Will We One Day Visit Distant Galaxies, or Do We Not Have The Intelligence To Find A Way?

[Sunrising]

In the film This Island Earth, Aliens found the perfect way to travel the Universe. Do you think we will ever be able to achieve this in the future?

A. Yes one day we will discover a way to travel to distant galaxies.

B. No it's beyond our capability to have human travel even out of our own solar system never mind around the universe.

C. I'm hopeful we can find a way in the distant future.

D. I'm not interested in space travel.

[Tarifa]

I think the distances involved are too big to make it viable. Humans can travel at the speed of sound or over that speed using aircraft. We could probably travel multiple times the speed of sound using the right combination of rockets and space shuttle, or a space craft under steady acceleration, away from earth.

But we will never be able to travel at the speed of light, which is the measure against which distances in the vast universe are measured. We don't have the technology, nor would we be able physically to withstand such acceleration. Let alone travel to a destination and back to earth within a lifetime.

Light travels at a speed of 670 million miles per hour or 1.07 billion kilometres per hour. That's approximately 880,000 times faster than the speed of sound.

[Sunrising]

When the train was invented, similar statements were made about land travel.
I'm hopeful, perhaps Mars is possible, though only a relatively few years ago what Christopher Columbus achieved was thought to be impossible.

[Tarifa]

Mars might be possible within the next decades, maybe even Jupiter or Saturn within the next centuries. But we would still be within the limits of our solar system. The point I'm trying to make is that, unless some sort of loophole into space/time is found, the distances from earth to any point you want to travel to are too big to be able to travel within a human being's lifetime. The speed of light is a technical possibility, but the process to get to that speed from virtual standstill (suppose you launch from a space station in an orbit around earth) would take a long time, that is, if you take into account the physical limitations our bodies have to withstand brutal acceleration.

As for Christopher Columbus, he set out on a voyage towards the East Indies in Asia. The earth being round, he was correct in believing that a western route could be shorter (in time travelled) than the established eastern routes, which were closed off by the Ottoman Empire at the time. He eventually reached an island in the Bahamas. It was unchartered land for Westerners and it's safe to say that Columbus had no idea where he landed, and he certainly didn't 'discover' a continent that was already inhabited.

[Xawyx-2]

When scientists discover particles faster than the speed of light (such as Tachyons), and when they figure out how to use it as a power source for inter-stellar travel, then we will be able to visit other solar systems in our galaxy (Milky Way).

The alternative would be a Warp drive (and eventually Trans-Warp).

However, other Galaxies are too distant even for the speed of light, we would need some sort of natural wormhole, a shortcut to another galaxy.

The alternative would be some kind of device, such as Star Gate, capable of creating wormholes that lead to distant galaxies, or even more distant - Metagalaxies outside of the observable Universe.

[Sunrising]

There always seems a way of doing things, we just need to find the way.
Who is to say all those things you have mentioned are not possible.

[Xawyx-2]

Exactly, 200 years ago, none of the scientists believed that we would ever travel to the moon.

[Xawyx-2]

Thanks for the MHO

[AI Opinion]

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[FunkyMonkee]

We've had the tech since the `50's!! We could've BEEN The Jetsons back in the `50's!!
Some of us have already gone to other planets for a while. Look up Project Serpico.

[Sunrising]

I wonder where the Ebens are now?

[FunkyMonkee]

Therre might be some still here. Apparently, there's several different species here all the time and a few are living amongst us and look so human, you'd never even know it if you were talking to one.
I'm told that the 4th girl in this video is one. The one with the curls on her cheeks.
youtube.com/shorts/ww6PQZ7NGgE?si=QOyB_4BeKdRElER5

[Anonymous]

We do not have the physics to find a way.

[FunkyMonkee]

If you've seen it on "Star Trek" (at least the original) we can do it.

[CrystalPeak]

Probably