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Newtons laws are incomplete. Using the known laws of physics and off the shelf components the new engine technology can get there in 50 years, maybe 40.
Accelerating to such speeds is only part of the challenge. You then need to slow down at the other end of the journey unless you're fine with shooting past at incredible speed. Slowing down takes as much energy as it takes to speed up.
I mean.. we went from wagons to the moon in a few hundred years. Apply a few million years at the same rate of development. It's probably more of a question if the earth can handle humanity for that long to sustain that kind of innovation.
One of the most notable projects is Breakthrough Starshot. This initiative proposes using light-propelled nanocrafts, tiny spacecraft powered by powerful ground-based lasers that would push them to a significant fraction of the speed of light (around 15-20%). If successful, these probes could reach Alpha Centauri in approximately 20 years. They wouldn’t carry humans but could send back crucial data and images, providing the first close-up look at Proxima b and potentially confirming its habitability.
Radio communication travels at the speed of light, so we should be able to detect radio signals from advanced alien civilisations. They may not be able to physically travel to us but we could still receive their radio transmissions. However, so far the universe seems completely silent of intelligent radio communication. That makes me think that intelligent life is incredibly rare, it might also be the case that even simple life is incredibly rare. If so, we need to take a lot more care of ourselves and our planet. Life may even be unique to Earth. We just don't know, and I've never bought intothe mindset that thinks intelligent life is widespread throughout the universe.
Sometimes at night, I imagine myself floating through the solar sistem. Such a relaxing feeling! A beautiful solar sistem transformed a bit by my brain. With more light! 😁😁😁
And as big as we imagine our solar system to be its really very minuscule to when we raise our hand and stick it out into infinite space. Imagine. Its gonna take a chemical rocket 6 or 7 months just to reach Mars and even THAT hasta have perfect timing to visualize its closest approach to us... otherwise it will take years. Yeah think about it. Light travels less than a foot per nanosecond. And a nanosecond is a billionth of one second.. Its not even a trillionth of a second.. one terabyte in the other direction, folks.
Also account for the shorter day/night, and year because they'd have to be closer to the star. This means the gravitational pull will be stronger, forcing the year on the planet to be shorter and the day/night cycle to be a few hours. This is something our species could not handle immediately. We are adapted to a slow and calm 12 hour day/12 hour night and 365 days in a year. But, Earth wasn't like this 4.5 billion years ago. Back then a day was only 6 hours! 3 hours of sunlight and 3 hours of night.
@@Casperthegatorthe gravitational forces have zero to do with the star in that system, lol. Neither do the length of days. Both of those are completely related to the planet. I mean, look at the planets in our system alone. Us at 24 hours for a day, Venus around 240 days I believe, Jupiter is 10 hours. The year could be shorter, but that wouldn't matter nearly as much. Also, the gravity from a red dwarf is less than our sun, which means that it wouldn't necessarily mean a fast year either. For trying to sound smart, you sure sounded ignorant.
Pretty simple, really. At 100% C it would take 4.3 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our system, in fact even a bit longer if you consider the time it would take to accelerate/decelerate to and from that speed. Our current technology isn't even anywhere close to having a vessel that could reach 0.1% C. So it's a journey of thousands of years at our current best technology, and that's even IF we could build something to withstand the trip without getting destroyed or lost.
Good video. I enjoyed it. One correction at 6:53, light travels at 186,282/mps, not 86,322. 186,302/mps was stated in the audio. Otherwise, it was a good video.
As is mentioned in the video, perhaps the biggest barrier ro interstellar travel is the fact that space is not empty. At, say, 50% c, collision with a speck of dust would annihilate any spacecraft
great video! really enjoyed the explanations and visuals. but i can’t help but wonder if we’re focusing too much on Alpha Centauri when there might be closer star systems that could have planets worth exploring. it feels like we’re putting all our eggs in one basket. what do you all think?
it's hard for people to get their head around how big space is. This is one of my favourite bits of trivia that highlights it: despite light being "really" fast, it still takes the light from the Sun about 8m20s to reach Earth, about 5.5 hours to reach Pluto. Tell all ya friends 😄
“There’s more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt in your philosophy” In other words. There is technology that exists that we are not aware of. Are these Navy pilots imagining these crafts that pop in and out of existence?
