do you think that in the future we may go to the Andromeda galaxy?
916031
Humanity will be lucky if they get a viable breeding population established off planet to ensure Human survival in the face of natural or man-made disaster here on Earth. You probably haven't got a chance to even colonize your Moon or Mars.  Over the centuries, your planet was a curious place to visit once or twice and was not considered very interesting . Sure, your wars showed us how undeveloped you are as a species.  Your infantile,(in cosmic terms) dependence on god concepts does not bode well for you and neither does your penchant to breed beyond your planet's ability to sustain you. We are now showing an interest in you because it is not often that we get to observe a species commit suicide. You are so close to maturing as a sentient species and it will be a shame to see you kill yourselves. There are just not enough of you becoming rational enough to force the issue. You let the least among you determine your fate, so be it.
376755
Nope, nothing that we have found will be coming very near us on that date.  Just to give an update on the object the Braxton_Paul mentioned, 2004MN4 (now designated 99942 Apophis), has pretty much been put into the clear for the close approach in 2029.  It will come close, but unless something funny happens to the orbit (collision, unexpected outgassing phase etc), it will miss us.\n\nWhat we are trying to get a fix on now is the next close pass by this bad-boy: 2036.  We can't rule out an impact probablitity for that encounter yet.
1161682
Almost nothing would happen to the earth in such a collision. Galaxies are made of stars, gas, and dust. The stars are lightyears apart and the gas and dust are very diffuse. Also, the collision would occur over a periof of millions of years.\n\nThe main effect of galactic collisions is an increase in star births from the increased density of the gasses and dust. There are almost no collisions except close to the cores of the galaxies (where the stars are more dense).\n\nThe ANdromeda Spiral galaxy is heading our way and should collide with the Milky Way,but not for a couple of billion years. Don't worry about it.
441225
We are one of many planets surrounding a star at the edge of a Galaxy which contains billions of other stars.  There are many other galaxies in the universe with about the same amount of stars and planets.  I think that we would be naive to think life does not exist anywhere else.  I don't know if we will ever be able to travel the distances required to find out.  Technology will have to develop a considerable amount for that.  But, considering what we have accomplished in the last 100 years, we may do it.  Maybe not in my lifetime, but in yours or your children's.
463075
Aliens as we see in our movies, no.  But I wouldn't presume to think that we are the only living creature in our galaxy.  It's only a question of time and where.  Considering the time and distanc involved, we may never meet.
805923
the international space station currently has three crewmembers in it should be completed by 2010 with the last missions of the space shuttles. next nasa will go back to the moon by 2020 and plans to leave men their for extended periods of time. after that would come manned missions to mars and then to other planets and moons. we could colonize more of our solar system in the not too distant future, but eventually we will learn the secrets of interstellar travel. Then we can go to other, more earthlike planets across the galaxy and accross the universe. at that point we might even find some other intelligent life. that would be cool.\ngo to nasa.gov, orion is the program that will get us back to the moon and then to mars.
620196
In this huge galaxy called the Milky Way, the posibilities are great. The problem is knowing were to look and being lucky to find that "needle in a hay stack".\n\nWe're here, and maybe if other beings exist, they may never find us either.\n\nThe answer is to believe and continue to explore our galaxy with optical and radio telescopes. And untill humanity can explore fisicaly and populate other worlds, or just stay here and awate the end of life.
