https://www.sciencealert.com/this-glorious-map-helps-you-keep-track-of-every-space-mission-in-the-solar-system

Unfortunately Voyager 6 hasn't been launched. Or fortunately, depending if you want V'ger to turn up or not.

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Do you have a point or nah?

Oh ok, gotcha.

But I’m not arguing if the war will happen I’m arguing that it is good for progress if it does.

I just realized what your argument is - i misspoke. I meant interplanetary warfare

Rutan's Space Ship 1 went to space in a suborbital hop. FAA hands out space wings for suborbital flight

Just for context, getting to the nearest solar system takes 4 years if you travel at the speed of light (186,000 m/s) and crossing the galaxy will take ~100,000 years. From then on, it’s millions of years to the next major galaxy.

Iirc we haven’t even reached 1% of light speed. So unless a revolution happens very soon, I don’t think intergalactic war is in the cards

That would be a function of technology as SSTO ramjets are developed

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Not saying today. But in the near future after arrival i believe so

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I predict there will be orbital hospitals with artificial gravity where you would give birth and raise the kid before they actually go back down to the surface .

I’d beg to differ. Distances between planets are vast, let alone galaxies.

I never said it isn't possible entirely. I mean I don't think it's possible right now. How quickly do you see current governments being willing to give up their sovereignty?

I think this leads to intergalactic war

Also I thought we decided it wasn’t Chinese.

We're not going to. Robots and remotes are getting better and better, there will be no need for us to go there at all before long - aside from the obvious need to get off the planet due to things like asteroid collisions, that is.

For exploration though, robots can (and will) do it better than we can.

Stable orbit is both a velocity and an altitude. Orbital velocity is dependent on orbital altitude. The absolute minimum before Earth's atmosphere interferes too much is 160 kilometers altitude at 17700 mph. Higher altitudes mean more velocity is needed to be in orbit.

Voyager will return in a few hundred years going by the name V’ger.

We need a concrete set of international accords describing the process for claiming, capitalizing, and changing the orbits of interplanetary resources. Space capitalization would be an incredible step forward for human rights if done correctly because a lot of the conflict on earth is centered around control of strategic resources. The limitless supplies of the asteroid belt would alleviate that stress. On the flip side, miners could get treated like slaves if the companies feel as though they can do that. International law should also maybe be a little more concrete

Either Hayabusa or Stardust. Hayabusa collected samples of asteroid 25143 Itokawa from beyond the orbit of Mars and returned to Earth. Stardust collected samples from comet 81P/Wild, also beyond the orbit of Mars, and returned a capsule to Earth. I can't find the exact distances but it's one of those 2.

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