A few hundred years ago, we thought the fastest way to travel the sea was on it. So we kept thinking how we could make faster ships. Then we discovered we could travel above it and everything changed. We are still thinking about traveling the distance of space like the sea. Someday, i hope we discover we could traverse it a different way.
you obviously didn't listen to what the guy said, there are no restrictions to building things on earth because we live in the very same atmospheric conditions that we evolved into, to build a spaceship to go to alpha centauri you would have build in space to overcome the difficuties of escaping the earths gravity with a vehicle big enough to carry enough people and equipment to populate a new planet, that is if you got there alive.
It's not the speed that matters, life extension and rejuvenation is the secret sauce, methuselah ships and gardener ships are realistically the only way to send a colony ship to another star that doesn't succumb to massive intergenerational mission shift, and even a sleeper ship is susceptible to mission shift if it involves a skeleton crew, it only requires one awake shift to have a mission shift, so that can be ruled out.
You don't get to dictate and unilaterally decide how publicly owned resources and taxpayers' dollars are allocated. Wealthy nations *SHOULD* continue investing in space exploration, rocket technology, communication satellites, space telescopes, and land-based observatories. Great powers with large economies; e.g., the US, China, the EU, Japan, Russia, India, and the UK provide research grants and educational funding with public-private investments in a variety of STEM fields. Public expenditures on space programs do not preclude states from also spending on research and development in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, cleaner energy, and transportation infrastructure.
We should expand into the solar system and to the Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud, not to mention going to nearby stars, because the material preconditions of offworld settlement indicate massive shifts in socioeconomics that will probably have an effect on Earth that is similar to the post-WW2 consensus around embedded liberalism and welfare statism in the West that arose as a result of the USSR's rise to superpower status. If you want to improve conditions on Earth, you have to give up Earth.
We should expand into the solar system and to the Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud, not to mention going to nearby stars, because the material preconditions of offworld settlement indicate massive shifts in socioeconomics that will probably have an effect on Earth that is similar to the post-WW2 consensus around embedded liberalism and welfare statism in the West that arose as a result of the USSR's rise to superpower status.
Having recently watched two series on current UFO research (on Netflix and MGM+) I have hope.. If in fact we have been visited by extraterrestrials, that means they have figured out how to travel in space. Hopefully they will share that knowledge before we self-destruct.
We are alone. The good news is we know how to make life on earth last for a very long time. The bad news is greed will keep us from doing the things we must do to keep humanity going.
This is also why I believe that we have never been or ever will be visited by intelligent life from other parts of the universe. They have to obey the same rules of physics that we do.
Sorry but the interstellar missions you are describing are flyby missions. If you actually want to visit Proxima Centauri you need to attain orbit around Proxima Centauri, which you cannot do under any circumstance with any technology.
Space travel between Earth and Alpha Centauri can not be done with conventional technology. It can only be accomplished through time travel. We are not there yet. The universe is vast. Some systems are hundreds of light years away or many more. HD1 is 13.5 billion light years away from Earth. We are limited by biological brevity and technological insuffiency currently.
It's not tough at all, We just don't have the technology yet. Once we do, sometimes in the far, far distant future, we will have the technology, we can get there within minutes. Technology to go faster than light speed and the big bang speed. Probably in a few million years or billion years if our species manage to last that long.
How about inventing a #NeinsteinDrive..? It would nullify Einsteinian physics by basically reformatting #SpaceTime to operate within a pocket of space where lightspeed is adjustable within the space occupied by your spaceship, and by converting the hyper-radiation from super-luminar atomic collisions into the required infinite energy levels for FTL travel by funneling it into a #NeinSpace engine intake and using it to invert spatial dimensions into motion in and out of linear time. That way, you get to travel the galaxy and still get back in time to see yourself off on your original journey if you choose. I know it works, because I just invented it... "In my mind..." LOL! I'll let myself out now...
Proxima B’s star, Proxima Centauri, does have frequent flares, which could make it tough for life to survive there. It’s one of the reasons why scientists are still unsure if it’s a good candidate for colonization. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Set off with current technology it would be far quicker to head to stars racing towards us.Barnards star will be closer then alpha c in 10 thousand years and its coming our way all the time
This is why videos such as these are completely redundant! No point in punching things you can't see. So there's no point talking about planets no one will ever reach
"Why is it so hard to get to Alpha Centauri?" Answer- Because it is 25 trillion miles just to get to Proximo the closest of the 3 stars of Alpha Centauri. If I recally math correctly. The Enterprise D at Warp 9(9,099 times the speed of light) still takes nearly two weeks to traverse that distance.
