100-Year Starship Project Forges Ahead With First Round of Funding

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this is a necessary step to insure humanities survival, seeing how an extinction level event is only a matter of time, cheers

Yes! Antimatter engines and solar-sails could work together assuming the ship was hurled at the sun and gravitationally ejected from the solar system. I don't think we should bank on just antimatter alone though.

It is our consumption of Earth recourses and our non ability to manage our waste polluting by products that will doom planet Earth and us in the process. If we could venture out into outer space and develop the means of managing an artificial environment solving the problems of recourses and waste pollution by productions, then there is hope for human kind.

Yes, we must venture to outer space and establish ourselves. In maturing this human developmental goal gives humanity its future hope of survival!

I gladly volunteer to be part of this 100 year journey, too!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!

I can guess people are already submitting designs for ships. But this could turn into something very interesting. I would like to imagine that we could reach interstellar travel within my lifetime. New planets, new discoveries; such a great undertaking.
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

I watched the lunar landings as a boy... i recall reciting almost the same exact words as Artex for most of my life. Something like "I would like to think that within my lifetime we'll be landing people on mars at least". I'm 49 now, and i hear the younger generation saying the same things that me and my friends use to say about spaceflight, medical advances, etc... It's been 50 years since the moon landings. Life expectancy hasn't changed much since then either. Oh yeah we got computers and cell phones and pads and notebooks... full a bugs and too complicated for the average joe to use to its fullest potential. The tech basically still in its infancy. We got MRI's and Obumacare and stem cells and genomes and all sorts of medical breakthroughs... but the majority of us will still pass in or 80's and 90's.... just like my granparents(who lived in the stone age) did. I too would like to think that within my lifetime I'll see some sort of great adventure to somewhere farther than earth's orbit, Artex. All I can say is that, i hope the next 50 years brings less smoke and mirrors and more real life practical accomplishments than the last 50 years has brought. Yes, i know we're building our knowledge base. I know that one day all this great tech is gonna pay off and its all gonna come to its fruition. As for now though.... 50 years later... still waiting on that next giant leap.

Today's magic is tomorrow's technology.

They say it won,t look like the enterprise it wil not travel like the enterprise and it won,t move like the entreprise, so why do they show a pic of the enterprise. Its only a 100 year starship because thats how long they project to fund and build one, not how long someone will live or travel on one. Big duh! I can grant you this given a choice of space travel and staying at my natural and gravity wise earth home. I choose home. Lots of air, lots of water lots of women of choice and lots of booze. Hands down I,m a earthling all the way. Lots of beef too. Beam me down Jim. If I had all the universe to choose from this world called earth is where I plant my seeds. And my engines never get warped.

in 20 years or less we will be able to transfer our consciousnesses to "avatars" that could live for 1000's of years. these avatars could be robots or cyborgs. that we will be able to travel to nearby star. the singularity is near!!!!

"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"

-Killah Priest

Sweet! Now all I have to do is live to 130!

mr negative jimmy, thanks for letting us know it will take a hundred years to build it, ever hear of not stating the obvious, however, it is just an estimate @robot...our consumption is not a threat to the earth, just us, the earth will be here alot longer than us, cheers

@jedi...maybe 20, 100 years, who knows? cheers

'Interstellar' travel... 4 years at light speed to Proxima Centauri and I'm reasonably sure there's not even anything interesting there...

How many years at our current rate of acceleration? Anyone know? Factor in deceleration time.... total time for a one-way trip, just to the nearest star, mind you....

Anyone?

Robotics, Cloning and Mind Transfer technologies are the future of space exploration. That's the best possible way of space exploration.

Money is nothing, Science is everything.

Now I'm not supposed to talk about what I read at work, but since so many are interested; put the $500k in your hottest longterm deposit account for 75 years and put your request in for an appointment to see an assistant secretary, then a secretary, then a Lading Negotiator, then a Translator; and THEN, after your initial appointment fee, which your investment/deposit covers; you get to be considered for an appointment with an actual Guild Navigator.
Now like I said, I'm not supposed to talk about what I read at work, but apparently there was this Duke that had to relocate his base of interplanetary operations, and he had armies and fleets of ships and all manner of massive craft; and this organization that we never hear of called the Spacing Guild moved them to their new planet without a hitch. Solid performer in transport. Got a Hugo Award, if I remember correctly. So yeah, I'd try this for sure, if only as a redundancy for other travel plans.

ummmmm, what ever happened to "build the enterprise in 20 years for only a trillion$ USD", that seemed like a good plan to me

drchuck1,
I agree the rock Earth will always continue.

