Elon Musk seems to be the front runner these days.
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There will never be space exploration because of the vastness of space even traveling at the speed of light. In time our night sky's will become empty and we will only see the stars in our galaxy. Because all those billions of other galaxies are moving away from us faster than we are traveling through the universe.
At best we will travel to local planets or comets and moons. But we will never find extraterrestrial life unless they are hiding near by.
I asked a question elsewhere.
If we are using telescopes to look at galaxies billions of light years away from us and supposedly looking at the early formation of the universe. Then why can't we point the Webb scope in another direction and see the galaxies behind us?
We aren't the center point of the big bang. So if we can look back at old galaxies why can't we look forward at new one's?
There could be a galaxy with a planet that is maybe a few million years behind our development. e could send a probe to meet it as it is moving towards us (not away like every galaxy is supposed to be doing?)
The red shift hypothesis is currently falling apart as is the big bang theory so stuff might not be moving away after all.
You're right about the mind boggling distances around us.
Time is the biggest enemy of interstellar travel and unless some huge miracle happens it won't be possible for us to do it.
It's looking like we're probably locked in and alone!
The two voyager craft are heading away from the nearest stars to ours and it's estimated that it will be a million years before they arrive at another star... it's doubtful they can survive that long.
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In time our night sky's will become empty and we will only see the stars in our galaxy. Because all those billions of other galaxies are moving away from us faster than we are traveling through the universe.
The only stars we see in the night sky are the ones in our own galaxy and it will stay that way
If we are using telescopes to look at galaxies billions of light years away from us and supposedly looking at the early formation of the universe. Then why can't we point the Webb scope in another direction and see the galaxies behind us?
We aren't the center point of the big bang. So if we can look back at old galaxies why can't we look forward at new one's?
There's no 'in front' or 'behind us' unless you mean in terms of older or younger. We can only look back in time not forward in time. But you might need to ask an astrophysicist to get a better explanation - have you tried Quora?
A) if we lived in a static universe (no red shift) then everything we see will still be from the past because light takes time to reach us. Hence we can never "see" into the future.
B) Living in a red shifted universe means that all objects are moving away from each other - observing the universe from another galaxy it will still seem that everything was moving away.
C) Living in a blue shifted shifted universe means that all object are moving towards each other where we might predict a big crunch at some point in the future.
A) if we lived in a static universe (no red shift) then everything we see will still be from the past because light takes time to reach us. Hence we can never "see" into the future.
B) Living in a red shifted universe means that all objects are moving away from each other - observing the universe from another galaxy it will still seem that everything was moving away.
C) Living in a blue shifted shifted universe means that all object are moving towards each other where we might predict a big crunch at some point in the future.
So we're not the center point of the big bang right. say we are traveling on axis Y there are a billion galaxies moving in front of us then there are maybe another billion galaxies travelling in the same direction on the same axis Y behind us. I know the image we see could be from x millions of years ago. But lets say there's an earth like planet travelling 65 million years behind us on the Y axis and it roughly evolved at the same rate as out planet give or take a few million years, If and a big if we had the technology to build a space Telescope and send it out into space like we did with the Webb telescope and we could capture images of the planet. Would we be able to look at dinosaurs roaming that planet or even a more advanced civilization than ours.
We are near to making another huge technological jump forward with nano tech and computer power and abilities. AI will soon be working out and how to make warp drive engines
