Post on 29-Jan-2018
And the part astronomy plays in the chaos that will occur
OUR JOURNEY TOWARDS THE STARS: THE FUTURE OF THE CIVILIZATION
ARE WE ALONE?
• Radiotelescopy– Frank Drake
• SETI - Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• Quantum astronomy
FERMI’S PARADOX
• Why haven’t we heard anybody? (60’s)
• Civilizations?
• Inteligence?
• Technological civilizations
HOW TO FIND US?
THE DREAM SOCIETY
• Optimism Rolfa Jensena
• Gradual stupidification of the civilization
• Less investment in education
• Social collapse – Western Roman empire
• Without foundations for further progress
DEVELOPMENT SCHEME OF THE CIVILIZATION
• Technological civilization • Dream society• Empathical civilization• ?• Cataclism
Today’s situation
Decided in the next 15 years!
IDEAS
• Slavoj Žižak: shooting the antipatical ones
• Jared Diamond: organisation with nature or collaps – eating up the foundations
• Dimitrij Orlov: pesimism
• Digital immortality
• Earth is our spaceship
KARADAŠEV’S TYPES OF CIVILIZATIONS
• Division according to the civilization’s energy consumption
1) Civilization type 1 – home planet
2) Civilization type 2 – home star
3) Civilization type 3 – home galaxy
HR DIAGRAM
DYSON SPHERE
• Freeman Dyson (previously worked on space stations)
A NEW HOPE
• Roberto Vacca
• Transformation
• Cycles from 300 to 1000 years
CRYPTS OF TIME
• Svalbard
• Ozymandias project
UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIOSPHERE
• Homo sapiens as an appendix of the evolution
HOW TO DESTROY A CIVILIZATION FROM THE OUTSIDE?
• Celestial body impact
• Gamma ray outburst
• Death of the Sun
BACKUP OF THE CIVILIZATION
• Copies of genoms and the biosphere in independent systems
TERRAFORMING OF MARS
• 2.5 – 3 million years
THE FUTURE
• Technology of 3D printing
• Modeling out of asteroids
• Self-replicating robots
WAY TOWARDS THE STARS
• τ Ceti, ε Eridani – 50 light years away
FUTURE DESTINATIONS
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TELESCOPE KEPLER
MODELS OF STAR SHIPS
• Dedalus – fusion of helium 3 – 5,6 tons to Alpha Centauri
• Orion – fission
• Bussard – space dust vacuum cleaner
STARGATE
• Perhaps possible – quantum astronomy
VOYAGER 1 AND 2
IN IDEAL CONDITIONS
• After 500 years – two stars
• After 2000 years – ten stars
• After 3 750 000 years – the entire galaxy
WHY HAVEN’T WE SEEN ANYTHING?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovski: „The Earth is the craddle of mankind, but one cannot live in the craddle forever.”
Anton Perkov