Travel in space

well just got back from space camp and im that much closer to space.

I want to travel, with the highest speed, knowing that light-speed propably can’t be reached. I want to feel the zero-gravity. I want to see our planet from space. to see the sun near of other stars. I want to search other star systems. There must be other planets.

I belong to the Universe.

Now just give me various non-GMO seeds, a Wii, 3 playmates of the 90’s, a zero-gravity jacuzzi, an electronic music studio, a voodoo teacher, a monopoly, a crazy robot, ... and a spaceship.

it has been a passion for most of my life.
I guess it is related to why i feel like an
alien to this planet sometimes.

I’m easy to please a week or so orbiting the earth will suffice. Even better would be a trip to the moon, do a few orbits and return to earth.

I think the odds are astronomically low for this “goal.”

It’s my dream one day to be among one of the astronauts who take the first steps on the red planet, Mars.
One day maybe we can even expand to the asteroid belt, to one of Jupiter’s moons Europa, and then on to other solar systems such as Alpha Centauri. I’ m dreaming of a galaxy teeming with human civilization, hopefully in harmony with other beings we are bound to meet. Yes, it may seem like a star wars fantasy to some people… but I believe it.

How did I miss this?

Articles about Gliese 581c are dated mid to late April of this year. Still for some reason I’ve only learned about it today.

A habitable planet in a Goldilocks orbit around a red dwarf, 20 light-years away. Practically down the block, astronomically speaking.

The orbit is 13 days, and the planet is 50% bigger than earth, and the estimated mean temperature is between 0 and 40 C. It orbits a red dwarf. I don’t know how fast it’s spinning, or on what axis.

There could be water oceans, but even so the likelihood of there being an entire PLANET of potential space, with a surface area more than twice that of earth, boggles the imagination.

Twenty light-years. Let’s assume we can build something that can go 100 times faster than Voyager 1, or 1/6th light year per year. A small craft could be in orbit in 120 years. Assuming there’s a way to send a message that’ll get back to earth, we could be looking at pictures of it taken by a robotic explorer ship there within 140 years.

Of course, I suppose we should get the hang of managing our own planet before we go traipsing off to colonize a new one. But it’s sort of nice to know there may be a Long Shot species survival scenario open to us, if we really make a mess of things on Earth.

Well, I dunno if the price has gone up, so that’s all I’ll need to book a flight on a Russion spacecraft :). The (much) easier thing to do would be to be abducted by aliens and they allow me to remember everything :).

Moving forward that is. When I was a kid, I wanted off this rock more as an escape than as an adventure, but would have taken both. Either.

Now, it’s more of a curiosity since I don’t see space travel as a thing for the masses. It’s barely a thing, as we move into a world of growing environmental unfriendliness and warfare.

So I continue to choose space travel as an imaginative holdout, a topic, and an ideal. So what?

I’d still hop a flying saucer, any old day. In my head.

Just read the news that Charles Simonyi, a Microsoft billisonaire, went to the space at the age of 59. The trip cost about $25 million.

I hope I can do this once in my life time. For that to happen, the space travel will have to become very cheap (less than $500K?) or I will have to become very rich (net worth more than $100m?).