Space Travel Propulsion. - Tree of Souls - An Avatar Community Forum
Tree of Souls - An Avatar Community Forum
Tree of Souls has now been upgraded to an all-new forum platform and will be temporarily located at tree-of-souls.net. This version of the forum will remain for archival reasons, but is locked for further posting. All existing accounts and posts have been moved over to the new site, so please go to tree-of-souls.net and log in with your regular credentials!
Go Back   Tree of Souls - An Avatar Community Forum » General Forums » Science and Technology
FAQ Community Calendar

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #24  
Old 06-09-2010, 01:05 AM
Dreaming Of Pandora's Avatar
Dreaming Of Pandora Dreaming Of Pandora is offline
Karyu
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Ireland
Posts: 1,379
Default

Cryogenic stasis for travellers is more realistic yet unrealistic because right now the only thing we can freeze and unfreeze that's still alive is a toad. The human brain seems to break down on a cellular scale when unfrozen so we're a while yet to discover how to keep travellers alive when in cryo.

Interstellar travel is really unrealistic in my opinion. Yeah that's probably pessimistic but space is not space, we know it's not just A to B in an X amount of time, there's so much variables when it comes to space travel and when the distance is large, so are the variables. For instance (and this has slipped the minds of many optimistic people who believe that Mars is achievable right now), solar radiation. Just the few million miles out of Earth orbit can kill travellers because there's no magnetic field to deflect the Sun's deadly radiation. Armstrong and Buzz we're lucky to have survived the Moon Landings as Earth's magnetic field stretches out to the Moon which protected them from much of the solar radiation, there's no protection when in interplanetary travel. Major radiation shielding is needed for travellers to withstand the many months out of the solar system. This is just one of the many problems facing space traversity.
Reply With Quote
 


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


Visit our partner sites:

   



All times are GMT +1. The time now is 10:57 PM.

Based on the Planet Earth theme by Themes by Design


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2022, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
All images and clips of Avatar are the exclusive property of 20th Century Fox.