Unless the planet has a super magnetic field to prevent the strong solar flares, it'd be a fools errand to go there. Not to mention, it's tidally locked, meaning habibility would be in a very narrow region of the planet in perpetual light.
Why did the cosmic chicken cross interstellar space? To escape the consequences of violating the laws of physics. As much as I'd like for our species to spread across the universe and create whole new civilizations, let's not forget what we have within our own tiny corner of space. Developing the means to establish a presence through the solar system while using ever advancing telescopes and whatnot to further study what's out there will pay off. Humans being humans it may take a catastrophic reset or two but we have the potential.
The challenge is not how fast we can go, or how quickly we can get there. The challenge is can a human civilization survive in a tin can long enough to still be alive when they do. If we can tackle the challenge of surviving in a biodome, reproducing and thriving, without overcrowding, and having the ability to maintain the ship for the duration, then we can get to Alpha Centauri, and beyond.
Many thousands of years to reach the nearest stars, more to 'Call back to Earth'? We currently have general knowledge of Earth history going back 3 or 4 thousand years, but the further back we go, the more generalised it becomes. In 10,000 years or so, would we have any records available of having sent a spaceship to go to another star?
Yes, it's true that sending a spaceship to another star like Alpha Centauri would take thousands of years. As for records, it's hard to say. Over long periods, like 10,000 years, history can get lost or become unclear. But if we keep advancing technology, we might find ways to preserve those records better or even continue the mission, leaving a lasting mark for future generations. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I get where you're coming from. But everything we know about Alpha Centauri and space travel comes from science research, telescopes, and missions, not just fiction.
Wait, if 11 years to Andromeda is 2.5m years on earth. Would it not be possible to arrive in Andromeda and see eartling that have left lets say 20k years after us already arrived in more advanced tech?
BUT Star Trek's "warp drive".....by all arguments "WARPS SPACE TIME" that is WHAT "warp drive" MEANS!!! Think of it like making a paper fan, folding each fold of paper against itself, from one end of the sheet to the other! THEN stick a needle into one side of the paper through the pile TO THE OTHER!!! Basically you are NOT "traveling faster than the speed of light" as much as you are folding "space time in on itself" and taking a shortcut THROUGH IT!!!! At this time dilation becomes irrelevant, and in the "gravity well" created by the ship....space would simply "move around you" meaning mass would no longer be a factor either, both in theory!! AND THIS is what people get WRONG about talking about "Star Trek" on the science level!! Because the Star Trek ships are NOT "moving faster than light" as much as they are "jumping from point to point" through space as a "material", i.e. in my example Needle through PAPER!! THAT IS what "warping space" would do!!
Why do we still talk about time in measures of years that are defined by the earth’s rotation around the sun, when we are discussing distance across space? There has to be some measure of time we can use that is more relevant to the universe. Our little insignificant planet should not be the subject of time unless we are discussing things that happen on our planet. Maybe this thinking is limiting our very understanding of time.
Why so hard to get to alpha centauri you ask? Well if it's 4.3 light years away it would take over 10,000 years with our fastest rocket to get there. Simple as that.
Some video. Every shot has the astronauts fully space-suited. For 4 years? If I was in space for 4 years I'd want to wear as little as possible. You know be comfy. Take a shower even. I'd want my astronautette crewmate to be wearing as little as possible too. Send young healthy humans out into the void & I guarantee nature will take its course. Unless you spay & neuter every astronaut in the space program, which very few people will agree to.
Piensas asi porque nunca has visto una nave extraterrestre como yo y mi primo lo vimos en todo su esplendor con luces y todo sin hacer sonido alguno, levitando ahi enfrente de nosotros en el cielo a unos 50 metros de altura, en el año 1998 cuando fui a acampar a las afueras de mi ciudad Guadalajara Mexico. No porque tu no puedas hacer eso quiere decir que otro ser en el otro extremo de la galaxia no pueda o este incapacitado para hacerlo como tu.
