Quote Originally Posted by WBA1955 View Post
A journey to Mars would take seven months. Considering all the plans they had for the Moon, and then never bothered with it, how much stuff would they need to take to colonise Mars?
I hope mankind never leaves this planet, we have done enough damage to this one.
Here's a scary thought, there might not be another planet anywhere else in the universe capable of supporting life like ours.
The nearest, most habitable planet to Earth is thought to be Proxima Centuri Des which using present technology would take us 6300 years to get to.

The Egyptians were just getting up a head of steam 6000 years ago which gives an idea of the timescale.

You’d need to live to a hundred 63 times over and be travelling at full velocity the whole time.......mind boggling.

I don’t know if anyone realises this but when the Apollo capsule was coming back to earth it was travelling at almost 8 miles per second😲

Think about that......8 miles every second so that’s Cornwall and back in one minute.


And it’s still nowhere near quick enough to make Stellar space a viable travel option.