"We will never travel among the stars based on current scientific understanding and technology" would be a more honest title.

@flybeep1661

Жыл бұрын

I don't think you fully understood the video. It's not about technology, it's about physics. Even IF you could travel 90% the speed of light, it still wouldn't be possible. Do you even understand physics well enough? The only thing that would make this possible is the be able to travel much faster than the speed of light and not even doing it by travelling through the medium of interstellar space. Technology? Basically what you want is faster than light travel and you'd have to be an idiot to say such a thing is possible. No "worm holes" are not a thing, they are purely theoretical.

@TLH442

Жыл бұрын

Not completely. We can do it with Newtonian physics. We need fusion power though but we can see that's happening in the sun so that isn't a theoretical possibility it's real.

@kammy6340

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Title is just click bait.

@ChairmanMeow1

Жыл бұрын

Physics dont change. Rules of the universe don't change.

@jimbyrdiii1503

Жыл бұрын

That's a lot more optimistic! 👍

I have a feeling there’s physics in the universe that humans haven’t even began to discover.

@gavincurtis

2 жыл бұрын

Some may have and keeping it secret from the rest.

@alantorres2256

2 жыл бұрын

This is true the govt know about zero point energy but it’s not in the media because it breaks our current understanding of physics

@arnolddooley5919

2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@arnolddooley5919

2 жыл бұрын

Just think about how much the government isn't telling us

@fluentpiffle

2 жыл бұрын

@@arnolddooley5919 No one will ever be able to tell you what they themselves fail to understand.. If they operated from a position of truth, you would know about it..

We need to harness the power of friendship before playing with light speed

"There will be no more than 1 Million Computers in private hands" Someone in the 70s.

@arthurballs9632

25 күн бұрын

"Trump is not going to be president" - President Obama

@MrGottaQuestion

18 күн бұрын

physics didn't provide fundamental barriers to this.

@joedollarbiden9823

11 күн бұрын

Too much of you can do whatever you want

@simonfarre4907

7 күн бұрын

​​@@MrGottaQuestion what physics are you referring to? With computer technology and hibernation, we could travel to the nearest stars. The question is how safe we need it to be. Physics absolutely doesn't hinder us here. It just takes time. Building large enough ships we could slowly accelerate a ship to a fraction of light speed and then start deceleration half way there. Getting to the nearest star could probably be done in a century or so. There is no fundamental physics barrier about space travel, what so ever. If there were, the universe wouldn't be teeming with solar systems and galaxies like it is. The video straight up conflates "interstellar travel" with "I took a trip to Proxima Centauri last spring". That is not what anyone mean by interstellar travel.

FINALLY , someone had the balls to say it and back it up with science !!!!! If we as humans continue to in fight over ideologies and political leanings. we sure as hell aren't exploring space anytime soon.

@womble321

2 ай бұрын

It's not about people our children AI computers will.

@gmg1985

Ай бұрын

The financial and scientific efforts needed to travel to other solar systems is better spent on saving Earth from the human effects on climate, pollution, over-population and social conflicts.

@asanti3748

Ай бұрын

@@gmg1985 that’s why humans multi task.

@mhughes1160

Ай бұрын

266 million years trip with the kids in the back seat Saying. “ are we there yet “. LoL 😂 Sounds like a fun trip

@GolDFish-if1ov

Ай бұрын

​@@womble321nope

A 10% C speed would allow a trip to Alpha Centauri in just 43 years. Question is, how well do we understand the density of interstellar debris?

@TelpPov

Жыл бұрын

that's right it's not just about speed, everything human build that we use in all aspect of our daily lives are not designed to last more than few years. This is what those scienfiction films always fail to address. You can invent some kind of hibernation for 200 years to get to the next habitable planet on a spaceship. But that spaceship cannot take a break, it is working hard everyday to stay functional. So far no human technology can make simple computer, power supply, circuitry that can last even decades without total replacement. Just look at the ISS, or any any human made space object now, without constant maintenance they all break down completely in just few years or months even.

@kamikazekrush3758

Жыл бұрын

I never say never, but right now its impossible to travel to another star, imagine hitting a small rock at the speed of light

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

That would be 10% average. To get the average, you need to accelerate well past the average, then decelerate at the other end (assuming you want to stop to have a look around). Accelerating a mass requires energy, and the mass increases with velocity. An enormous amount of energy is required to get there in a hurry.

@fidjdbdjficbfk7944

Жыл бұрын

Remember that time goes slower the faster you move, according to Einstein. So it may be possible that it is 43 years, for the dude in the shuttle it isnt.

@Kraken9911

Жыл бұрын

@@kamikazekrush3758 A grain of sand at the speed of light would wreck a spacecraft. At that speed even individual hydrogen atoms in interstellar space becomes an issue.

Yes we will never colonize stars just some of the planets around them.

@elessartelcontar9415

23 күн бұрын

Mike, aren't you guy who, when he was a kid, wanted to be the first man on the sun?

@MichaelGeoghegan

23 күн бұрын

@@elessartelcontar9415 lol

@adrianfox7972

22 күн бұрын

😂

@alanburgess2203

20 күн бұрын

Fantastic answer 😉

When first we crossed the ocean we did it in small wooden boats, then we learned to make bigger strong boats that were powered by wind and carried more people and we found steam power and then even bigger ships of iron and steal and now we dont even need ship as we can fly accross the oceans in a few hours anytime we choose in planes... Nothing is impossible for ever... thats what makes humans great!

@J67ss

Ай бұрын

However, we do have our limits

@mindfornication4funn

Ай бұрын

Humans do noting. Humans had to wait for Prometheus to discover FIRE. Humans have to wait for a god to bring us to the speed of light.

@davidglemboski258

Ай бұрын

You are failing to take into account the distances involved here........believe it or not, no matter how great you think humans are,........the universe is REALLY BIG........and human beings are REALLY SMALL.........twenty thousand years from now, someone or something will examine our historical record and say.........can you believe that once upon a time, a large number of seemingly intelligent beings, actually elected DONALD TRUMP to be their leader.....?????????????

@user-hg2ow2em6n

Ай бұрын

@@davidglemboski258 I cant deny humans of our time are small minded and limited.... yet compared to those who lived 15,000 years ago we are clise to gods... maybe it will take another 15,000 years before we have grown enough to take that next big step but we will take it, if we don't wipe ourselves out first!

@gabrielserrano5054

27 күн бұрын

I mean I get it to have low expectations especially with current technology and political issues. I mean survival’s sake the planet will face resource limits then we might explore space or other solutions to accommodate those resources. After that then new tools and technology will be made or discovered to be faster like cpu chips to reach the stars or whatever.

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost always right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arrthur C. Clarke

@medexamtoolsdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, that's why all our electric power and our cars and airplanes are fueled by perpetual motion machines instead of those old fashioned methods that require fuel.

@VisiblyPinkUnicorn

Жыл бұрын

@@medexamtoolsdotcom Ok, but you didn't discredit his point thought: two days ago it was impossible to travel faster than on horseback, yesterday it was impossible to travel faster than on a train, today is impossible to travel faster than on an airplane... Tomorrow? Maybe tomorrow will be impossible to travel faster than 1% the speed of light.

@shaneseglin2985

Жыл бұрын

A young man asks an elder on the other side of the river: “How do I get to the other side of the river?” The elder looks up and down the river and responds: “You are on the other side of the river” Snare drum. We all laugh

@icadoriogorgeousiano9454

Жыл бұрын

einstein was only in his mid 20s when he stated that it is impossible to exceed light speed

@icadoriogorgeousiano9454

Жыл бұрын

@@VisiblyPinkUnicorn The obvious difference that for some weird unimaginable reason you are ignoring is that there never was a law of physics that said you cannot go faster than horseback.

the frustrating thing about lightning speed is that it is still frustratingly slow compared to the size of our galaxy or others, if we attained the possibility to travel at lightning speed we would still be like a snail trying to travel around the earth's circumference

@tracedog27

5 ай бұрын

lol. I’m afraid it would be a lot worse than that. The snail would slither a thousand circles around the world before we made even one light speed trip around the Milky Way.

@darkglobe406

5 ай бұрын

for starters we could very well settle for something like 0,3 of the speed of light . more than 10 stars are within 10,5 ly away from us . which means it would be possible to make a trip to them . trip to alpha centauri would only take circa 14 years at 0,3 speed of light . and engines 0,1-0,3 of the speed of light are already debatable (or at least possible in theory) . we don´t need to colonize the entire galaxy any time soon , we just need to build good enough engine to get us out of this rock and to colonize at least closest star system , that way we don´t end up being wiped out by a single catastrophic event . from there we can further develop our technology , we will have literally hundreds of thousands of years to improve once we are no longer just a one planet species .

@volpeverde6441

5 ай бұрын

you have to temporarily change dimensions....the 'material' world does not behave like the higher dimensions....

@sisko212

5 ай бұрын

@@tracedog27 Yes, you are right, but you have to consider time dilation. When you travel at the speed of light, time seems to stop from your perspective. So, if you want to go to Alpha Centauri, which is around 4.3 light-years away, the trip would only take a few days from your point of view as a traveler

@Teutoburg09

5 ай бұрын

Lightning speed is actually slower than the speed of light. But it is true, the Milky Way is about 180,000 light years across.

There‘s a small mistake when the number for the speed of light is mentioned the first time. It is not 299 million km per second but 299 thousand km per second (or 299 million meters!) Very good video!

@pan3x

Ай бұрын

found it too and its not small its 1k fold mistake as the number is in m not km

We never thought we could fly, we never thought we'd break the sound barrier, but we did, I'm sure, if it's at all possible we will find out 😊

@LordPrometheous

14 күн бұрын

Flying, just as flying really fast don't violate the laws of physics. We are never going interstellar, not as organic beings. Unless our consciousness can be transferred to synthetic bodies, we as a species are doomed to stay right where we are.

My grandma just passed at 95. She told me jets used to be in books and people would scoff at the absurdity of travelling at the speed of sound. It we make it, say 1,000 more years who knows.

@Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387

Жыл бұрын

Way less than that I’d say. By 2100 we will be in S

@alen380

Жыл бұрын

we cannot travel at the speed of light because we are made out of mass

@praxis6172

Жыл бұрын

@@alen380 what if you were able to harness enough energy to create some type of magnetic field, creating a pocket inside an anomaly that is used for travel?.

@praxis6172

Жыл бұрын

You know how a dolphin rides the wake of ships. Right in the pocket, an eddy if you will. Can we generate something that folds space like the bow of a ship and ride the pocket as well?

@alen380

Жыл бұрын

@@praxis6172 I guess that what you are saying is related to a future IV or V type civilisation and it is probable in a distant future, we humans have made a huge step forward in technology in the past 100 years so I could agree with your argument, but still by the time humans do that both you and me will be long gone hehe

Doesn't this also make it unlikely that any aliens will ever visit us?

@neutrino78x

2 жыл бұрын

according to guy who made the video yes. But I would say, probably everybody is expanding their reach, at 99.999999% the speed of light, but they're taking it slow. A combination of that and SETI is simply not sensitive enough to draw any conclusions yet. They would have to be able to pick up accidental signals such as weather radar on another planet.

@Censeo

Жыл бұрын

The most probable aliens would be some kind of quantum robots, not any naturally evolved being. And both unlikely

@thomasmaughan4798

6 ай бұрын

"Doesn't this also make it unlikely that any aliens will ever visit us?" About 11 million aliens have visited the United States and most of them are still here.

@marcelorangel7024

26 күн бұрын

Not Aliens, but Alien AI or hybrid Aliens. It's a question of time until we become hybrid beings with a bunch of artificial organs in our bodies that will expand our life expectancy and intelligence.

aim for 1 to 10% speed of light combined with posthuman cyborg bodies that don't age. it would take 40+ years to reach nearest star, but if you're immortal, this time is a blip. this seems like the most viable option for interstellar travel imo.

@eternalvigilance5697

22 күн бұрын

In order for you to retain self, your brain would have to be included in that cyborg, and it still ages. Transferring information from your brain does not transfer you, just a copy of you.

Amen brother, we’re stuck on this miracle planet so let take care of it❤

@gmg1985

Ай бұрын

The financial and scientific efforts needed to travel to other solar systems is better spent on saving Earth from the human effects on climate, pollution, over-population and social conflicts.

@AerospaceEngineering

Ай бұрын

@@gmg1985 The good news is that said scientific efforts are going to happen whether people like you like it or not.

@arlequin241

Ай бұрын

No, we're not stuck. We will one day travel the stars and different galaxies.

@CC3GROUNDZERO

Ай бұрын

@@arlequin241 No, we will not. The speed limit precludes that. We won't even travel to any nearby stars. Chances are, we won't even get our act together and rid ourselves of capitalism, and therefore we'll suffocate on this once-beautiful planet that we've managed to ruin.

@daquan7868

Ай бұрын

The religious state of mind would have had us stuck on discovering fire to this day. 300,000 years ago a religious mind would have said God did it that's all we need to know

The technology required for interstellar travel is probably metaphysical.

@johnhitz1185

4 ай бұрын

That's a contradiction in terms.

@BruceCarbonLakeriver

Ай бұрын

True :)

@BruceCarbonLakeriver

Ай бұрын

@@johnhitz1185 No, there is Physics and there is Metaphysics and no, Metaphysics is not about "feelings" XD

@celestial-on-high251

21 күн бұрын

UFO literature seem to point to use of magnetic fields for propulsion and an ability to manipulate space and time to travel at high speeds. Maybe this is something worth exploring.

It was impossible to fly through the air until 119 years ago. It was as dreamy as engines that warp space are today.

@adeelliaqat5899

Жыл бұрын

so you are saying that after 119 years we will discover warp???

@happy_thinking

Жыл бұрын

@@adeelliaqat5899 No he is saying we might sometimes in the future. Also it doesn't have to be warp it can be another technology. I forgot the name of the show, but basically sometime in the future people can transfer their mind to a chip and a different body so we don't need faster travel if we can send our consciousness to a remote location.

@allensmith342

Жыл бұрын

@@happy_thinking Time to give the bong a rest... may want to lay off the Star Trek reruns also.

@allensmith342

Жыл бұрын

It's always been possible to fly through the air. Physical reality doesn't change just because men don't understand it. That said, the laws of physics clearly prohibit interstellar travel.

@SkullTraill

Жыл бұрын

I have respect for you, chocolate rain man. But we know enough about physics to be certain that nothing with mass will ever travel faster than the speed of light, and so while we may eventually get to other stars, we will never have real time communication and thus never have a cohesive nation/empire. The more realistic possibility is that we extend our lifespan (trans-humanism/singularity) to the point that waiting a few million years to receive a reply to a message wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But warp drives/FTL? Nah. Never gonna happen.

Can you imagine this guy if he lived about 200 years ago? "There's no possible way to sustain perpetual flight with any mass...."

@andrewwilliams9419

26 күн бұрын

comment proves you dont understand E=MC2

@Mothball_man

25 күн бұрын

No offense but you simply don’t understand. Humans mastered the manipulation of basic physical materials and chemical reactions many thousands of years ago. Today’s tech is no more than minutia of the same physical contortions. For us to master near light speed travel is the equivalent of a fetus learning Mandarin while still in the womb.

@Mircea076

24 күн бұрын

@@andrewwilliams9419 And you try to look smarter than you are, we know shit of how the universe really works and what is possible or not.

@alexxxXXXrus

23 күн бұрын

​@@Mircea076 we know it clearly. Absolutely. Comletely. Forever.

@andrewwilliams9419

21 күн бұрын

@@Mircea076 That comment makes zero sense. The equation means to accelerate any amount of mass to the speed of light would = ∞

We've got millions of years to find out if there might be feasible ways of colonizing other star systems. Maybe by harbessing fusion reactors?

I am aware of how often in history someone has said that a given event, situation, etc. was impossible. Further, I will admit that it appears, by what you have said, that interstellar travel at a reasonable rate is impossible. That being said I firmly believe that time will prove you wrong and that we or someone else will indeed travel between the stars.

@dalethelander3781

2 жыл бұрын

Resach NASA's Alcubierre Warp Drive.

@SJR_Media_Group

2 жыл бұрын

See my post above. We will never do that, there is no reason to in first place.

@dalethelander3781

2 жыл бұрын

@@SJR_Media_Group Research NASA's goddamn warp drive I mentioned.

@DotNET83

2 жыл бұрын

You are wrong Steven.

@SJR_Media_Group

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalethelander3781 Thank you. Link to NASA's 'warp drive' please. I want to read about it.

Depending on what you define as traveling among the stars; we are traveling among them right now.

@hitmanhatton

Жыл бұрын

The definitely didn't mean that

@qweqqweq2090

Жыл бұрын

I think you've won the argument and also sided with my theory. if we ever do reach another star system my guess is that it'll be on an at least moon sized, if not planet sized sphere that we somehow stear like a boat.

@Nuthing

Жыл бұрын

@@qweqqweq2090 It’s one way to do it, but not necessary.

@nunya_bizniz

Жыл бұрын

Earth is a spaceship

@medexamtoolsdotcom

Жыл бұрын

I suppose that's true..... BUT.... you'd better hope the solar system doesn't ARRIVE at another star in this journey, because that would be rather bad news for any life in the solar system.

Ok hear me out. Let's say 1000 years ago someone says, "Hey you know what? Traveling at the speed of sound it's impossible, even if you find enough horses to do so, you will end up that traveling that fast can make you crash with only one little stone on the ground", while some guys 1000 years later be like, dude you are thinking horse is the only way of travel.

@MrShenanigans28

3 ай бұрын

It's literally never going to happen brother. It's time to give up hope

@John_O_Connor

3 ай бұрын

No one said "traveling at the speed of sound is impossible" 1000 years ago 😂

@thezone5840

2 ай бұрын

@@MrShenanigans28 It will happen my friend. Try explaining FinFet/GinFet processor technology to a Hunter Gatherer or a Roman. That same discrepancy might be greater, the same or a portion of: "The Subspace Field"/"Hyperspace". Eric Lenz and the people at NASA's Eagleworks themselves might be the cavemen of a future society in terms of propelling hundreds of years from now. "Anything sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic". ---Arthur C. Clarke 1962 "Everything is impossible until it's not" ----Jean Luc Picard 2337

People hating on the title just have seen too many sci-fi movies. Interstellar travel involves navigating through absurdly long distances in the most hostile environment possible for longer than modern human societies have existed. Human lifespans are just not designed for space travel, maybe if we merged with machines and became androids we would have better chances, but that still does not solves the feasibility problem. Terraforming a planet is not a walk in the park, and everyone here just mentions it as if it was an easy task with 100% success rate that could be done in an afternoon and not in 100k years.

Its not just about getting up to speed and the risk of possibly hitting something its also about trying to stop once you get there. You cant just stop in space going that fast.

@marajevomanash

Жыл бұрын

Just build the spacecraft like a rocket with several rotating deflectors and pulverizers at the front. The diameter of the cylindrical spacecraft should be as small as possible. The spacecraft can be made longer. Build them like a pencil. If one tip breaks, sharpen it again. The payload should be near the end of the pencil.

@accelerationquanta5816

11 ай бұрын

Stop the same way you accelerated, numbskull.

@King-vs8ly

9 ай бұрын

@@marajevomanash a space ship traveling half the speed of light that hit a 1 gram rock would create an explosion bigger than any nuclear bomb, there would be no pencil to sharpen

@skaterkraines2691

9 ай бұрын

And what will you do when you get there 😮

@larky368

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, "just."@@marajevomanash

There was a lot of people who said we'd never be able to fly either, we've made it so far in the last 120 years, it's insane to think we'll never leave our rock lol

@jamessullivan4391

Жыл бұрын

Actually, no one ever said that. From day one, man has watched birds fly.

@wiseomg

Жыл бұрын

@@jamessullivan4391 People, not birds, learn to read, and yes plenty of people said that, infact a journalist in new York times wrote just weeks before the Wrightbrothers actually managed to fly that man would never fly, atleast not for between 1 to 10 million years.