Why couldn't you have just told us the answer first and then go into the details? People would still watch the video. I just don't like the method you are using
Quite profound how you mention the fact that no civilizations are visiting us (assuming they exist), is likely to mean fast enough interstellar travel can never be achieved.
@@Freerider93 So are you saying that any civilization that develops interstellar travel is not going to bother to use it to visit or search for other civilizations?
@@Zuringa even at the speed of light, space travel is likely a one way trip because of time dilation (travelers age more slowly than their home world). It also takes a ton of energy. So if an alien species devotes all that time and energy to visit another species, the question is why would they do that?
Cualquiera sea la nave y propulsión q se desarrolle, primero deberan ser probadas, en ida y vuelta, dentro de nuestro sistema solar. Hasta no lograr ésto, producir ese tipo de naves no tendrá un real sentido. Más allá de los ideales q se quieran considerar, trás cada verdadero desarrollo de la especie se debe hallar una necesidad, y dada la magnitud de o q estamos hablando, dicha necesidad deberá der notablemente poderosa. Aparte. Les recomiendo calcular el peso q puede desarrollar una nave cuya masa sea de, digamos, mil kilogramos, acelerada al 95% de la velocidad de la luz, para q sean un poco mas serios en este tipo de especulaciones...🧉🧐
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Newtons laws are incomplete.
Using the known laws of physics and off the shelf components the new engine technology can get there in 50 years, maybe 40.
Accelerating to such speeds is only part of the challenge. You then need to slow down at the other end of the journey unless you're fine with shooting past at incredible speed. Slowing down takes as much energy as it takes to speed up.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Having read that comment it means this video isnt worth watching. This key information should be in any video discussing interstellar travel
Just make sure not to call the ship the event horizon
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Lmao
It's a bummer we'll probably never explore the galaxy. There are so many things we'll never know.
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You never know.
"We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space." -anonymous
I mean.. we went from wagons to the moon in a few hundred years. Apply a few million years at the same rate of development. It's probably more of a question if the earth can handle humanity for that long to sustain that kind of innovation.
Baby steps. We'll get there. Sad that I won't get to see it, though.
One of the most notable projects is Breakthrough Starshot. This initiative proposes using light-propelled nanocrafts, tiny spacecraft powered by powerful ground-based lasers that would push them to a significant fraction of the speed of light (around 15-20%). If successful, these probes could reach Alpha Centauri in approximately 20 years. They wouldn’t carry humans but could send back crucial data and images, providing the first close-up look at Proxima b and potentially confirming its habitability.
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The one million question,planet earth has too many beautiful things to see,and what will human beings encounter on alfa centaury when they arrive ?
Radio communication travels at the speed of light, so we should be able to detect radio signals from advanced alien civilisations. They may not be able to physically travel to us but we could still receive their radio transmissions. However, so far the universe seems completely silent of intelligent radio communication. That makes me think that intelligent life is incredibly rare, it might also be the case that even simple life is incredibly rare. If so, we need to take a lot more care of ourselves and our planet. Life may even be unique to Earth. We just don't know, and I've never bought intothe mindset that thinks intelligent life is widespread throughout the universe.
Forget Alpha Centuari. Traveling to Mars is still tough today.
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Baby steps. We'll get there.
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Sometimes at night, I imagine myself floating through the solar sistem. Such a relaxing feeling!
A beautiful solar sistem transformed a bit by my brain. With more light! 😁😁😁
Sounds like a peaceful dream. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
And as big as we imagine our solar system to be its really very minuscule to when we raise our hand and stick it out into infinite space. Imagine. Its gonna take a chemical rocket 6 or 7 months just to reach Mars and even THAT hasta have perfect timing to visualize its closest approach to us... otherwise it will take years. Yeah think about it. Light travels less than a foot per nanosecond. And a nanosecond is a billionth of one second.. Its not even a trillionth of a second.. one terabyte in the other direction, folks.
With today's latest technology it would take 150,000 years to reach alpha centuri. So we can forget that!!!!!
Alot can change in 10 years
We could get there in 7000 years. Still a long time.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
The idea of crossing an ocean one thousand years ago would have seemed impossible as well.
That’s not that bad if ya do the math
So many stuff in space. And yet we cant get there.