My point was humanity and its continuing actions may cause a large reduction in population, with the consumption of recourses, combine with humanity ever increasing pollution.

But, yes the Earth will continue, we agree.

@roboninjosh
That's a different project. But nothing wrong with crowd sourcing ideas. Maybe even turning the trillion $ Enterprise into the 100YSS.

@Robot
The Earth NEEDs a population reduction. Can't believe how many idiots are out there. Waste of space and resource. Just saw on the news yesterday that some guy has 20 something kids with 7 different women. He can't afford child support so he's asking the government for help.

antaro,
A natural reduction of human’s population upon the earth is ok. An unnatural sudden reduction of human population is not. In your suggestion of Earths 'needed' population reduction, are you volunteering to go first and soon?

On a side note: I wish you to be well and to enjoy a long life, sir.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!

Your assumption that the Earth will always continue is flawed. Have you ever heard of an asteroid belt? All it takes is one collision by an appropriately-sized object (which do exist) to create a minefield.

And why do you assume that Earth NEEDS a population reduction? When America has the same population density as India, I think there would be a cause for concern about shortages; however, the attempt to predict a food shortage is akin to saying the sky is falling, especially when we have the capacity to grow more but are limited by finances. In short, scarcity is invented. Throwing billions of dollars at this project could be better spent here, on us, to improve our lives and the environment. I guess it's better to complain without putting forth any effort to remedy the problems we created; it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy to validate our concerns, brought about by our inaction.

By the way, none of us are getting out of here alive. We can't be civil enough to one another here; shooting first and asking questions later being our slogan for alien encounters, we deserve to be shot out of the sky before we spread our hatred of the unfamiliar and that which has yet to be dominated.

Our "hatred of the unfamiliar" is what has kept us alive for so long. And before you blame humans for that all creatures great and small prefer to help things the most like themselves first. And generally work the least cooperatively with things the most unlike themselves. Its not evil, its nature and its sensible. Don't assume everything else in the universe is different than that, it would make no sense for it to be different.

I mean I do understand why someone has been trying to teach self hatred to people, I just don't understand why they accept it.

nasa's main financial support is like small toddler that spent its older brothers money on dum projects. now that the toddler is grown up it sees the bigger picture and wants a piece of the pie, its old toddler traits come out. but it must act its age and wait to get its piece of the pie. time to go to work nasa and im talkin -real fisical work not just yappin its mouth off-. "work nasa while you wait", to have any success face the bull man...."man up".

$500,000 is not a lot of scientific money. This may pay for a scientist and an assistant, plus their research lab fees.

let me put in to point nasa's failure- history repeats itself-
its like nasa's main financial support is a todler who spent all of big brothers money on dumn projects, then it later sees the whole picture and wants a piece of the pie too. but it has to wait face the bull and wait so, time to act your age work while you wait.
ohh nasa thanks for the new hi tech material in mattresses thats a start....................now as for leaving this planet and colonizing another one let me tell those supporters of this dream-like future propsal. try to maintain, correct, improve your standard of living on earth enviroment wise so you could have a desent reputation. or else the out come of colonizing mars and having it as a success would fail. i dont consider colonizing mars for a year then becoming extinct is a success or a success for that matter. until then keep dreaminmg

Unfortunately, Humanity just isn't ready to venture out into interstellar space. We are too warlike and aggressive to go exploring new worlds and meeting new civilizations (sorry for the Star Trek quote).

We need to change within ourselves first and sort out the terrible mess we have created here on Terra Firma before we go spreading the same problems around the Universe.

As a species go, we are in an embryonic stage. We are not even a type 1 civilization, only a type 0.78. We need to unite as a species, put our petty difference behind us and then we can evolve and then explore the Universe.

We also have to shake off the power and influence of the global elite (the 1%). Who's power and greed know no bounds and would gladly keep us all stuck in a rut for their own selfish purposes.

On a more lighter note, if they ever manage to get it done earlier than 100 years and I'm still around I would like this music to be played when the ship is unveiled and the bottle of champagne is smashed on the hull: (type this into YouTube - Wonders of the Solar System Score - Soaring (Extended)