@jamessullivan4391

Жыл бұрын

@@wiseomg Did you ever see Planet of the Apes? Charlton Heston proved flight to the apes by making a paper airplane and throwing it. Do you honestly think people of a thousand years ago and even 10,000 years ago didn’t simply understand the intuitive physics of watching insects a birds and realized that your lift potential from wings, let’s say, plus speed must compete against your weight or gravity? Shit, I was five years old and tried it with “home made” wings and realized I was just too damn heavy. But I understood at that tender age that there was no barrier or law of physics preventing me or animals around me were doing it. It was just a flaw in my design. I needed counteracting energy to the force of gravity. You cannot honestly believe a journalist who wrote an article once and assume the great thinkers of Ancient Rome, China, India, Egypt or Greece didn’t contemplate how to overcome the struggles while arrows and rocks were slinging everywhere in warfare and motherfucking birds were doing it too. It was only a question of engineering. So the ancients figured out Pyramids, aqueducts, gunpowder, geometry and that the earth is not flat but no, no flight is obviously not possible. Pythagorus and Euclid could not conceive of such a thing.Hot air put into a confined space, like a ballon delivers lift and sufficient force to counteract gravity. I once heard from a journalist that I need to wear two masks while driving in my car alone to protect me from CoVid. Uh… okay. I would go with science and simply say that flight was never defying the laws of physics, like saying going beyond the speed of light/causality, and was a simple matter of achieving the engineering skills to produce it. Read “the Flight of Icarus” in Ancient Greek mythology and see that a boy with feathers held together by wax, but he flew to close to the Sun and they melted, is an achievement of understanding that “we simply cannot do it yet,” not that it is impossible unless you hold religious views that somehow banned it. My own faith never “banned” it. So to close, just use a little common sense here.

@wiseomg

Жыл бұрын

@@jamessullivan4391 You said "Actually, no one ever said that. From day one, man has watched birds fly." That mankind trough the ages watched birds fly have nothing to do with the comment you were first answering, wich was There was a lot of people who said we (mankind) would never be able to fly and they ofc were wrong, i even pointed out a spesific "brainiac from the new york times saying this in 1903 only a few weeks before the Wright brothers made the first flight, look it up.

@jamessullivan4391

Жыл бұрын

Ahh, okay. Got it now. Mispellings and wrong prognostications have lead me to believe that you don't know shit. No offense, I have to leave this thread to argue with smarter people. Take care.

I found it helpful to actually do the calculations myself. Consider a light year to be 5.88 trillion miles away, (Alpha Centauri is 4.27 light years away), divide by the speed you’ll be traveling at, in this case 38,000 mph, divide by 24, then divide by 365.25 and you’ll get 75.37 thousand years. The calculations approaching light speed is beyond my grasp, so I’ll take your word for it. Still, I’m quite amazed at the number of people who want to affirm the possibility of traveling to Alpha Centauri. I think this is quite common, though it flys in the face of math and science. Of course we the living will never know for certain if this is actually a possibility, but I find it strange that there is no sense of human limitations here. And then I strongly question why we would even want to venture this far when our real concerns should be here on earth. I’m wondering if there is an inverse relationship between faith in technology vs faith in our humanity to address the problems we have here. In other words, are we inordinately caught up in the possibility of space travel that we would choose to abandon our responsibilities here on earth?

@apolloskyfacer5842

2 ай бұрын

✔

movies have made common people believe that one day humanity will travel the stars. I think humanity will destroy itself before it gets the knowledge

@andrewhillis9544

10 ай бұрын

WELL Then WE Will JUST Have To WATCH This SPACE (Pun MOST DEFINITELY Intended!!!) To See IF That HAPPENS ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@floridaman318

9 ай бұрын

I don't even think humanity has the ability to "destroy" itself either. I think we overestimate how powerful we are collectively.

The dilemma that has always confounded me when I think about space travel is one of simple Geography. The information we have (ie, what we see) is old information. The light from astronomical sources we see is old (as much as thousands or millions of years in some instances). Those objects have moved in that time (the galaxy is rotating and space itself is expanding). Flying to Vega, for example, is not like flying to Vegas. Because Vegas is always in the same location. The best we know about Vega is where it was located 25 years ago. Although Vega is “close” and unlikely to have moved much “galactally” in 25 years, the problem is much worse for more distant stars, let alone locations outside our own galaxy. Also, we all know stars go through phases, one of which includes a supernova. Given we are always acting on old info, it is entirely possible we could chart a course to “Star Z” only to find Star Z has exploded in the hundred or thousands of years it took its light to reach us when we charted the voyage. Creating reliable and “dynamic” maps that adjust for historical movement of objects and future movement (during the time it takes to make the journey) strikes me as a daunting proposition in and of itself.

@johndiss

5 ай бұрын

Vegas has moved just as much as Vega. The bigger problem is knowing where you will be.

@ilmarssalna8900

5 ай бұрын

Trajectory to Mars and other astronomical objects is planned based on its location in its orbit around the Sun by the time we get to the destination. It is possible to predict the movement of nearest stars in respect to our own or in respect to the centre of the galaxy, so it should be possible to chart a course, accurately predicting its location by the time we arrive. Even working with old info, we should be able to predict the current state of the star in the present VS. the apparent (X ly in past). Unless there are clear signs of a star going supernova or it being on the other side of the galaxy, 1000 or even 10 000 years is just a blip on astronomical scales so it is unlikely for a star to disappear in that time.

@brianross9926

4 ай бұрын

@@ilmarssalna8900 Uh, the light from Mars reaches us in 2 MINUTES.....Yes, we can account for that and predict where it is going to be. You could probably even make assumptions about things with 100s or 1000s of light years away. But You cannot know with any reliability where something is going to be or even if it exists if that light is BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD...

@Carsey-777

4 ай бұрын

Motions of stars can be predicted just as the motions of the objects in our solar system, assuming you're trying to reach a reasonably close star. If your destination is so far that you're worried your target star having gone supernova by the time you arrive I'd say you've got other problems. :') Conveniently the same laws of physics preventing you from observing the "present" state of a distant object will prevent you from reaching it...

@rxonmymind8362

26 күн бұрын

Probes. We would send probes to cut that useless flight out of the equation if traveling faster than light were possible.

My grandfather was born in 1900. He went from an era with the horse and buggy to us landing on the moon within his lifetime. To say we will never achieve the things that are impossible today is assuming we have attained all of the knowledge that is attainable already.

@joeiborowski9763

Жыл бұрын

The problem is with human evolutionary nature and mortality, we will kill ourselves before we will have the technology to travel interstellar. It's just all hypothesis and fantasies. That's why we have no solid proof of aliens visiting us from another star system. All species will kill themselves or exhaust all their resources before they can get advanced enough to defy their evolutionary biology that bounds them to their local system. The universe don't care about our dreams and fantasies. Millions of species has died out before us, we are not that special just because we evolved higher brain power. Comparing horse buggies to man on the moon is not in the same ball park. We can achieve that easily within the laws of physics. Interstellar space travel requires new knowledge and technology that that pushes the laws of physics to its limit and the most important thing, our biology to survive such travel. If I'm a betting man, I would wager that mankind will extinct ourselves waaaay before we can survive interstellar travel.

@andrese.castillo8869

Жыл бұрын

Your grandfather could just wait for new technology, as you see today. But time travel or travel beyond the galaxies is another matter of fact. There are physics laws you are no able to break. This video is talking about that. Not just technology as you mention.

@gstcomputing65

Жыл бұрын

I won't refute you, but I'll respond with a quote from my physics professor back in college: A “law of physics” is merely our best guess so far of how things really work. They get broken all the time; that is, in fact, the only way physics progresses: by refutation of conjectures. Conjectures that survive lots of careful attempts at refutation achieve general acceptance and are often confused with “truth”, but they are always provisional, and we assume they will eventually fail in some context.

@andrese.castillo8869

Жыл бұрын

@@gstcomputing65 You're right but so many time people has trying to break Relativity and still we are under their rules.

@medexamtoolsdotcom

Жыл бұрын

I've got news for you, every single thing that was impossible in 1900 is still impossible, and everything that is impossible today will be impossible in another hundred years. There is a difference between IMPOSSIBLE today and INFEASIBLE today. But there really are things that are impossible. And those things will never be done.

More importantly, I think the mental, psychological & physiological effects of such longterm space travel required to goto those stars, are probably VASTLY underestimated. High risk of mental insanity.

Advancements in relationship to time have compounding effects. Meaning the time it takes us to make great discoveries not only shortens but as the frequency of discoveries increase so does how impactful the discoveries themselves are. What we make advancements on in 10 years will dwarf the previous 50. The next 50,000 years will make the previous 50,000 seem like nothing. Imagine bringing just a simple mirror back 50,000 years ago lol.

Just because we currently don't know how to visit other stars, doesn't mean there isn't a way to do it. It simply means that WE DON'T KNOW of a way to do it. Humans are constantly learning, and given a little time we will figure out a way.

@astrolibrarian

2 жыл бұрын

We know nothing. We only know about 5% of what there is to know. Dark Matter (22%) and Dark Energy (71.4%) surround us, yet we have no idea what they are. We SO don't know that we just call whatever it is, "dark." Maybe we just need some more time to learn as we're just infants yet...

@ConcreteLand

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Give us a problem to solve and we will. This entire video assumes that we will not advance any more than we have to date. That is wrong.

@cookintesticles8881

2 жыл бұрын

@@ConcreteLand how many years and billions been spent on a cure for cancer

@noujaadw

2 жыл бұрын

@@ConcreteLand in 50 years our natural resource oil will be depleted, do we have a solution to this?

@marksparks8852

2 жыл бұрын

@@noujaadw I heard that about 50 years ago.

We started on our belly, then we walked on 4, then we stood & walked on two, then we ran. The wheel, cart, wagon, train, car, then we flew, and flew faster and faster until we flew so fast that we made it to the moon & back. The time it took for humans to go from belly to moon is but a moment in time kept by our universal clock. Never?