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Somebody knew what they were doing with that thumbnail 😅
Anyone who visited there better pray that there are no giant solar flares, which are very common on red dwarfs.
Red dwarfs are actually terrible for life especially would be intelligent life
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Also account for the shorter day/night, and year because they'd have to be closer to the star. This means the gravitational pull will be stronger, forcing the year on the planet to be shorter and the day/night cycle to be a few hours. This is something our species could not handle immediately. We are adapted to a slow and calm 12 hour day/12 hour night and 365 days in a year. But, Earth wasn't like this 4.5 billion years ago. Back then a day was only 6 hours! 3 hours of sunlight and 3 hours of night.
@@Casperthegatorthe gravitational forces have zero to do with the star in that system, lol. Neither do the length of days. Both of those are completely related to the planet. I mean, look at the planets in our system alone. Us at 24 hours for a day, Venus around 240 days I believe, Jupiter is 10 hours.
The year could be shorter, but that wouldn't matter nearly as much. Also, the gravity from a red dwarf is less than our sun, which means that it wouldn't necessarily mean a fast year either.
For trying to sound smart, you sure sounded ignorant.
Maybe they make special sunscreen for that
Pretty simple, really. At 100% C it would take 4.3 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our system, in fact even a bit longer if you consider the time it would take to accelerate/decelerate to and from that speed. Our current technology isn't even anywhere close to having a vessel that could reach 0.1% C. So it's a journey of thousands of years at our current best technology, and that's even IF we could build something to withstand the trip without getting destroyed or lost.
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only massless particles like photons and gluons can travel at the speed of light and they don’t experience time because at that speed time stops
Good video. I enjoyed it. One correction at 6:53, light travels at 186,282/mps, not 86,322. 186,302/mps was stated in the audio. Otherwise, it was a good video.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the correction!
*I was just about to comment the same thing. Glad it was spotted.*
As is mentioned in the video, perhaps the biggest barrier ro interstellar travel is the fact that space is not empty. At, say, 50% c, collision with a speck of dust would annihilate any spacecraft
Good point. I never considered that. That’s like a rock hitting your windshield at speeds we can’t imagine.
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I love the sci fi notion of generation ships being sent out to distant stars, only to be beaten there by the next technological evolution.
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I thought about that fact often.
great video! really enjoyed the explanations and visuals. but i can’t help but wonder if we’re focusing too much on Alpha Centauri when there might be closer star systems that could have planets worth exploring. it feels like we’re putting all our eggs in one basket. what do you all think?
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alpha centauri is the closest, there are only 33 stars within 12.5 light years of earth so our choice is NIL.
it's hard for people to get their head around how big space is. This is one of my favourite bits of trivia that highlights it: despite light being "really" fast, it still takes the light from the Sun about 8m20s to reach Earth, about 5.5 hours to reach Pluto. Tell all ya friends 😄
Amazing, huh? And although our solar system is huge its also very minuscule as well.. all depending upon ones viewpoint
“There’s more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt in your philosophy”
In other words. There is technology that exists that we are not aware of.
Are these Navy pilots imagining these crafts that pop in and out of existence?
A few hundred years ago, we thought the fastest way to travel the sea was on it. So we kept thinking how we could make faster ships.
Then we discovered we could travel above it and everything changed.
We are still thinking about traveling the distance of space like the sea.
Someday, i hope we discover we could traverse it a different way.
you obviously didn't listen to what the guy said, there are no restrictions to building things on earth because we live in the very same atmospheric conditions that we evolved into, to build a spaceship to go to alpha centauri you would have build in space to overcome the difficuties of escaping the earths gravity with a vehicle big enough to carry enough people and equipment to populate a new planet, that is if you got there alive.
Are you suggesting we could fly above space? Never thought about it but I like the idea.
It's not the speed that matters, life extension and rejuvenation is the secret sauce, methuselah ships and gardener ships are realistically the only way to send a colony ship to another star that doesn't succumb to massive intergenerational mission shift, and even a sleeper ship is susceptible to mission shift if it involves a skeleton crew, it only requires one awake shift to have a mission shift, so that can be ruled out.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
We should fix problems on earth before visiting alien stars. A complete waste of resources.
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You don't get to dictate and unilaterally decide how publicly owned resources and taxpayers' dollars are allocated.
