Luna Tick
06-12-2010, 03:55 PM
Okay, the next star system is named Proxima Centauri (part of Alpha Centauri), and it would take longer than a human life span to get there. But it's possible. I want our scientists to look there for life. We might be able to find it there, but it will take patience. With an ion engine, one of our spacecraft could get there in 81,000 years. However, if maximize gravitational sling-shotting, we could cut the journey time to 19,000 years. Obviously, no human being could survive such a journey. However, a humanlike android could.
It's frustrating that the USA is so behind in developing androids. The Japanese are way ahead of us. If we could create androids with the same intelligence (and in come ways superior intelligence) and emotions as humans, we could send them in a spacecraft to Proxima Centauri. They would need no life support and could be programmed not to experience boredom. That would be our best hope to have "humans" greet other intelligent life. I would want to make them as humanlike as possible. Like I said, they should have consciousness and emotions. I'm also in favor of androids being able to fuck. That's a very important aspect of being human, one that we shouldn't deny to sentient androids.
Of course, 19K years is a long wait. We on earth would need to keep the human race surviving that long and not kill ourselves off via wars, pollution, or climate change. In 19K years, it would be amazing to get radio transmissions of digital images and video of other life forms in another star system.
There's another option: Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, which could let us travel .4 the speed of light and get us there in 85 years. It would be easier to design androids that last that long than ones that must endure for 19K years. It may even be possible to send biological humans if we can set up a life support environment that can last that long. However, it would need to be a multi-generational trip. The humans would have to fuck and produce offspring and then educate them in their mission. And, of course, they would never know Earth since they could not come back. It would be yet a future generation that would return, if they do. They could conceivably settle there. Really, the use of androids is the most promising.
There's a big drawback to Nuclear Pulse Propulsion. It's the same technology used in nuclear weapons. It's asking a lot to be able to harness that awesome power without blowing ourselves up or contaminating ourselves with radiation. Plus, politically it would be difficult. We would have to negotiate an exception to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
There's an interesting article about all this stuff here:
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/08/how-long-would-it-take-to-travel-to-the-nearest-star/
There are other reasons for developing android technology which I'd like to get to in a future post. One of them is the creation of more widespread sexual satisfaction via fuck-droids. It's an exciting prospect that deserves our attention.
It's frustrating that the USA is so behind in developing androids. The Japanese are way ahead of us. If we could create androids with the same intelligence (and in come ways superior intelligence) and emotions as humans, we could send them in a spacecraft to Proxima Centauri. They would need no life support and could be programmed not to experience boredom. That would be our best hope to have "humans" greet other intelligent life. I would want to make them as humanlike as possible. Like I said, they should have consciousness and emotions. I'm also in favor of androids being able to fuck. That's a very important aspect of being human, one that we shouldn't deny to sentient androids.
Of course, 19K years is a long wait. We on earth would need to keep the human race surviving that long and not kill ourselves off via wars, pollution, or climate change. In 19K years, it would be amazing to get radio transmissions of digital images and video of other life forms in another star system.
There's another option: Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, which could let us travel .4 the speed of light and get us there in 85 years. It would be easier to design androids that last that long than ones that must endure for 19K years. It may even be possible to send biological humans if we can set up a life support environment that can last that long. However, it would need to be a multi-generational trip. The humans would have to fuck and produce offspring and then educate them in their mission. And, of course, they would never know Earth since they could not come back. It would be yet a future generation that would return, if they do. They could conceivably settle there. Really, the use of androids is the most promising.
There's a big drawback to Nuclear Pulse Propulsion. It's the same technology used in nuclear weapons. It's asking a lot to be able to harness that awesome power without blowing ourselves up or contaminating ourselves with radiation. Plus, politically it would be difficult. We would have to negotiate an exception to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
There's an interesting article about all this stuff here:
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/08/how-long-would-it-take-to-travel-to-the-nearest-star/
There are other reasons for developing android technology which I'd like to get to in a future post. One of them is the creation of more widespread sexual satisfaction via fuck-droids. It's an exciting prospect that deserves our attention.