@caseymoore4759

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah humans have practically made it a job proving the impossible possible. People have been doing the impossible for thousands of years lol just a matter of time

@aegisurjagas2298

2 жыл бұрын

But we cannot break law of physics, And even we travelled for thousands of years , we would evolve for space and not for terrain land with gravity

@nativesugarshack9328

2 жыл бұрын

@@aegisurjagas2298 Yet ... We can’t break the laws of physics, yet. We may find that we don’t have to break them, just bend them to suit our purpose.

@caseymoore4759

2 жыл бұрын

@@aegisurjagas2298 the laws of physics are like anything we’ve learned….. it easily changes with new knowledge. We literally see things behaving in ways we can’t explain. Look historically at how many times the mainstream consensus of what’s a fact gets completely turned on it’s head by a new discovery. So especially at a time when our actual government has confirmed recording uap objects breaking the laws of physics lol not saying they are aliens, just saying they are literally recording objects breaking the laws of physics as we know them in multiple independent systems at the same time. Even if it’s just a natural phenomenon…… it shows we have a lot to learn

@geemanbmw

2 жыл бұрын

I like what your saying and I agree. Right now these are barriers we cannot break and in time I'm almost certain we will. And when we do it will be a long time before we realize it worked meaning interstellar travel. We will naturally not start our anywhere near a tenth of speed of light and even at the speed of light from our prospective hear on earth well we'll not know if the trip worked until whatever agreed upon distance in the test. Either way for the folks back here on earth will need patience

We could colonized other star system if NASA had the budget of U.S Military.

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." Robet A. Heinlein I trust you are not elderly.

This just means you can't make the well connected galactic empires you see in a lot of sci fi. It doesn't mean groups of us can't just move through the universe slowly.

@KatelynCollins225

Жыл бұрын

rimworld

@kvarnerinfoTV

Жыл бұрын

Nah, it is possible to travel trough universe very fast says psyhics we know today....and what about physics of tommorow.

@JohnDoe-zl6qw

Жыл бұрын

@@kvarnerinfoTV Yes, Alcubierre demonstrated there's nothing preventing the warping of space to achieve faster-than-light travel. The problem is the energy required to do it would be something on the order of what you'd get from a black hole. So, until we're able to create artificial black holes, harness their energy, and use them to power an Alcubierre Drive, we're not going anywhere; or at least not going anywhere very quickly. If we're serious about colonizing distant worlds outside our solar system in the near-term, it's going to have to rely on generation ships or some form of cryosleep / hibernation / suspended animation.

@kvarnerinfoTV

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnDoe-zl6qw energy requirements for a alcubierre drive are being smallaer and snaller with every new paper. I am quite positive that in next few decades we will be able to lower it to acceptable levels. Also we will soon have tech to reach near light speeds so closest stars will be far closer...

@JohnDoe-zl6qw

Жыл бұрын

@@kvarnerinfoTV The power requirements may be decreasing, but reading deeper you come to realize the power requirements are still (A) astronomical relative to what we can produce today and (B) rely on something that is currently being called "negative energy". With regard to (A) the original calculations called for a ball of antimatter the size of Jupiter to power the Alcubierre Drive. That's since been revised down to one the size of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Sounds reasonable, right? Until you realize the only anti-matter we've been able to create has been in particle accelerators/colliders. In 2010 the Large Hadron Collider created a total of 38 anti-hydrogen atoms worth which lasted 0.166 seconds. More has been produced since, but still in equally infinitesimally tiny quantities. We're a long way off from producing tons of anti-matter that will remain stable, let alone that could be safely stored and transported to be used aboard a starship. Also, there's no such thing as a free lunch. It takes energy to power a particle accelerator/collider. You don't get to create energy out of nothing using such a device. The energy you wish to store in anti-matter has to be energy you put into the accelerator/collider. The amount of energy stored in a Voyager 1-sized ball of anti-matter exceeds the total energy output of the entire human race the world over at current production levels. So what do you propose? We all stop using electricity and burning coal, natural gas, and oil for a year so a theoretical warp drive can have enough fuel for a test flight? Then there's the economic burden. It's estimated 1 gram of anti-matter has been produced in total by all experiments to date that have attempted to do so...at a cost of one trillion dollars. At a launch weight of 1,797 lbs, a Voyager 1-sized ball of anti-matter would cost $815,105,542,800,000,000 (that's 815 _quadrillion_ dollars). Where's that money coming from? With regard to (B), we have no direct evidence for "negative energy" yet. It may not even exist. Alternately, it may turn out to have ties to Dark Energy or Zero-Point Energy. Regardless, we're still a long way off from even being to able to construct an experiment to witness it let alone harness it (if it even exists). I'm not against the advancement of scientific knowledge and technology and would very much like to see us achieve some form of propulsion to take us to the stars. However, dreams must be grounded in reality if you ever want to achieve them. There's far too much dreaming and not enough grounding when it comes to these discussions, with a flippant disregard for the overwhelming technical, engineering, social, and political challenges it presents. We are not even remotely close to being able to build a working Alcubierre Drive in our lifetimes. I'm not saying don't pursue it; I'm simply cautioning one needs temper their expectations and to be more realistic with regard to the timelines involved.

...without artificial gravitation and various shielding against cosmic rays and other particles, interstellar travel is impossible...

@Heart2HeartBooks

Жыл бұрын

And what about Astral Projection?

@wayneking9997

Жыл бұрын

Who cares

@zacharyhonachi2166

Жыл бұрын

@@Heart2HeartBooks Sounds like "whataboutism", so who cares?

@jackwalters5506

Жыл бұрын

Artificial gravity is easy, you just get a large cylinder and spin it, and shielding is pretty easy too, we can already shield against everything that we need to, it's just expensive in mass to get all that shielding on things that need to be launched off earth

We won't, future descendants will.

As a kid i always imagined space empires and other crazy stuff. As i grew up i realized that it is a waste of energy to try it. So much time to get to one place, communication would be a nightmare. All the alien invadong Earth movies look now ridiculous to me. Why waste so many resources for a war? By the time your planet knows the result of the invasion, your leaders may be dead and theres probably a new party in power or there was a war and people no longer care about you. It is easier to fix all the problems in your planet than to try and invade others, at most i believe we could land of asterpirds or meteors and extract materials from there.

As they say, “never say never” because you never know! Given what we’ve learned in the last hundred years or two, and that things are accelerating, imagine (if we manage not to blow up the planet to oblivion) what currently unimaginable things we might have discovered in the next hundred years or two. This video is perfectly sensible, but it should add “in the current state of our knowledge”. Who, in 1850, could have imagined the Internet or the GPS? Not even Jules Verne did. Also, who says we need to explore the galaxies with our very inadequte biological bodies? Maybe that will happen only once we’ve transformed ourselves into some kind of electromagnetic entity or uploaded ourselves into one? There are probably more surprises lying in wait for us than we have ever experienced in our past history. Hopefully not total self-obliteration though…

@zacharyhonachi2166

Жыл бұрын

Never say you never know because you never know never.

@icadoriogorgeousiano9454

Жыл бұрын

Tell me something: If we do an experiment today to measure the weight of a cubic meter of iron and the experiment tells us that a cubic meter of iron weighs 7,873 kilograms, do you think that in the future a new theory of physis will be developed such that when we weigh a cubic meter of iron suddenly it weighs 20,000 kilograms instead of 7,873 kilograms?

@Aquascape_Dreaming

Жыл бұрын

There are many possibilities, of course. But the video is making a general statement based on the likelihood of those things happening before we are obliterated by either ourselves, a virus or local catastrophe, or some outside force like a meteor is quite low.

@nme2ne1

Жыл бұрын

@@icadoriogorgeousiano9454 The weight of objects change according to which planet they're on. Thats old news bro.

@Pandzikizlasu80

Жыл бұрын

I think, that the main problem is the definition of "we". If we widen it to our creations like robots and AI, maybe even our minds recreated as AI, then all those arguments are not applicable. 400 years at 0,1% c to Proxima? For an artificial intelligence it is absolutely no problem. For a digitalised human mind it could be Star-Trek or Star Wars or whatever experience it chooses. All you need to do is to change the time perception. With years passing like secunds, it would be just a five minute trip (I would rather choose an hour as a year to have a chance to read some book and explore my virtual Millenium Falcon at least ;)

That's a bold statement, but I have to agree it is a remote possibility. To date, moving any mass beyond the speed of light is impossible. Even accelerating to 1/2 the speed of light would kill everyone on board. Even at 0.1C it would take 40 years to get to the nearest star. The whole "folding space" thing is just hypothesis. Gravity can bend space but even if we could build some kind of gravity generator the power required would dwarf the current global output.

@adammclaughlin845

4 ай бұрын

If it took 40 years to reach the nearest star, and we sent colonists to the Proxima Centauri system in 2050, then we'd have humans living in another solar system by 2090. That's... not very long compared to the length of human history.

@Carsey-777

4 ай бұрын

@@adammclaughlin845 While there's without doubt a sheer infinite number of Earth-like planets or moons sprinkled allover the observable part of the universe, the chances that one of those happens to orbit around one of the closest 1000 stars is probably quite small.. and almost certainly there's none in the A Centauri system. So this would most likely be a very educational one-way trip much better done with unmanned robotic probes. (Not even talking about the energy/propellant problem, sufficient means of life support, high energetic cosmic radiation and collisions with cosmic molecules/dust/micrometeorites...)

@Carsey-777

4 ай бұрын

Not a remote possibility, but the most likely scenario (says someone who studied astrophysics). It's not just not possible to move any mass beyond the speed of light "to date", we have not observe this happening ever, even in the most energetic cosmic particle accelerators observed (active galactic nuclei, GRBs, supernovae), and if it were possible at all you'd think that those objects, which output energies a trillion times higher than the largest particle accelerators on Earth, would be able to do it. Even completely massless particles such as photons (eg. light) travel only with "c", not faster. So if it were possible to somehow exceed this fundamental speed limit, it's not something that could be achieved with the help of any of the known types of matter or force fields - and if there are particles that indeed do move faster than 'c', they have yet to be found, and guess what - your or my protons/neutrons/electrons etc forming carbon, oxygen, hydrogen etc. atoms of organic or inorganic matter as we know it are definitely not among them...