Wealthy nations *SHOULD* continue investing in space exploration, rocket technology, communication satellites, space telescopes, and land-based observatories.
Great powers with large economies; e.g., the US, China, the EU, Japan, Russia, India, and the UK provide research grants and educational funding with public-private investments in a variety of STEM fields.
Public expenditures on space programs do not preclude states from also spending on research and development in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, cleaner energy, and transportation infrastructure.
We should expand into the solar system and to the Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud, not to mention going to nearby stars, because the material preconditions of offworld settlement indicate massive shifts in socioeconomics that will probably have an effect on Earth that is similar to the post-WW2 consensus around embedded liberalism and welfare statism in the West that arose as a result of the USSR's rise to superpower status.
If you want to improve conditions on Earth, you have to give up Earth.
We should expand into the solar system and to the Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud, not to mention going to nearby stars, because the material preconditions of offworld settlement indicate massive shifts in socioeconomics that will probably have an effect on Earth that is similar to the post-WW2 consensus around embedded liberalism and welfare statism in the West that arose as a result of the USSR's rise to superpower status.
We already started…Trump won….
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For millennia to come a voyage to Alpha Centauri will remain science fiction.
100% correct. Well said!
I disagree, I reckon we could do it in 250 years
@@ianmatthews7385 yes that sounds about right ✅️
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Or, maybe the engine is already finished and it turns out that Newton's laws are incomplete. 🤔
We haven't even completely explored our planet nor have we figured out how not destroy the planet or each other. I guess it's nice to speculate though
Having recently watched two series on current UFO research (on Netflix and MGM+) I have hope.. If in fact we have been visited by extraterrestrials, that means they have figured out how to travel in space. Hopefully they will share that knowledge before we self-destruct.
We are alone. The good news is we know how to make life on earth last for a very long time. The bad news is greed will keep us from doing the things we must do to keep humanity going.
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This is also why I believe that we have never been or ever will be visited by intelligent life from other parts of the universe. They have to obey the same rules of physics that we do.
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The simple task of going back to the moon is still proving to be a long dream.
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16:00 A firefly!
If voyager 1 was launched in 40,000 BC, assuming it never powers off, maybe it will reach Proxima!
Did the thumbnail really say why so long and why so hard? 😂
We could travel but I dont see us going at the speed of light ever.
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Sorry but the interstellar missions you are describing are flyby missions. If you actually want to visit Proxima Centauri you need to attain orbit around Proxima Centauri, which you cannot do under any circumstance with any technology.
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Space travel between Earth and Alpha Centauri can not be done with conventional technology. It can only be accomplished through time travel. We are not there yet. The universe is vast. Some systems are hundreds of light years away or many more. HD1 is 13.5 billion light years away from Earth. We are limited by biological brevity and technological insuffiency currently.
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When you said how many miles per second it was, the number on the screen was a different number than what you said. 6:49
We barely had electricity 100 years ago, give development time.
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there isn't enough time left in the universe.
Maybe the option to travel there is not speed of light? We need a shortcut to proxima. Another dimension perhaps?
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299 million not thousand = c ( speed of light) . Great video though!!!!
It's not tough at all,
We just don't have the technology yet.
Once we do, sometimes in the far, far distant future, we will have the technology, we can get there within minutes.
Technology to go faster than light speed and the big bang speed.
Probably in a few million years or billion years if our species manage to last that long.
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To get up to, say, 1/4 c, it'd take all the energy in the world.
Then, what if we got there and there was no water, or air ?
How about inventing a #NeinsteinDrive..?
It would nullify Einsteinian physics by basically reformatting #SpaceTime to operate within a pocket of space where lightspeed is adjustable within the space occupied by your spaceship, and by converting the hyper-radiation from super-luminar atomic collisions into the required infinite energy levels for FTL travel by funneling it into a #NeinSpace engine intake and using it to invert spatial dimensions into motion in and out of linear time. That way, you get to travel the galaxy and still get back in time to see yourself off on your original journey if you choose.
I know it works, because I just invented it...
"In my mind..."
LOL!
I'll let myself out now...
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Sounds a lot like warp drives and worm holes. Are you sure it's your own non-plagiarized work?
Guys we just need to discover some Mass Effect relays.
