Talk:Intergalactic travel
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I think we can safely keep this article on the backburner for a while... Chadlupkes 20:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- You have no imagination.
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- Actually, I'm looking at the national debt. I have plenty of imagination, and I could probably help design and build the ship. But until we have the resources, it's in the future. It doesn't take imagination, it takes political will. And that's what we have none of right now. Chadlupkes 00:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
- Why is this even being discussed? You're both wrong, one of you is implying that this is possible with a little 'imagination' and the other is claiming that it's possible but only in the future when we work out our problems here on Earth. Intergalactic travel is impossible, period. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.97.1.223 (talk • contribs) .
- This would take way more than political will. It would require spaceships that can travel at just below the speed of light (using time dilation) or components that last millions of years (unless a wormhole, warp drive or something else along those lines can be made). Polonium 00:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- You´re all asshats. What does the fact that it´s probably in the distant future have to do with anything? Wikipedia is full of articles about highly speculative science.--Threedots dead 21:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- This would take way more than political will. It would require spaceships that can travel at just below the speed of light (using time dilation) or components that last millions of years (unless a wormhole, warp drive or something else along those lines can be made). Polonium 00:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Why is this even being discussed? You're both wrong, one of you is implying that this is possible with a little 'imagination' and the other is claiming that it's possible but only in the future when we work out our problems here on Earth. Intergalactic travel is impossible, period. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.97.1.223 (talk • contribs) .
- Actually, I'm looking at the national debt. I have plenty of imagination, and I could probably help design and build the ship. But until we have the resources, it's in the future. It doesn't take imagination, it takes political will. And that's what we have none of right now. Chadlupkes 00:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
One method of InterGalacticTravel has been proposed that doesn't used a space craft - it uses a solar system. Credit should probably go to LarryNiven who proposed something similar for his Puppeteer race in RingWorld. Of course, it does require a rather patient passanger species. --Pallando 14:48, 12 April 2007 (BST)
This Article is pure Copy-Paste... See: http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Intergalactic-travel.html
[edit] Why not?
Why can't we conceive the technical possibility of intergalactic travel? After all, even interplanetary travel or going to the moon would be unconceivable only 500 years ago. If effective propulsion methods are not known, it doesn't mean that they can't exist at all. Anyway, even interstellar travel is speculative, and that may be one reason why there is no evidence that we are visited by aliens. Even with a wide range of theories supporting the possibility of interstellar travel, it might not be useful or practical at all. Probably, it's even less useful or practical to make intergalactic trips, but theoretically it may be possible in the future, as science and technology advances. I don't think it's correct to discard it on the basis the is a highly fantastic speculation. Concerning to the speculation's criticisms, it must be pointed out that every theory is speculation before it's proven. So, if scientists in history wouldn't have been open to speculation at all, we would still be in the middle ages or at an even less advanced stage in our society. It would be also interesting to see if space travel will continue to be in fashion in the future, since Earth is plenty of resources and wastes a lot of energy that comes from the Sun, which is not used at all for direct human benefit (apart from maybe 0,1% or less). When our curiosity about the Solar System and the Universe is satisfied, through means that don't necessary imply going there, will humans be still interested about that? We can not know it now, as we can't know either if science and technology will ever allow the possibility of intergalactic travel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nmgscp (talk • contribs) 18:10, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
where it is true to say we do not have the teqnological ability to build a spacecraft that will travel faster than the speed of light due to the fact phisics has bounderies that are impossible to surpass it is obvious the amount of enegy required to travel at that speed would render it an imposible task indeed--121.209.65.7 (talk) 11:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)ps
[edit] Um,
The last sentence doesn't make sense. It says 'useful for intergalactic travel, and maybe even interstellar travel' .. obviously the latter would be simpler than the former.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 04:09, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
