What kinds of aliens could the Oort cloud harbor?

The Oort cloud stands between Earth and Alpha Centuri just 4.5 LY away.
Centuri will be are stepping stone to the rest of the stars.
By the time our space ship is 1 LY out it will have reached its top
speed of 73% of light. At this speed there is no fast slowing
down or sharp turns. Knowing this begs the question. Will the Oort cloud
create a dangerous problem? Best to keep in mind the Titanic was
destroyed for going to fast. Bert

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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The Oort cloud stands between Earth and Alpha Centuri just 4.5 LY away.
Centuri will be are stepping stone to the rest of the stars.
By the time our space ship is 1 LY out it will have reached its top
speed of 73% of light. At this speed there is no fast slowing
down or sharp turns. Knowing this begs the question. Will the Oort cloud
create a dangerous problem? Best to keep in mind the Titanic was
destroyed for going to fast. Bert

But mass increases as one approaches such speeds. Surely this increased
mass will protect the ship as it is going so fast.

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
The Oort cloud stands between Earth and Alpha Centuri just 4.5 LY away.
Centuri will be are stepping stone to the rest of the stars.
By the time our space ship is 1 LY out it will have reached its top
speed of 73% of light. At this speed there is no fast slowing
down or sharp turns. Knowing this begs the question. Will the Oort cloud
create a dangerous problem? Best to keep in mind the Titanic was
destroyed for going to fast. Bert


All those craters we saw on that comet Tempel 1 tells you something
about what you might run into out there!

Double-A

"Mark Earnest" wrote in message
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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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The Oort cloud stands between Earth and Alpha Centuri just 4.5 LY away.
Centuri will be are stepping stone to the rest of the stars.
By the time our space ship is 1 LY out it will have reached its top
speed of 73% of light. At this speed there is no fast slowing
down or sharp turns. Knowing this begs the question. Will the Oort cloud
create a dangerous problem? Best to keep in mind the Titanic was
destroyed for going to fast. Bert

But mass increases as one approaches such speeds. Surely this increased
mass will protect the ship as it is going so fast.

It makes things worse. The relative mass of the stuff you
hit goes up, so even dust specs become dangerous, not to
mention the radiation produced by things like the solar wind
particles impacting the hull.

Mark since when does more mass protect mass. Reality greater weight and
greater speed produces greater impact. Beert

Hi Double-A Well they tell us the space of the solar system was much
more crowded 2,5 billion years ago. Looking at the Moon, Mars and the
Moons of Mars proves that thinking. It would be nice with all are
viewing of our moon and Mars if we saw a meteorite crash on their
surface.(No luck so far) Like the way the Shoemaker-levy comet hit
Jupiter. I would like that. Beert

Double-A wrote:

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
The Oort cloud stands between Earth and Alpha Centuri just 4.5 LY away.
Centuri will be are stepping stone to the rest of the stars.
By the time our space ship is 1 LY out it will have reached its top
speed of 73% of light. At this speed there is no fast slowing
down or sharp turns. Knowing this begs the question. Will the Oort cloud
create a dangerous problem? Best to keep in mind the Titanic was
destroyed for going to fast. Bert


All those craters we saw on that comet Tempel 1 tells you something
about what you might run into out there!

Double-A


The orbit of Temple 1 is completely inside the orbit of Jupiter,
Shirley.

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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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Mark since when does more mass protect mass. Reality greater weight and
greater speed produces greater impact. Beert


I figure that the increased mass at near light speeds would not mean that
more atoms are gained, but that individual atoms would become heavier, and
thus more resistant to impact.

Art Deco wrote:
Double-A wrote:

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
The Oort cloud stands between Earth and Alpha Centuri just 4.5 LY away.
Centuri will be are stepping stone to the rest of the stars.
By the time our space ship is 1 LY out it will have reached its top
speed of 73% of light. At this speed there is no fast slowing
down or sharp turns. Knowing this begs the question. Will the Oort cloud
create a dangerous problem? Best to keep in mind the Titanic was
destroyed for going to fast. Bert


All those craters we saw on that comet Tempel 1 tells you something
about what you might run into out there!

Double-A


The orbit of Temple 1 is completely inside the orbit of Jupiter,
Shirley.

--
Official Associate AFA-B Vote Rustler


Sure, it is now. But the original orbit of Tempel 1 was most likely
much greater before it was affected by the gravitation of one of the
planets.

Double-A

P.S. An actual on topic astronomy post! I'm really surprised, Art.

Mark Earnest wrote:
"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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Mark since when does more mass protect mass. Reality greater weight and
greater speed produces greater impact. Beert


I figure that the increased mass at near light speeds would not mean that
more atoms are gained, but that individual atoms would become heavier, and
thus more resistant to impact.


Keep thinking, Mark.

I like the paradoxes you're leading us into!

Perhaps it is dilemmas like these that have caused physicists to drop
the term "relativistic mass".

Double-A