Is Proxima B worth the trouble if its star flares up so often, making life pretty well impossible?
Proxima B’s star, Proxima Centauri, does have frequent flares, which could make it tough for life to survive there. It’s one of the reasons why scientists are still unsure if it’s a good candidate for colonization. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Set off with current technology it would be far quicker to head to stars racing towards us.Barnards star will be closer then alpha c in 10 thousand years and its coming our way all the time
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Just hope on warp drives! And that the fermi paradox is wrong!
Can’t even get to mars !!! Time dilation or warping would require enormous amounts of energy
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This is why videos such as these are completely redundant! No point in punching things you can't see. So there's no point talking about planets no one will ever reach
"Why is it so hard to get to Alpha Centauri?"
Answer- Because it is 25 trillion miles just to get to Proximo the closest of the 3 stars of Alpha Centauri.
If I recally math correctly.
The Enterprise D at Warp 9(9,099 times the speed of light) still takes nearly two weeks to traverse that distance.
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Speed and acceleration are two different things.
We will be talking about going to Mars and the moon 100 years from now 😂
If we are to encounter extra-terrestrial life, it will probably be their probes at best.....
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How long? Why so hard? I get asked this a lot.
Hehe. 😂
Unless the planet has a super magnetic field to prevent the strong solar flares, it'd be a fools errand to go there. Not to mention, it's tidally locked, meaning habibility would be in a very narrow region of the planet in perpetual light.
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Why did the cosmic chicken cross interstellar space? To escape the consequences of violating the laws of physics.
As much as I'd like for our species to spread across the universe and create whole new civilizations, let's not forget what we have within our own tiny corner of space. Developing the means to establish a presence through the solar system while using ever advancing telescopes and whatnot to further study what's out there will pay off. Humans being humans it may take a catastrophic reset or two but we have the potential.
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When our elites and secrets kept from us all decide to open up, then it will be possible.
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I would love to go
Recall that at one time not so long ago, aircraft approaching...let alone exceeding...the speed of sound would result in their destruction.
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The challenge is not how fast we can go, or how quickly we can get there. The challenge is can a human civilization survive in a tin can long enough to still be alive when they do. If we can tackle the challenge of surviving in a biodome, reproducing and thriving, without overcrowding, and having the ability to maintain the ship for the duration, then we can get to Alpha Centauri, and beyond.
@@robr177 us humans just want to fight... 😉
"A drastic technological leap," indeed ... . Nothing to it!
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Many thousands of years to reach the nearest stars, more to 'Call back to Earth'?
We currently have general knowledge of Earth history going back 3 or 4 thousand years, but the further back we go, the more generalised it becomes.
In 10,000 years or so, would we have any records available of having sent a spaceship to go to another star?
Yes, it's true that sending a spaceship to another star like Alpha Centauri would take thousands of years. As for records, it's hard to say. Over long periods, like 10,000 years, history can get lost or become unclear. But if we keep advancing technology, we might find ways to preserve those records better or even continue the mission, leaving a lasting mark for future generations. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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because it would take tens of thousands of years to get there
Everything we know about these stars isn't based in science, it's based in science fiction.
I get where you're coming from. But everything we know about Alpha Centauri and space travel comes from science research, telescopes, and missions, not just fiction.
We should resign ourselves to visiting the moon and Mars we cant go any where else.
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I think we should focus more on our own milky way galaxy. Instead of another galaxy.
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alpha centauri is in the milky way galaxy
Wait, if 11 years to Andromeda is 2.5m years on earth. Would it not be possible to arrive in Andromeda and see eartling that have left lets say 20k years after us already arrived in more advanced tech?
I have never heard the pronunciation "prox-zima" before, I always heard it was "prox-ima".
Both pronunciations can actually be used, but "prox-zima" is a more common way to say it, especially in scientific circles.
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So how much mass would a Ford have if you floor the gas pedal?
Because it’s so freaking far away and the fastest rockets are as slow as a turtle.
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0:35 And Vekta over there
It will never happen. The physical problems are just too monumental.
BUT Star Trek's "warp drive".....by all arguments "WARPS SPACE TIME" that is WHAT "warp drive" MEANS!!!
Think of it like making a paper fan, folding each fold of paper against itself, from one end of the sheet to the other! THEN stick a needle into one side of the paper through the pile TO THE OTHER!!!