@richfrazier8756

4 ай бұрын

Physicist Miguel Alcubierre proved that mathematically, warp drive is possible.

@moreauclement9702

4 ай бұрын

@@richfrazier8756 Alright, it's mathematically possible. And how much energy do we need to do that ? Is it even a conceivable amount ?

This is like asking the Victorians what it will be like living in the year 2024. It is impossible to predict what might be possible in the next 100, 200, 500 yrs. With the advancement in A.I 'all' that would be needed is a small fleet of aircraft carrier sized spacecraft that can travel at 10% light speed. The spacecraft would be unmanned, controlled by the A.I but carrying thousands of embryos (possibly genetically engineered) of humans, animals, insects, etc. As well as the sum knowledge of humanity and all the tools to get things started. It then doesn't really matter how long it takes to get to a suitable solar system. On arrival, the craft then get on with the business of setting up a new colony, buildings, 3d printers, terraforming and then bringing the embryos to life, not necessarily all at once. Once a colony is established, another (even more advanced by then) fleet sets off to start another colony. Each world then becomes an evolutionary island. In 'just' a few million years we can populate the entire galaxy. We just won't have a Star Trek warp drive (or maybe we will?) All that's needed is patience. Never say never.

And this is why no aliens are or have ever visited Earth. Since there are no other planets in our solar system that have intelligent life capable of space flight, they'd have to come from distant stars, which is quite unlikely due to the vast distances and time required. Physics didn't prevent us from being able to fly in an airplane in 1900, technology did. There was no physical reason why we couldn't fly if we had the proper engine and construction technique. Physics, however, does prevent anyone from traveling anywhere near, and certainly not faster than, the speed of light. Doesn't matter what kind of technological advances are made in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, we still will be limited by the speed of light.

Fish will never populate our city streets, and just so we will never leave our system.

@antiseize11

Жыл бұрын

Perfect analogy!

In a way, it's comforting to know that we'll be safe from malicious aliens who might show up at our doorstep one day. On the other hand, knowing that there most certainly is other intelligent life out there but we'll never meet due to the vast distances involved, is quite sad.

@leecowell8165

Жыл бұрын

How do YOU know that? We could have aliens living amongst us right now. think about a civilization out there somewhere that has a BILLION years of evolution on us. Do you actually think they are as STUPID as we are? Yeah we really haven't been around for very long at all... not compared to cosmic time. Also think about the odds of us as a civilization living at the SAME TIME as another civilization located wherever. The odds of multiple civilizations LIVING AT THE SAME TIME is really tiny. Sure. think we'll be around in a million years? and remember a million years is but a drop in the bucket compared to cosmic time. yeah Earth has been here what, about 4.5B years.. well that's 4,500 M years!

@hpmc7426

Жыл бұрын

The ones that meet will be really lucky, maybe two habitable planets in one system.

@grumpyou1138

Жыл бұрын

Why do you think a race capable of interstellar travel would be "malicious"?

@ganymede3141

Жыл бұрын

@@grumpyou1138 I didn't assume that a race capable of interstellar travel is malicious. I assumed that some intelligent races are malicious, and of those, some are capable of interstellar travel.

@grumpyou1138

Жыл бұрын

@@ganymede3141 Only on this planet.

"Believe Me, We Will Never Travel Among The Stars!" wow. I'll bet you're a real hit at birthday parties & weddings

One ancient Roman to another: "We will never walk on the moon because it's impossible to build a tower that high. Go ahead, try it."

@elessartelcontar9415

23 күн бұрын

Exactly! Humans can be so thick!

@abloogywoogywoo

23 күн бұрын

Its impossible to build a tower that high. Your analogy falls apart, I'm afraid.

@Daniel-jm8we

22 күн бұрын

@@abloogywoogywoo The analogy is accurate. Your understanding of it is not.

@abloogywoogywoo

22 күн бұрын

@@Daniel-jm8we we haven’t built a tower that high. space elevators are impossible because of physics. space is full of radiation as well, so you can’t stay there for very long.

@abloogywoogywoo

22 күн бұрын

@@Daniel-jm8we A better analogy would be, the Chinese man who doesn’t believe we can built a rocket (fireworks) big enough to take us into orbit.

I believe you. Star travel is going to be very very remote in even attempting/doing such a venture. We will be lucky to visit our nearby planets and setup any kind of structures or space stations around them.

@rogermartinez78

2 жыл бұрын

So, what you are suggesting for example your cell phone will not change in the next century, I am sorry to break it to you but like cell phone our space ships will improve in the next century and beyond to settle distant areas in our solar system my friend. Another thing no one on our planet is traveling by sailing ships, that kind of travel is so 19th century!

@kateofone

2 жыл бұрын

Yep and plus the Size of Earth isn’t good.

@ronschlorff7089

2 жыл бұрын

those will be the first steps, followed by others, for hundreds and thousands of years, the key is to survive and "get some eggs out of this one basket".

@douche8980

2 жыл бұрын

Star travel is impossible for two main reasons. Majority of stats that has been viewed don't exist anymore and are merely illusions but also that even reveling at the speed of light you'd need millions of human generation to reach the closest star system.

@reconciliation86

2 жыл бұрын

@@douche8980 "even reveling at the speed of light you'd need millions of human generation to reach the closest star system." no. not at all. It is 4.2 ly away. You would need 4.2 years. If you could travel at 10% of light speed you would need 42 years, it's really rather simple.

I used to believe we could make it to the stars. I hope we can. I watched star trek and believed we could. I hope that we can. Love to all 👍

@badtrekee4348

Жыл бұрын

Live long and prosper my friend

@tirthachakrabarti5912

Жыл бұрын

Known Physics allows it. It's possible.

@jerrscott6373

Жыл бұрын

Well, even Star Trek never really fulfilled their 5-yr mission.

@thegeop5906

Жыл бұрын

ST is FICTION

@kirkhenry3867

Жыл бұрын

@@thegeop5906 I know. It just kind of captured my imagination as a kid and even as an adult.

We 'may' never travel among the stars 'in flesh and blood'.

The best thing to do is to invest in exploring this entire galaxy of ours! That much we should be able to do in the future, at least for now...

I came to the same conclusion years ago that its all a pipe dream and went to bed depressed realising I would never ever leave this world, never see anything of this universe and it seemed really unfair and wrong, then I had a dream, I 'woke up' and found myself floating in deep space watching the earth slowly recede in the distance, I was not alarmed or bothered as in a dream when an old raggedy clothed wild haired man appeared, looked like an Indian mystic or Tibetan type sitting cross legged and he had a black stone like obsidian on his forehead, he looked really annoyed and miffed and his very deeply wrinkled face looked like it was scowling and he grimaced and said " It takes 86 hours to travel the universe" nothing more and then he disappeared to a point of light and I woke up, hell of a dream but it got me thinking perhaps there is more to this game than meets the eye. wish he had of said how.. lol.

@rickcullarn1347

Жыл бұрын

Love this Dream.

@ebonaparte3853

8 ай бұрын

If we can’t travel the stars, which is unlikely, we can travel the Solar System.

@OfficialDenzy

8 ай бұрын

​@@ebonaparte3853we can travel to other stars but it will take ALOT of human lifetimes. Like a 1000 years or more. Space colonization is less cool than movies made it out to be

@ebonaparte3853

7 ай бұрын

@@OfficialDenzy Fusion and antimatter rockets could allow us to reach our closer neighbors faster. And warp drives could open up the galaxy to us.

@OfficialDenzy

7 ай бұрын

@@ebonaparte3853 I already heard about Warp Drives but even if its possible, I think we would reach that technology when we already colonized so many stars. I heard Warp Drives take so much energy like the entire universe? I am not sure about that and its not even 100% that it will work. I have never heard of fusion and antimatter rockets. If you can explain or give a link that explains how those works, that would be nice

Never is a strong word,. We will never build a plane that can traverse the Atlantic Ocean said by Wilbur Wright 2 years before the first Atlantic crossing 🤞

@speedoflight3395

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re thinking like this then you’re really ignorant when it comes to astronomical topics

@madkillerz007

Жыл бұрын

@Uhavenoright toask such close minded thinking - you act as if we know everything there is to know about everything. Space travel is definitely more complex then atmospheric travel, sure, but thats not to say that its impossible. We barely even scratch the surface of what is known about our reality, space, time, mass etc - the universe is filled with alot of shit we barely even understand and i dare say things we don't even know exist. The answer is out there somewhere and we will find it, eventually

@CC3GROUNDZERO

Ай бұрын

"It is easier to imagine the end of the world that it is to imagine the end of capitalism." - Attributed to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Zizek

I'm glad to see you mentioned two problems with near light speed interstellar travel that are often ignored; the possibility of catastrophic damage to the spaceship due to collision with interstellar matter, and the large difference in the amount of time that passes between the space travellers and their home planet (and destination). And you also correctly noted the answer to the Fermi paradox; the fact that aliens haven't visited us doesn't mean they don't exist, but merely that they (like us) cannot travel the vast distance from their planet to Earth. I would add that even if someday we discover Einstein was wrong and there is a way to travel faster than light and aliens developed that technology, how would they know about us, and why would they decide to visit us even if they did? Our galaxy is a huge place and here are billions of planets in our galaxy alone. It is very unlikely aliens would know we exist and even if they did they probably have more interesting places to visit.

@geoffevans4908

4 ай бұрын

Yeah,even interstellar dust would destroy the ship completely in a few minutes at light speed.

@streamofconsciousness5826

4 ай бұрын

I think if we were to find the ability to travel the distances the first place we are heading is where there might be other life. It seems to be rare, certainly the search for Habitable planets alone would bring them to our solar system at some point, Earth is a jewel in a Galaxy or rocks. We can discover big planets around other Stars I bet people 1000 years ahead of us can do much more.

