practical joke maybe?
Quantum stuff is weird. Really, really weird. Sort-of time travel is possible with it too, travelling not into the past but into the past in an alternate reality.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
27 Jan 17
Worm Holes. This is a very interesting theory. or The idea that space-time can be bent or folded at will. That would take some magic I think, well within our imagination so as far as science fiction goes, there are no limits. But we all do have to live with the laws of gravity and 3-Demensions, although theorecitcal phisics suggests there are about 11 actual dementions and go into great detail to suggest this concept on YouTube videos.
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@Dnuobrats (179)
• United States
28 Jan 17
@lookatdesktop another possible means is quantum entanglement. There is so much that we still do not understand or have even discovered. Imagine another intelligent race that has even a thousand years head start on us; what may they be capable of?!?! Now simply double or triple that and the possibilities are endless. If humanity survives long enough,one day we will be the ufo's seen within an alien sky!!!! :) xx
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@rebelann (112786)
• El Paso, Texas
27 Jan 17
And then that robot encounters a life form that deems it hostile and with their advanced technology send one of their's here ... but to do what?? Nah, we'd be better off sending those robots to the bottom of the oceans to see what lives there.
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@rebelann (112786)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Jan 17
I'll bet those ETs feel sorry for the planet we are destroying and might want to rescue it and the many species we destroy @lookatdesktop
I'll bet there's life forms way down under throwing all that plastic into lava pits. I've read there really are lava pits down there somewhere's .... just don't quote me cuz you know how the web is, it can spin loads of crap that's nuttin but lies.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
28 Jan 17
I think Stephen Hawking would agree with you on this. I have thought about it before, so I have considered the possibility that aliens would be drawn to Earth to take us over and destroy us in order to obtain the resources of our planet for their own selfish designs. As for the oceans, they might find some huge massive layers of plastic and perhaps more sunken ships and maybe even some valuable treasures.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
27 Jan 17
Sending out anything not human makes sense to me. These don't lie (or do they?) when gathering data.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
27 Jan 17
It is the logical thing to do, as Spock would say. It has been said by some people, not myself, of course, I am very skeptical, but some people believe that if intelligent life from another planet ever came to earth to explore it would have likely been robots not organic life forms that did the actual exploring and if there is anything to be said for all the fiction that debates this concept I am all for it being true but am very skeptical about it. I personally think it would be a one in a billion chance that Earth was ever visited by any alien life form or mechanical or otherwise but it is an interesting thing to write in fiction books and movies.
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
27 Jan 17
@lookatdesktop
I, too, believe more robot probes should be sent out into space, but if NASA needs volunteers, I'd do it in a second. Well, if I could sleep the whole way, that is 
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
28 Jan 17
I would not go to Mars myself, but that is only a skip away compared to Europa or Titan.
I would let others try it but I am probably too old to pass inspection for a Mars tour or even a round trip around the moon.
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
29 Jan 17
@lookatdesktop Yeah, I'd probably throw up and go schizo as soon as the spaceship revved its engines
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@Dnuobrats (179)
• United States
27 Jan 17
It is an interesting proposal and I'm sure we will do that just that in time. Something to think about us voyager one us the farthest man made object in space. Its over ten billion miles away the last I checked. At the speed of light it take 17 hours for a signal to reach earth and vice versa. Its also the fastest thing built by mankind traveling at over 10 miles per second.. xx
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
28 Jan 17
How far is Voyager 2 and which way is it headed now?
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@Dnuobrats (179)
• United States
28 Jan 17
@lookatdesktop they each took opposite paths from one another. The last I checked voyager 2 is between 9-10 billion miles from earth. It's not as far out as voyager 1. The fact that either are still operational is amazing. How much longer we will be able to maintain contact is questionable. If you would like to hear something interesting yet creepy at the same time,you should look up voyager 1's recordings from deep space. xx
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
28 Jan 17
@Dnuobrats I will try to find out more about that. Thanks.
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