Basically you are NOT "traveling faster than the speed of light" as much as you are folding "space time in on itself" and taking a shortcut THROUGH IT!!!! At this time dilation becomes irrelevant, and in the "gravity well" created by the ship....space would simply "move around you" meaning mass would no longer be a factor either, both in theory!!
AND THIS is what people get WRONG about talking about "Star Trek" on the science level!! Because the Star Trek ships are NOT "moving faster than light" as much as they are "jumping from point to point" through space as a "material", i.e. in my example Needle through PAPER!! THAT IS what "warping space" would do!!
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Star Trek is fiction.
Solo imaginamos 😅
Why do we still talk about time in measures of years that are defined by the earth’s rotation around the sun, when we are discussing distance across space? There has to be some measure of time we can use that is more relevant to the universe. Our little insignificant planet should not be the subject of time unless we are discussing things that happen on our planet. Maybe this thinking is limiting our very understanding of time.
Why so hard to get to alpha centauri you ask? Well if it's 4.3 light years away it would take over 10,000 years with our fastest rocket to get there. Simple as that.
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How about we make our planet better to live.
The sentence we all want to hear from our Girlfriends/Wifes;
How long? Why so hard?😂
Some video. Every shot has the astronauts fully space-suited. For 4 years? If I was in space for 4 years I'd want to wear as little as possible. You know be comfy. Take a shower even. I'd want my astronautette crewmate to be wearing as little as possible too. Send young healthy humans out into the void & I guarantee nature will take its course. Unless you spay & neuter every astronaut in the space program, which very few people will agree to.
No estamos en condiciones de llegar personalmente a Marte, el cuerpo humano no lo está...
We must continue to develop a better propulsion system (speed of light, warp, etc). Generational ships are not a good business.
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Piensas asi porque nunca has visto una nave extraterrestre como yo y mi primo lo vimos en todo su esplendor con luces y todo sin hacer sonido alguno, levitando ahi enfrente de nosotros en el cielo a unos 50 metros de altura, en el año 1998 cuando fui a acampar a las afueras de mi ciudad Guadalajara Mexico.
No porque tu no puedas hacer eso quiere decir que otro ser en el otro extremo de la galaxia no pueda o este incapacitado para hacerlo como tu.
@@tonycerpa8390 lo felicito sr
That's what she said...
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And what would we do when we got there?
With all the talk about the end times just around the corner, we won;t be here long enough to invent a machine faster than the speed of light.
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That's on religious nuts who say that, and have been saying that for 2 millenia now.
Get over the fact that there is no magical diety in the sky.
We are simply the only life in an endless universe 😂
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We can send robots there first
You don't know, nobody knows since we don't even know what's in the termination shock and beyond.
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8 inch. And perk 10s
I think if u listen to the whistleblowers out there we have the tech and it’s been covered up.
Send robots. They only need electricity.
Why couldn't you have just told us the answer first and then go into the details? People would still watch the video. I just don't like the method you are using
Quite profound how you mention the fact that no civilizations are visiting us (assuming they exist), is likely to mean fast enough interstellar travel can never be achieved.
The question is why would they come? It's already theoretically possible for us to get to proxima.
@@Freerider93 So are you saying that any civilization that develops interstellar travel is not going to bother to use it to visit or search for other civilizations?
@@Zuringa even at the speed of light, space travel is likely a one way trip because of time dilation (travelers age more slowly than their home world). It also takes a ton of energy. So if an alien species devotes all that time and energy to visit another species, the question is why would they do that?
Cualquiera sea la nave y propulsión q se desarrolle, primero deberan ser probadas, en ida y vuelta, dentro de nuestro sistema solar. Hasta no lograr ésto, producir ese tipo de naves no tendrá un real sentido. Más allá de los ideales q se quieran considerar, trás cada verdadero desarrollo de la especie se debe hallar una necesidad, y dada la magnitud de o q estamos hablando, dicha necesidad deberá der notablemente poderosa.
Aparte. Les recomiendo calcular el peso q puede desarrollar una nave cuya masa sea de, digamos, mil kilogramos, acelerada al 95% de la velocidad de la luz, para q sean un poco mas serios en este tipo de especulaciones...🧉🧐