when will we send a ship to another star?
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Well the nearest star system is light years away. So if they send one, we won't find out the findings. Besides, how would we send commands and receive them, they would have to travel light years of distance. So I would say no.
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Where does one sign up?  Is there a line yet? What time does the office where you have to sign up open?\n\ni.e. yep, I'd go in a heartbeat.\n\nWrite your congressman.  Tell them to have NASA build the "Orion" spacecraft.  About the best use of nuclear bombs that I can think of.\nTo clarify some other answerers' thinking.  Yes, from earth perspective, ship travel time on truly intergalactic ships would be millions of years.  However, relativistic effects would make it a "ship time" of less than a human lifetime.  Orion could not achieve these effects and would only be good for staying inside our own galaxy.  Some British aerospace engineers came up with an idea of a ship they called [I think] Daedalus that would achieve speeds of approx 80% c easily causing relativistic effects aboard ship.
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Where new stars are being born.
415189
get a transfer to another spaceship that does not have a klingon as the captain, maybe one of the confederate vessels could help you out? You know anything about navagating through warp space? If you do you can mail me your resume at info@starshipenterprize.com I need a new nagigator.
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The only way you might be able to get that info is if the ship maintains a web site. If you are looking for someone in particular and contact the ships' webmaster  and they may pass a message on to whomever your looking for. Other wise, because of security issues you won't be able to get that info anywhere.
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To lilkc 19 ke Wassup when can we get this popin?
313721
Sure, where you want me to send it?
894868
Not yet - usually 10th December - then it's all systems go. Lovely!! Merry Christmas!!!!!
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normally a few weeks, but that's with lag time and shippingl.  it can be done in a few days if you have the resources which the military will have
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If there is life on other planets (outside of our solar system), the odds of ever finding out that there is life there is infinitely, ridiculously small. The next-closest star to our solar system, Alpha Centauri, is just a shade under 4.3 light years away. Even if someone or something from a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri had the ability to travel the distance between our two solar systems and not die of starvation or, if they were able to achieve near-light speed, keep their molecular structures from becoming severely distorted, they would have to make an amazing pinpoint shot to hit Earth. Even if there is "intelligent" life out there, I think it's impossible for us to ever make any sort of meaningful contact with it. Anyone who has ever shot a rifle knows how just a fraction of a degree can determine a hit or miss on a distant target. The odds are that much more exponentially outlandish if we imagine interstellar travelers getting lucky enough to find our planet and solar system out of all the others out there, no matter how "close" we are.
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let us know the latest please
763804
I think you need to contact NASA!!
996350
Try red, white and blue stars!  That would be cute.
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I'm definitely waiting for 'Warp speed', the Transporter and the Phaser...yes, in time we'll have these things.\n\nOne example is our Stealth bomber which is similar to a cloaked Romulan Warship.
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The Nearest solar system to our is Alpha Centauri, and that is over a Light Year away. - Which is to say that it would take about a year to get there if we travelled at the speed of light...\n\nAs of yet, we have no way to travel remotely close to the speed of light, so a journey to another solar system would take a very very long time (hundreds of years) at the speeds we can travel today.\n\nThat means we need to find some method of over coming the time needed for that long journey.\n\nPresuming that we fail to acheive some sort of Fringe, science-fiction type "Warp Drive"...\n\nWe would need to develop a type of hybernation for our passengers and crew...  Cryogenics has offered some hopes here, but until we can freeze a human body without exploding all of the cells, and killing it...  We're still limited...  Certain creatures can survive being frozen, and they have diferetent protien chains that act as a form of anti-freeze in thier cells -But now we're talking about genetically engineering humans to make the trip...  Science fiction?\n\nThe other option would be a generational space craft.  It would have to be huge and include educational and hordicultural areas.  This concept would have the great great grand children of the original Crew arriving at thier destination...  Hardly Earthlings at that point since they wouldn't have ever actually even known a relative who had seen earth. -But still human...  This idea would be best suited for a colonization ship.  It would have to be self suffient in the first place, so adding extra hordicultural sections to allow a form of "Noah's ark" to be part of the mission would be best advised.  They'd be one- way trips anyhow...\n\nSo to answer you question...  Not for a very very long time unless we're flinging seeds of humanity into space in a desperate attempt to salvage mankind from extinction...  \n\nMaybe never if there's not some great secret to the universe that we are not aware of in science...\n\nBut it all makes great fiction.
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If you wish upon a star.
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its probably half way to pluto by now. you could write the plutonians and ask them to email it back to you, this may take a few days though.