TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

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Originally posted by imagtek
A manned starship to an exo-planet system within the lifetimes of people now living is a high probability if we do not destroy ourselves.

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That is the problem with Star Trek, they made interstellar travel look easy, so people failed to develop an appreciation for the massive distances involved.

The fact is, in 2015, human beings have not risen above Low Earth Orbit (about 250 miles) since 1972, 43 years. The Russians have not been able to do a soft landing with a rover on the Moon. China has made a soft landing on the Moon but their rover quit moving before 500 feet. The Europeans have no manned program and don't have any plans for many decades. The US is the only space-faring nation. That is on a budget where Americans spend 6 times more on pizza than the whole NASA budget. The plan right now is to let the International Space Station de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere in 2024, just about the time TMT is operational. The Russians say they will decouple the Unity module first and build their own space station around that. The Chinese are supposed to start on their own large size space station next year.

NASA JPL does have a page for the interstellar warp drive. There are lab experiments going on, the EMdrive is being tested. But if you look at the energy required, it will be obvious that interstellar drives will take decades of research and development.

TMT is needed for finding more planets with better resolution. Here is an example where scientists didn't take observation artifacts into consideration:
http://gizmodo.com/the-closest-exoplanet...1739744448
The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Was Probably a Ghost

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