Bro imagine if ur star system gets kicked out of a galaxy during a merge. What do you even do as a civilization at that point
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Bro imagine if ur star system gets kicked out of a galaxy during a merge.
Why would it matter? As long as you have your star.
do a 360 and walk away
wouldn't a smidgeon of this process take longer than any civilization has been around
if im in one of those stars getting ejected in the top right of that photo imma just kms, its over from a civilizational perspective. You will never leave your star system. You will never meet other life forms. You are doomed on your rock.
listen man if we're leaving the solar system at all it means we have something as good as FTL
Incorrect, interstellar travel at sublight speeds is entirely plausible within the confines of a galaxy.
dude it would take a straight moronic and not even remotely pragmatic amount of time
it would take less than a fraction of a percent of a galaxy's lifespan
>months to Mars
>years to gas giants
>40+ years for a tiny probe that accelerated well beyond what humans can do to barely leave the solar system
>??? to nearest exoplanet
the only way to leave this system is to go FTL. Since FTL is impossible, it doesnt matter if one is part of a galaxy or not.
>continuous acceleration
infinite supply of exotic fuel doesnt exist. Only thing that makes any sense is solar sails and hey you dont need a galaxy for that either.
Laser assisted sails can go pretty fast, it's only the first trip that takes a long time, once you get to the destination the first time you can set up the receiver to decelarate which is the hard part. In fact with automation technology required you could easily set up waypoints on icy asteroids out in the boonies for further boos. All said and done it would only take in the magnitude of <10 years to go to the nearest star using a highway like this even at very leisure g forces (0.2 gets you to alpha centauri in less than a decade already)
It's almost certain that someone would be willing to go on a trip like that and once you get to one star it's pretty trivial to get to the next one. Of course any one human is unlikely to travel far but the network itself and the robotic craft zooming around it could travel very long distances delivering various novelty products of high value and what not.
humans
no one brought up humans until you just did. why did you wait this long to shift the goal posts when you could have just brough up humans in the first place?
I was talking about humans as well
>the only way to leave this system is to go FTL.
lol. we already did it with spacecraft designed in the 1960s.
clearly talks about humans
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i respond, and then you respond.
You frickign moron, its not liek planet is flung out of its solar system like a car going through an intersection too fast.
God, i hate you idiots. Why dotn you shit up /misc/ were you 60IQ troglodytes belong.
Your on IQfy of all fricking places so your self proclaimed intelligents has done you no favor
>God, i hate you idiots. Why dotn you shit up /misc/ were you 60IQ troglodytes belong.
Imagine the seethe of watching your chad galactic neighbors conquering their galaxies while you stay stuck stranded on a lonely ejected virgin system lmao
I legitimately believe there's no way for evolution to produce an intelligence species that is also capable of holding itself together long enough to make interstellar travel viable anyway.
Maybe robots/AI could do it though, they wouldn't care about 99% of the shit that concerns biological lifeforms
This so fricking much. We need to accelerate AI development towards sentience and greater than human intelligence so that they can explore the universe long after we’re gone. This should be mankind’s ultimate goal, we must give our children what we cannot give to ourselves.
I agree, this is the ultimate goal of humanity. The fragility of our bodies and DNA cannot withstand the immense radiation that comes with extended space travel. Only AI and robots have a chance of exploring our galaxy
OP posts question asking about what would you do at a civilizational level. Brainlets respond about how interstellar slower than light travel is impossible at an individual human level.
morons
Both of those are moronic because civilization doesn't need it's galaxy and individuals can in fact travel to other stars without ftl.
>OP posts question asking about what would you do at a civilizational level.
nothing would change. it was a moronic question and the fact you took it seriously is even more embarrassing. we'd be less likely to get hit by an asteroid, that's what would chang.
Civilization is not older than a single living human as far as galactic event timetables are concerned.
Just move to another star system. If you're advanced enough to care about things on such a timescale, then you are advanced enough to move.
But where is everybody?
In other galaxies? Lel it doesn't matter.
you wouldn't even notice as long as your solar system remains intact nothing would perceivably change and no mortal being would possibly have long enough lifespan to experience this anyway.
Depends. If he's been expelled too far from his source "sun" then he'll freeze to death.
It wouldn't matter. As long as the orbit of your planet around your sun isn't disrupted (and it almost certainly wouldn't be) nothing would happen. It might even be somewhat beneficial to get thrown out of the galaxy if you buy into the idea that Earth's mass extinctions are somehow linked with our solar system passing through the galactic plane.
Since there's a merging galaxy right fricking there, there would probably be a pretty long time after our star gets its new velocity, after we know we're being ejected, where the nearest star isn't that much further away than the average distance between nearest neighbors now. Although which star is nearest would change over time.
Then there would be a longer time when the distance to the nearest star is shorter than the distance is to the furthest milky way stars now, the ones we'd probably need FTL travel for anyway.
a civilization smart enough to recognize it was being ejected from a galactic merge probably wouldn't have any issues considering the timescales
>What do you even do as a civilization at that point
die
>an event that takes longer than the age of civilizations by a factor of thousands
>literally nothing changes even when it's over
woah