@geoffevans4908

4 ай бұрын

@@streamofconsciousness5826 there is life out there,it would be arrogant and narcissistic to think we are alone but please remember ,as on our own planet,life does not always have to breathe oxygen or be Carbon based. So it’s quite realistic to hypothesise,in fact it’s essential, that our planet would not be attractive to most of the other life forms out there.

Climate change and TikTok will finish us before we have any chance of finding out.

"Space is not empty. It contains the entire universe." Alan Watts

This vid is ill-named. It should be called "Why We Will Never Travel Faster Than Light." Traveling among the stars is no problem at all, as long as you don't mind the fact that it will take a very, very, LONG time. Many different methods - all perfectly acceptable to the laws of physics - have already been preposed. Suspended animation for the travelers. Generational ships where those that arrive are the descendants of the original crew. If ion drives work, it has been shown that with the constant acceleration you can get to Proxima Centauri in one human lifetime... a one way trip where you won't have much time to accomplish much when you arrive... but we CAN. Even trade is possible with decades long plans run automatically with no communication needed. So many shipments per year of X in exchange for so many shipments per year of Y for the next 100 years or so carried by automated unmanned craft. That works fine with planning and patience. Never travel amongst the stars? I scoff. Of course we will. The only question is how distant in the future this will be as we balance our desire to do it faced with restrictions of physics... which aren't restrictions at all if you think in terms of generations of humans and decades and centuries of implementation. And all this presumes that the average lifetime of humans shall remain as is. If you do some research on aging and proposed methods of its prevention, you will see that surprising progress has been made. In a couple of hundred years the human lifespan may have been greatly increased.

@yeshuasage3724

2 жыл бұрын

It is almost guaranteed that the life in board any space ship won’t last long as space itself is lethal to life Astronomers found out recently that there are many pockets of space which look empty but are made up of dark clouds with unbearable temperatures and radiation which no life can get thru, the list of dangers in space to any life is endless, there are literally 6 billion way space can and will kill you So yes the video title is right, humans will NEVER travel interstellar but the AI humans make in the future will since they are not vulnerable biological creatures like their creators

@jackwalters5506

Жыл бұрын

On the topic of trade, why would trade even be necessary? There is an unimaginable amount of resources out there, a small colony of 10,000 guys in Bumfuck nowhere system would possess 1000 times more wealth then then entire earth combined does now. Trade would be a novelty, the only meaningful trade would be that of ideas, and ideas can be transmitted at light speed via laser communications

YOUR ASSUMPTION (AND IT'S EXACTLY THAT!!!) THAT,"WE WILL NEVER TRAVEL AMONG THE STARS!" IS ACADEMIC SINCE NO-ONE ALIVE NOW WILL BE ALIVE CENTURIES OR MILLENIA FROM NOW WHEN OUR TECHNOLOGY COULD HAVE ADVANCED TO THE POINT WHERE INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL BECOMES POSSIBLE. YOU CANNOT PREDICT THE FUTURE ANYMORE THAN I CAN ! ! ! Q.E.D.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to get the environmental permit for terraforming?

Given the shortness of our lives, you are right that this will not happen in any MEANINGFUL WAYS TO US. That is why the answer to Fermi's wonderful question: "Where is everybody?": is that they all stayed home, since they had no choice.

This is what i have been saying for a long time, travel between other exoplanets in our galaxy will be impossible, let alone other galaxies, will never happen.

@jonathangleason72

2 жыл бұрын

You know what was impossible 2000 years ago? A rocket? So what’s to say what’s impossible in the next 2000 years

@Renegade040

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathangleason72 I agree, we will never know what may happen way in the future, but it's unlikely we will be around for a long time anyway. It's the law of physics that you can't travel as fast or faster than the speed of light. But lets say you can, even 100 times faster, it would still take to long to get to the average star in our galaxy. As they say, even hitting a speck of dust, would destroy your space craft and I'm telling there is a massive amount of dust out there.

@keithwickham8558

2 жыл бұрын

@@Renegade040 With no gravity to talk of in space you could build a deflector screen in front of the ship as big and thick as you like without having to worry about weight a pointed one even better

@Renegade040

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithwickham8558 well you could be right, but this concept just will not cut it. This solar deflector/sail idea is extremely slow, would take years to get to any where near the speed of light. It's the law of physics that nothing with mass can ever reach the speed of light. A lot people don't realize, in the terms of the size of the universe, the speed of light is very very slow. Just recently they took a photo of our black hole at the centre of our milky way galaxy which is 26,000 LY away. With our fastest space craft, it would take 450 million years to get there, better take a cut lunch with you.

@BruceCarbonLakeriver

Ай бұрын

@@jonathangleason72 I don't give a bean about the next 2000 years xD

After 5000 years we will be able to travel among stars when we will become type 2 civilization

Our destructive, violent species inheriting this world was actually a bad idea.

nothing like watching a video, and knowing less than before lol

@denissijecic5164

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

Honestly I would be perfectly content with visiting the Moon and colonizing Venus. I once did an original sci fi story about a man who worked with thousands of other people to terraform Venus. However instead of making Venus the same as Earth they instead created an entirely unique environment and biosphere that humans could adapt to over time. If I could be a part of something like that it would be a dream come true.

@phillipmel

Жыл бұрын

When the Russian space agency sent a probe to Venus, several decades ago, it took our only known surface pictures of Venus, for about a minute or two or three before the very hot surface of this planet melted this USSR probe. The average temperture of the COLD SIDE of Venus can melt lead.

@bear_soldier9277

Жыл бұрын

Well hopefully humanity can adapt to a Venuisian biology fast due to the climate crisis this little blue speck can become another Venus. I don't think that humanity will last another 150 years. No one is willing to give up their gas powered vehicle and the government is not doing enough to combat the environmental problems, we will not find any miracle that will take carbon out of the atmosphere or clean up the environment, sorry to say it but that is a sad fact.

@JohnDoe-zl6qw

Жыл бұрын

Venus is a poor candidate for colonization. The 90-atmospheres worth of crushing pressure at the surface, carbon dioxide atmosphere, sulfuric acid clouds, and 800-degree Fahrenheit surface temperature are just the tip of the iceberg. The real problem with Venus is the lack of plate tectonics. With no outlet for the planet's internally generated heat through volcanism and subduction fault lines - hallmarks of plate tectonics here on Earth - that heat builds and builds. Eventually the entire surface of Venus, no longer able to contain the heat, turns molten and is completely resurfaced every 500 million years. Over the course of 100 million years it cools enough to re-solidify. Then the cycle starts all over again. Mars is not without its challenges, too, but they are far more easily surmounted than Venus' will ever be.

@junrosamura645

Жыл бұрын

No point in messing with Venus, too close to the sun and it will die out thousands of years before the earth does.

@MyKharli

Жыл бұрын

Why would you be content with a climate destroying trip to the moon to fulfill your jollies ?

No one is getting through the Van Allen Radiation Belt alive. Humans will never even get to the moon.

@lorddaver5729

5 ай бұрын

We have already been to the moon. You clearly do not understand the Van Allen Belts,(there are two, not one) do you? So many people have the wrong idea about these radiation zones. The man who discovered the belts, physicist Dr Van Allen, was asked in an interview at the time of the first moon mission (Apollo 11 in 1969) whether the belts would pose a danger to the astronauts. He said that that would only be the case if the spacecraft was exposed the radiation for several days. Apollo 11, however, passed through the belts in a matter of a few hours. When the interviewer persisted, saying he heard that any exposure would be dangerous, Dr Van Allen replied that anyone who said that didn't know what they were talking about. Apparently, however, you know better than he did...

Seeing the advancements of humans in just the last 200 years. Has taught me to never say never when it comes to us as humans.

I think your title is mistaken. When nuclear fission was 1st discovered, one of the men present said that it would take at minimum a 100 years to be able to use it for energy. Literally 24 hours later, a dude on the other side of the country, filed patent for atomic energy and built a power plant shortly thereafter. Never say never my friend

@MrVenona

Жыл бұрын

No one built a fission power plant shortly after fission was discovered. Fission was confirmed in 1939. The first chain reaction, necessary for generating power didn't happen until 1942. Electricity from fission didn't happen until 1951.

@AlexBerezovskyJr

Жыл бұрын

@@MrVenona 9 years, as far as it relates to construction of a nuclear plant, is definitely less than 100 years.

@MrVenona

Жыл бұрын

@@AlexBerezovskyJr You stated "a dude on the other side of the country, filed patent for atomic energy and built a power plant shortly thereafter" Your claim has been demonstrated to be false, unless you consider 12 years to be "shortly thereafter" and "the dude" is the U.S. government.

@wickwickening3977

Жыл бұрын

The technology isnt even the biggest problem .its our own body .

@KateeAngel

Жыл бұрын

So "one of the men present" was wrong back then, that means everyone who says something isn't possible, is always wrong too? If I say perpetual motion machine isn't possible, am I wrong?

I'm an "older" guy (in years, not in life style). Ex-news-guy, and been putting serious study time into Astronomy, especially the long distances between space objects. For one, the alignment of the orbits of earth and Mars get close enough for inter-planet, only every 26 months. This means that the suicide "voyage" to Mars would be just that, a way to become a gamma-ray bombarded "crispy critter". So this voyage, with any humans, would take a minimum of 2-and-a-half to three YEARS. The "space ship" would have to be half the size of big Star Wars flagship/cruiser. It would have to be assembled IN ORBIT of the Earth, a task that would make the Interna'l Space Station seem like a tinker toy in comparrison. And going to any other planet (mainly Jupiter) would be way too far, a round trip of 5 to 6 years minimum. No human will ever go any further away from our Earth's moon, EVER. The cost would be enormous, and we would not learn all that much more than our various space probes have already done. We know what is there, and practically speaking/witting, sending any humans there is a waste of time, effort and money. { : - } ~~

@phillipmel

Жыл бұрын

I forgot to include this: A transit through space will not include any fast-travel portal or wormwhole. These are speculative notions, and a part of what is known as "Science Fiction", and not even remotely available. Wishful thinking, that's why Science Fiction is, and just this: A story not able to be regarded as "true" and/or possible.

