Interstellar travels

ressources*

>>8929396
Yes

>>8929409
b..but earth is so small and the universe is s..so b..big

>>8929412
This system consists of more than just Earth. But Small Earth would be more than enough to enable an even smaller man to take a long jurney to one of the closer stars.

Universe is big. Define "far far"

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>>8929432
The new habitable Kepler, for example. Kepler-442b. Or any other habitable place.

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>>8929439
With todays technology + 20 years of whole US budget and 20 years to research would get you a space probe that should survive a 10 000 year trip there.
Hey, it's not that long once you become a posthuman AI.

Is time a resource?

Is the ability to build a vessel capable of going extreme lengths of time with on maintenance a resource?

>>8929534
I don't think transhumanism will be in full swing in 20 years, nonetheless posthumanism.

Posthumanism is engdame civilization; it still advances yes, but once you cross the threshold into it, you can no longer even speculate. We could wipe out our entire galaxy or hop universes; the possibilities are too fantastical to bother hypothesize.

>>8929534
>10 000 years
you know it's a time that human civilization needed to evolve? You are not planning to send humans there, are you?

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>>8929596
>mfw posthumanism and transhumanism are the subjects ONLY for philosophy
nice try

>>8929603
What?

>>8929661
only philosophy deals with those terms
no one else considers it a serious scientific issue
>AI
yes, the greatest achievement are some bots on twitter who can entertain and "learn"

>>8929737
What would be the proper terms for the technological states mislabeled as trans or posthuman then?

>>8929396
Why would you use resources on Earth if you were going to another star?

In general, most proposals for interstellar travel require utilizing space resources. There is the breakthrough starshot project, but they only propose sending a very tiny spacecraft.

Project Daedalus, one of the most realistic studies to date, required thousands of tons of helium 3 mined from jupiter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus

>>8929534
>>10,000 years
we don't have electronics that can function for over 10,000 years. At such long timescales problems such as dopant diffusion through solid silicon arise.

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>>8929396
If say we could effeciently create antimatter rockets, there would be huge potential in those. The particles emitted from the nuclear reaction process could accelerate a ship fast and far. The only problem is how to create usable amounts of antimatter and how to safely contain it so it doesn't kill everyone.

In short, yes, we have enough resources, we just need to know how to utilize it and create an efficient manner to put it into realistic use.

Another cool thing would be to in theory create a wormhole.

>>8929825
>Why would you use resources on Earth if you were going to another star?

Because travelling to another star requires resources? What do you suggest, magic?

>>8929843

wat

Isn't this purely theoretical?

>>8929596
But it sure will in less than 10 000. The probe computer would be just a little more advanced than New Horizons. Also no brakes. It would still be a part of our civilization and a sense.
I just suggested the least futuristic and least resource consuming approach to get there.

>>8929599
>human civilization needed to evolve
That's why I expect something else to be here after the probe reaches the target and sends the signal. If sending anything else than humans does not count as travel to you or OP, then the question is shit. Evolution is not stopping here and sending humans to another star is pure sentiment, retro sci-fi, no utility.

>>8929830
A lot of redundand closks that activate when their brothers fail. Finaly clocks wake the main computer when the time comes. A cryo beauty sleep for the circuits should do the trick.

>>8929737
I don't even know what those terms mean, but that dismissal of AI is quite shortsighted.
It will probably take more than 20 years but we will have robots able to do exploration on their own, maybe not yet as intelligent as we are, but definitely able to perform a reasonable mission.
Included the ability to make new stuff and maintain and repair the ship.

>>8930092
I'm with you on this one, got a question from another angle.
What you've just described, would you consider that "life"?