Until a black hole swallows you up
or our galaxy crashes into another or any of our local stars go supernova. Then everyone dies, everything gets fried and there is literally no trace of what once was.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:42, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

We might have moved into another galaxy by then
We might have found out how to control supernovas.

We might be all dead, but we might not. Whatever we do today will decide our future.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:44, Reply)

Intergalactic travel is never going to happen I'm afraid.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:46, Reply)

unfortuantely true
they are just too fucking far away
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:48, Reply)

That's why people laughed at Columbus
We only need the knowledge and time.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:50, Reply)

we'd need to be able to fundamentally bugger about with the laws of physics and space-time

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Well, sort of
Space-time travel is not explicitly forbidden by current physics. It's just that the energies required and the length scales involved are phenomenally large and incredibly small respectively.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:00, Reply)

was trying not to get too sciency :-P

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I'm very sciency by nature!

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:02, Reply)

me too, but I try not to let on

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Just think of all the people who tried to get humans to fly
and how many more laughed at them or "proved" it impossible.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:13, Reply)

~2,500,000 light years away
If we can go faster than the speed of light, which isn't even mathmatically or theoretically possible at the moment, that's still a long time before we get there.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:54, Reply)

Or we find a wormhole
I know, I know. But it could be.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:56, Reply)

nearest one is 25k light years
Andromeda is the nearest spiral at 2.5 million
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:01, Reply)