@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the thing everyone forgets because they're so focused on theoretical propulsion systems is the fact that even if we managed to go fast enough that long-distance space travel was on the table, the REAL problem is radiation shielding. Until we solve the very, very, very real problem of figuring out a practical way to keep our astronauts from getting lethal doses of radiation on their trips, we're not going anywhere. Our ISS orbits well within the Earth's magnetic field. But radiation was an extremely serious concern on the trip to the moon, even though it wasn't publicised. An inopportune solar flare or other gamma ray event would have had catastrophic consequences for the Apollo astronauts. We just chose to roll the dice and hope for the best, and it worked out. But longer-distance travel will absolutely not have that luxury. And lightweight, durable, and effective radiation shielding is every bit as difficult a problem as high-speed theoretical propulsion.

@phillipmel

Жыл бұрын

@@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg Your explanation of these facts is better than mine, and I appreciate it. So now the challenge is to get people to stop believing in Elon Musk's "solutions" to our mutual problem. He and others are neither scientists, nor pay quality attention to scientists WHO ARE EXPERTS in the field of the risks of inter-planetary "travel".

@ZygonesBzygones

6 ай бұрын

you make excellent points

@ZygonesBzygones

6 ай бұрын

decelerating from near-c velocity is no picnic either @@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg

Albert Einstein came up with the theory of warping space. The ability to bend space to make 2 objects closer. No need to travel for light years when you can effectively join 2 points that are light years away.

“Heavier than air travel is impossible.” President of the Royal Society, 1895.

“Man will never circle the globe, they will fall off the edge of the world.” “Man will never fly.” “Man will never go to the moon.” “Man can not live in space.” “Man will never make it to Mars.” What we know now will beyond obsolete in 5,000 years.

@zwanzikahatzel9296

2 жыл бұрын

still haven't reached mars, and we've been to the moon ONCE 50 yrs ago... and we don't live in space at all, the international station is utterly dependent on earth, we don't have self-sustaining habitats in space. Humans will destroy themselves and the planet long before any interplanetary travel becomes a reality

@veteranfoodlover2515

2 жыл бұрын

@@100percentBroonese for now look at the short amount of time it took just to fly around the earth as a species. A thousand years is nothing to the universe. Just think about the advancements in the next hundred thousand years. Our understanding of physics will be beyond what we can even comprehend right now. Many of the things we know about the universe may even change with the James Webb telescope depending on what data it sends back to us within the next decade. A new era for men is approaching and it’s exciting. I’m just sad that we won’t see it. Being optimistic and finding ways to take on complex issues is always how man has advanced exploration and science.

@veteranfoodlover2515

2 жыл бұрын

@@zwanzikahatzel9296 it’s all in time. There is no way we know what the future holds. You got to realize that our understanding physics and the universe as we know now are nothing compared to what we’re gonna know 10,000 to 100,000 years from now. James Webb alone may change a lot of our understanding in the next decade. Let mankind find a efficient way to mine astroids and planets for raw materials. Speculating I think space exploration will no longer be motivated by government budgets but by private entities seeking trillions in profit that they will sell to governments. I think remote drones like the rovers we already have will be sent to work locations with returnable containers. Once enough raw materials are harvested they will wait for the proper planet alignment then take off to return to some sort of consolidation point in space say some private station similar in design to the ISS just material focused rather then science. This will be the first baby steps to colonizing the stars. Don’t forget depending on how the merger of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy goes we have no clue what new planets and stars are going to end up within our reach. I think without being optimistic we can’t advance the science to make humanity and interplanetary and inner galactic species. Just wish we could be around to see it.

@douche8980

2 жыл бұрын

The universe and multiverse is a totally different subject.

@keepgoing1973

2 жыл бұрын

It won't take 5000 years. Probably only 500 years

I think something that could be said about the Fermi paradox is that perhaps there has simply not been enough time in the universe yet for any civilizations to have developed Interstellar travel. Perhaps it has taken this long for the heaviest elements to have been created to allow for technological civilizations in the first place

@politicallycorrectredskin796

Жыл бұрын

Maybe. An even bigger problem to me, though, is the highly anthropocentric notion that technology is somehow inevitable. And it's not, as every other organism on earth except humans demonstrates. Orangs have been here as long as we have or longer, yet still no language and no tech. And now that we've spent the last 75 years making absolutely sure that the rest of our rather enormous solar system is utterly sterile the idea of ubiquitous life is starting to seem a bit absurd. It is so sterile in fact that we are now reduced to hallucinating about floating organisms in Venus' atmo, buried organisms on Mars and ones floating in the dark in subsurface oceans on a few icy moons. Not saying that's impossible or not worth examining, just that we were actually thinking a century ago that there were advanced aliens living on Mars. How far the fantasts have fallen! We could see their canals, I tells ya!

@Yora21

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Everyone who thinks there is a paradox because we don't see aliens doesn't understand how far apart everything in the universe is, and how slow the speed of light.

@ebukaobieri

Жыл бұрын

What’s even more scary is that it has taken us 4+ billion years to get to this level now, yet one meteor strike could wipe all that progress away. I think that’s part of why we may never develop anything capable because we would need a massive amount of time coupled with the hope that WE also wouldn’t have destroyed ourselves.

@politicallycorrectredskin796

Жыл бұрын

@@ebukaobieri Well, there's eugenics and elitists on earth too. All this doom&gloom stuff I tend to always assume is highly overhyped. Eugenics doesn't happen by itself you know.

@catalinmihai459

Жыл бұрын

They are here for a long time. The Pentagon admitted it in congress. Fermi is no longer a paradox

My son and I watched War of the Worlds, and he asked me if I am worried that aliens could attack us. I said no because the distances to the closest star is impossible to travel. We watched your video and he is now convinced that an alien invasion will never happen.

I don't think finding life on other planets is the the goal......having the ability to leave our solar system to find them is.

@ronschlorff7089

2 жыл бұрын

yes, it would be even better to find "good for us" uninhabited planets cuz it would be "rude" to move in on inhabited ones, even with lower life forms, but maybe microbes would be an exception, if we don't catch a "severe cold" there! ;D

@davidsheckler8417

2 жыл бұрын

There isn't any solar system pls open your eyes and look up

@equinox95

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidsheckler8417 The only thing I see when I look up is blue sky?. I'm talking about far beyond that. If they aren't routinely going to the moon how can they get anywhere else,that's if they actually went to the moon.

@davidsheckler8417

2 жыл бұрын

@@equinox95 You can't go beyond that

@ronschlorff7089

2 жыл бұрын

@@equinox95 of course they didn't go to the moon, they paid all the 400,000 NASA prime and sub contractors' workers to keep quite about it too. "Fortunately" they are mostly passed on now. I think they each got about 50,000 bucks, for their silence; that's what made the Apollo budget so darn high (20 bill.)!! Facts, man, facts; glad you agree with me! ;D

Buckminster Fuller put it very simply: " We already live on a spaceship." That said let's take care of it rather than spew it with toxins while trying to get to other worlds.

@dalethelander3781

2 жыл бұрын

What's toxic? NASA's SLS uses LH2 and LOX. The by-product is water. The solid fuel in the SRBs isn't toxic, either.

I would like to see a parody video in this style where scientists back in 5000 BC discuss how it would be impossible to travel the globe

No, this is wrong. Time passes differently depending of the speed of the rocket. If your spaceship travels at speed of light no time passes inside the spaceship. Thus, you could go 13.8 billion light years instantly.

The nearest star system is less than five light years away. We only need to reach 10% of light to get there in less than 50 years. We should be able to send a probe at that speed before the end of the century. Given another hundred years we should be able to scale that technique to human travel. Less than two hundred years is far from "never."

@dekippiesip

2 жыл бұрын

And I would like to add, if we can go to one habitable exoplanet in the galaxy, we should be able to colonize all of them in an exponential process. If we can go to proxima and establish a presence there, we can eventually develop that and turn it in turn into a launchpad to a system under 10 ly from there, etc, etc. With each system we take our capacity to grow increases too. So we get a positive feedback loop of continious growth until the entire milky way is taken. The most interesting number is the average of the minimum distance between habitable planets in the galaxy. Because you are severely hampered if you have to use Mars like rocks in this process compared to habitable planets.

@vidyaishaya4839

2 жыл бұрын

@@dekippiesip exactly! I figure we can at least average 10% of the speed of light at colonizing the galaxy. It's round, and our path will be in both directions around the outside of the galaxy. The inner parts of the galaxy are the most dangerous for life. Multiply the diameter of the galaxy by pi times 10 and you have an approximation of how long it will take to colonize the galaxy. We'll also spread out to many other minor galaxies, and be ready for Andromeda when it gets here. There's one last thing. The problem with habitable exoplanets is they are likely to already have someone or something living there. We may only send scientists if simple life, or trade and diplomatic personnel to those with advanced life. Small planets, moons, and asteroids are the best because they're resource rich, minable, and we don't have to deal with existing life or an existing civilization.

@myflipnotes

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, the problem with this video is it assumes that we need to get to the destination quickly. If we were able to mine resources in space we could theoretically have a multi-generational space ship. Give it whatever time it needs, 100 years, 200 years, ect. However I think if we were able to live in space for a really long time we may not even need a planet and could just live in space. But of course there are benefits to living near a planet system. Additionally the video commented on how we wouldn't be able to established trade routes if the distance too that long to conquer. But there isn't any reason the colonies couldn't be independent from earth and our solar system. Also his proposed solution to the fermi paradox isn't necessarly the correct one.

@noujaadw

2 жыл бұрын

@@dekippiesip we cant even take care of our own planet, let us learn that first.

@neutrino78x

2 жыл бұрын

@@noujaadw we can do both at the same time buddy.

They said that we would never travel the globe, today we have planes that can circle the earth within the hour. Not long ago we produced a nano warp bubble. Which people said would never happen, yet it happened. It is people like you that give humanity the strength to push on, and we are likely on develop warp drive before the end of this century Galactic domination is inevitable. Also the warp bubble stops time dilation and makes the warp process possible. The whole process is rumoured to be able to work on a fission rector….

