yes, but funny enough it seems to be somewhat accurate, in a strange twisted sense. I enjoy to watch stuff from Harald Lesh, who is a rather prominent physicist in Germany - kinda the German version of Carl Sagan I guess. And now while someone like Michio Kaku loves to impress people with "what is needed to make a lightsaber" or his ideas and possibility on fast-then-light travel, you know Warbdrive and such things, Harald Lesh doesnt get tired of bursting bubbles by explaining the realistic side of interstellar travel and the actuall limitations of our real world which will make it extremly difficult, some serious scientist place the workability of todays theory to 0.1%, while also thinking about the future here. I mean take the math and principles of aerodynamics as example which go back as far as to the seventeenth century - modern aerodynamics that is! Just because ...
In 1726, Sir Isaac Newton became the first person to develop a theory of air resistance didn't mean that this would have allowed anyone to plan their trip to the moon for the coming year. We are only scratching on the surface with things like the
alcubierre drive. As Harald Lesh loves to say, the fun an fascination for his profession (astrophysicis) kinda stops when people ask him "so, how long will it take till we reach the stars?" and when he starts to explain people the obstacles that we have to overcome and that realistically we should not expect something like that to happen. And those obstacles are not only the limitation on speed with light-speed as limitation and the extreme distances in space where light requires million of years to travel from one star to the next one. Space is for it self an extremly inhospitable place, deadly infact, and that even if you are inside a space ship sitting around our planet, because prolonged zero-gravity can cause serious health issues and we are not even talking about stuff like radiation and such. Already today astronauts can feel the effect of a few weeks and months in space. The muscles, bones and organs start to suffer a lot over time.
So yeah ... physicists that take their jobs seriously can somewhat ruin the day for normal people, simply because they know more about all this space stuff then we do. Hence why some find it so unbelievable that so many people are looking to the stars for everything, as like it would be some solution, hey! Fuck up earth! Who cares! There are literaly billions of other planets out there and one might be just like our planet. Well. Good for us. Bad for us, that we might have a chance to visit those other planets maybe in 1000 years when we finally have the technology to do it. But we have a very good chance to make our world a hell to live in in the next 50 or 100 years. At least for us. But hey, we are humans. We love ignorance, dont we?
LIFE As Seen by Cynical - in this case not Alec.
by Aliyaho Pearce
*And I am still positive about space exploration, because no real scientist says that it is impossible, like faster then light travel, which is really impossible, but overcoming the distances is not - see alcubierre drive, the math is understood, and it is possible within all the limitations of our physical world and not some kind of mathematical construct that exists only on paper and there are still a lot of secrets out there that might eventually allow such interstellar travel in the future. But interstellar travel still in our century? That might be to much to expect.