396208
i do because there are many galaxies are there. but you just wait because in the next 20 years we'll  be able to detect alien life forms other than our planet because if there are those aliens are trying to contact with us by waves (like we use on our planets for example, radio waves.) there is evidence that life used to exist on mars. not like life like us (like mircoscopic things). there are many stories that aliens have come to visit our planet. can be true because as they are as they are described in the movies all these phonomenons are happening buts its not possible for us yet to go visit another galaxy. not eveough human years. but in the next upcoming years we'l have ships that will be able to jump into time. as we are doing right now for example, when a space shuttle stays in orbit for atleast a year, they jump into time by 3.8 seconds. its hard to believe but its true . in star trek when they jump into time there using those worm holes. they exist but there so damn small that we have to enlarge them. there smaller than an atom. as phsyics desribres its not possible to go as fast as the speed of light it'll be possible in the next upcoming years. (i dont no when though) but if we go any faaster than the speed of light we'll be crushed by the gravity so that is why we'll be using worm holes and that is one way that we'll be able to visit other galaxies. i hope i stay alive doing that time lol
659001
Sun has finished its half of age and after some billions of years its gonna die. In the same way earth will be getting cooler it is gonna die.\n\nSun is a star. It will become a red supergiant. It's size will increase tremendously and it will gulp down mercury and venus. The temperature on earth will be unbelievable. Then it will become supernova and then there are three chances for sun to become 1. nebula  2. Neutron star or the worst nightmare 3. black hole.\n\nAbout dying here this one too. If the night sky is clear and with your naked eyes if u see in the right direction u can see andromeda galaxy - which is light years away. It is said that billions of billions of billions of years after...one day milky way (our galaxy) and andromeda will clash\n\nOr else talking about earth if not after billions of years when earth will die may be a little earlier ya earlier than sun becoming the red supergiant...the life especially human life may be in a serious danger. The threat is of asteroid impacts in 2014 or 2029 or 2880 or adverse climatic change in 2100 or another ice age!\n\nThere is a theory of Wormholes. Through these we can travel from one point of the universe to the other with a speed more than or equal to that of light. May be then we will be able to go somewhere.
1071714
I don't know when the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy was last measured, but today it would be less than 2.5-million light years because it's been approaching our galaxy (the Milky Way) at some 300 km/sec. Therefore, a FTL trip towards Andromeda would take something less than 2.5-million years.
749195
I think they will be on some other planet.
126942
Not anytime soon, no. First, we have to send people back to the moon and then do manned missions to Mars before we can go that far into the solar system!
778940
Events that we think will happen in the future?
193508
There could possibly be. Isn't it a little ridiculous to think that in all the galaxies that we are the only humanoid lifeforms? whether or not you believe in God!
1107979
Definitely.  In only a few billion years our sun will expand and make our planet uninhabitable.  Long before that things will get very difficult for life on this planet.  Evolution of communities of organisms that can travel interstellarly is essentially impossible without intelligence.  The only real way for this experiment in complex life to persist in this universe will be through the actions taken by humans and posthuman intelligent life.  Without the evolution of intelligence, life is doomed to live out a fairly short span of time relative to the duration of the universe in its current life-friendly status.
920829
I think likely it will be a physical encounter ;\nThe reason is if you consider how far we have come in the last 50 years think of how far a species could have advanced in a million years after acquiring space travel capabilities.\nThere aree several reason another space faring species likely ar either aware of us or close to being so.\nIt stands to reason there would be billions of species which would not have had the turmoil our ancestors had on earth, thus enabling them to advance further.\nThere would have to be millions of species which never adapted the religious fevers our ancestors did and thus they did not have their entire civilizations in bondage to myths.\nThere has to be millions of species on millions of planets who would not think like humans but act instead more like insects (ants, bees, ect)  in which the entire species would act in sequences together and not splintered as earthlins are.  This would increase their chances of space travel even lignt speed and beyond by 1,000,000 %.\nIn planetary societies where the entire species worked together to futher space travel and colonlization we  would be very inferor were they to meet us.\nThe universe is so large in itself that the time when will humans meeting another species is going to happen because there has to be already so many space faring species out there..  It's not if.  It's when. And they may very well be watching us now for possibilities.  \nA species bent only on survival in mind and colonization would hardly consider us worth negotating wiith for peace.  The may well not under stand anything byut their own survival and expansion.
1164495
Star Trek was one of the first science fiction concepts that didn't predict an apocolyptic future.  \n\nIf we don't dream in ideals like this, we have no chance of figuring out the interim steps we need to take to get there. \n\nSo I believe, yes we could and we will.  Either voluntarily or through great conflict we will arrive at the same conclusions that Gene Roddenbery has come to.  Mind you, he consulted many extremely foresightful people to solidify the concept.