Our journey towards the stars

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