@bryanpayton1168

2 жыл бұрын

Please tell me which plane goes 25,000 mph...Yep, you got that part wrong...🤔

@RandomGamer-qy6ys

2 жыл бұрын

@@bryanpayton1168 starship, or have your forgotten there’s a variant for earth travel

@bryanpayton1168

2 жыл бұрын

@@RandomGamer-qy6ys, not a plane dude.

@RandomGamer-qy6ys

2 жыл бұрын

@@bryanpayton1168 ok, but I’ve still made my point, if u want I’ll edit it to say ship instead of plane

@RandomGamer-qy6ys

Жыл бұрын

@@bryanpayton1168 correction,, the gen 5 fighter uss sr-71 black bird

Believe me we will never fly in machines or have phones with no wires! You are just looking at it with today's technology eyes!

Until 1969 the moon was unreachable.

I believe we will 'travel among the stars' in the form of probes.

@phillipmel

Жыл бұрын

Yes, JB, good comment. There's not anything that we could gain nor learn from space travel that our probes have already told us. The super-far distance that both Voyager space probes have gone verifies this fact(s): The out-of-our solar-system region is mostly a void of dark matter with very little resistence to radio signals (from the Voyagers) through this open-matter. It has so little of what we would regard as molecular density, or even anything other than darkness, void and vacuum, that taking any trips by humans would be pointless and suicidal.

@medexamtoolsdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Now THAT is quite possibly true.

Thanks for crushing my hopes and dreams with solid explanations! 👍

@-ULTRA-Games

Жыл бұрын

He's lying

@JohnDoe-zl6qw

Жыл бұрын

A little more crushing for ya: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qZiEwbd9g9bbotI.html

"Believe me, men will never travel to the moon!" (Sokrates to Plato)

@BruceCarbonLakeriver

Ай бұрын

Maybe we didn't ^^

@mikcurius3779

Ай бұрын

Are u sure we did?

This is based on a very primitive understanding of physics. We are barely 100 years into modern physics and we think we know everything!!!!

To put in perspective how little we know only a few decades ago there was sort of a consensus among scientists that we would *never* know if other planets existed orbiting other stars. As of today we have discovered over five thousand. "Never" is too long, all possibilities are open.

@TheRealRedAce

Жыл бұрын

But HAVE we discovered any? Or just "theoretically discovered". Scientists seem to have great trouble distinguishing between theory and fact.

@jondoc7525

Жыл бұрын

James Webb can see them at a different level of clarity

@maximuscomfort

Жыл бұрын

@@jondoc7525, If JW scope does discover an intelligent life image it would be worth the 9 billion dollars spent.

@jondoc7525

Жыл бұрын

@@maximuscomfort the capability is but so many meteors we need to make one on the moon like they want to

@TheRealRedAce

Жыл бұрын

@@maximuscomfort I doubt it would. How can it be?

There are a few things to consider: 1) Einsteins special relativity can't explain everything, and is still slowly getting adjusted as we learn more. 2) different "colors" of light travel at different speeds, depending on their wavelength. Its on this principle that warp drives are theorized. If you can create a wave infront of you in space time, then it needs to contract behind you. You can ride this wave like a surfer can. 3) E=MC^2 translates to Energy = Mass * A constant. Regardless if in the future the formula holds up, it might mean that the theorized maximum speed is C^2 or 300.000 times faster then we currently believe. If this is the case, a trip to Alpha Centauri would take a theoretical 7 minutes 4) Nessecity breeds inguity. There will be a time in the future that we will have to colonize other planets and other solar systems. The sun does not live for ever, regardless if we can keep our earth livable or not. When this starts to happen, we will start travelling to other solar systems, even if it takes several generations to get there. Keep this in mind, We are only able to fly for 100 years. In that time we've been able to place a man on the moon, several objects on mars, and other celestial objects, and even have a man made object exit our solar system. We've switched from having steam engines that need a gigantic amount of wood or coal to solor powered drones that can loiter high up in the atmosphere for years without having to refuel. Who knows what we can do in another 100 years, Let alone a Thousand.

@qweqqweq2090

Жыл бұрын

time isn't real, other than real system of measuring real increments of movement of matter.

@marcossidoruk8033

Жыл бұрын

1. No, absolutely not, special relativity hasn't received a single correction or adjustment yet, literally all of Modern Physics and most hypothesis extending known physics require special relativity to hold exactly. You are taking out of your ass. 2. Total bullshit, light moves at the speed of light, period. The speed of light doesn't depend at all on wavelength and of course this isn't how warp drives work. You are taking nonsense. 4. The explanation given in this video was imprecise, and your inference of a supposed C^2 speed limit from mass energy equivalence is a blatant non sequitor, again, you are taking about stuff you don't even made an effort to understand, pure dunning Kruger energy.

@krivjeto

Жыл бұрын

Dont forget, we need to visit other universes, so we definetly have to learn faster than light speed travel.

That's why the deep field is so startling. The combined light of stars that are seperated by light years into galaxies and then thousands of galaxies..... we could be looking at the home of millions of civilizations who would never be able to contact each other. And thats a miniscule fraction of the entire universe.

I would be cool just traveling around the solar system at 50% the speed of light. No need to go 99%

For some reason people don't know about the 1 realistic method for interstellar travel. If a ship travels at a constant 1g acceleration rate it would get to Alpha Centauri in just 3.6 ship/7.3 Earth years, and this includes turning the ship around halfway to decelerate. This is by far the fastest way we can get to other worlds and the ship would have gravity the whole way. It would achieve about .95% light speed after about 1 year. A 10 ton ship would need a mere 10 tons of continuous thrust. All that is needed for this is a fission rocket that can put out thrust for long periods and does not consume hydrogen or xenon (you can't bring 500 tons of that with you). Uranium and plutonium are jittery atoms that are on the verge of fissioning by themselves, there should be a way to get them to fission in a linear fashion. What's needed is a controlled, time released nuclear explosion. 1 kg of uranium has the same enegy as 120,000 tons of coal and plutonium has more than that, only a small amout would be needed for the trip. In an atomic bomb fission occurs when neutrons hit the nuclei of uranium or plutonium atoms, this is because they will not tolerate an increase in mass. Due to the equivalence of mass and energy the same should be true if you infuse them with energy. This might be as simple as having negatively charged atoms coming into contact with positively charged atoms, or perhaps with laser energy. With the constant 1g acceleration method a ship can span the entire diameter of our galaxy in 24 ship/113,000 Earth years. Systems with stars similar to our sun can be reached in under 10 ship years. More info can be found on Wikipedia or watch the video "best method for interstellar travel"

@mihair2854

26 күн бұрын

It's not just the engines. You need some sort of super shields or forcefields as even a tiny rock would get massive energy when impacting your ship.

@shawns0762

26 күн бұрын

@@mihair2854 It would need a powerful radar. Radar emissions would travel at light speed regardless of the ships velocity. The ship would be at maximum velocity in the voids between systems were the chances of significant mass being in the flight path would be astronomically low.

Don't know who originally quoted this but I'll leave this here: Times are going so fast nowadays that people who say it can't be done are interrupted by people doing it. We will reach the stars, we have to or we die. No better motivation than that.

@firebird6522

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@leonardgibney2997

2 жыл бұрын

Dream on. Humans are too puny for prolonged space flight. We are dependent on too many things not easily found in space. Not boldly going anywhere.

@dalethelander3781

2 жыл бұрын

​@@leonardgibney2997 Elon Musk: Hold my beer.

@leonardgibney2997

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalethelander3781 Everything l hear about the cosmos tells me, "don't come here". You just have to view say, Anton Petrov's posts to get the flavour of it. People who blandly say men will reach the stars aren't thinking it through. I could write an essay on why they never will but it would take too long. In synopsis we're too puny, distances too great, ambiences too dangerous. In the KZread videos debunking Elon Musk they showed how his plans to reach Mars don't add up. There are too many unknowns as well.

@sean6775

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed & well said. This garbage reminds me of that 1899 Charles Duell quote: "everything that can be invented has been invented." If you think we are incapable of the type of achievement that could lead to interstellar space travel, you've obviously not been paying attention to either the 20th or 21st centuries. Can we do it now? Of course not. In 100 years? Perhaps not. To say that it's impossible in light of all the progress that has been made is both ignorance and pessimism of the highest order. Get off my video feed, noob. lol

Never say never. People used to say that human beings would NEVER fly before the Wright brothers.

Miguel Alcubierre Mexican physicist has shown that warping space is possible within the laws of physics, leading to faster than light travel. We do not have the technology to do that today but who's to say we wont 2-300 years from now if we survive as a species to begin with. I remember my father giving me crap for watching star trek and when I said it was a possible glimpse into our future he claimed we would never have any of those things. Well today we have a personal communications device in every cell phone, we have particle beam weapons capable of destroying incoming missiles. Lasers that can cut metal and reproduce the most intricate designs. We now have hypersonic missiles that can travel at speeds over 5 times the speed of sound, a barrier many people claimed couldn't be broken, until Chuck Yeager did it in 1947. Most of these things were developed within the first half of my lifetime just a 35 year period.

Well one thing's for sure. It won't happen in my lifetime. Or the the lifetime of anyone currently on earth.

@david9783

Жыл бұрын

So true.

@BrixyBrixhamite

Жыл бұрын

why so certain when the first human to live to 1000 may already be alive - who is to say how much human lifespans will expand during the next 10, 20 or 30 years. At the rate of our understanding and progress it is reasonable to assume there is indeed a possibility that we will reach the technological capability to extend life expectancy in the near future - the question is how can we manage over-poplation if we do so.

It’s scary to believe we are basically stuck unless we discover something huge that changes physics

@medexamtoolsdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Scary? Or a relief? The scourge of humanity is currently contained to Earth, whew. What's scary about that?

@lionelmessisburner7393

Жыл бұрын

Uhhh not true. There’s definitely ways to travel interstellar we just aren’t there yet

@NPCSpotter

Жыл бұрын

@@lionelmessisburner7393 we’re never traveling to another star. Modern science acting like false religion did in the past. Delusional

@MartijnHover

5 ай бұрын

I find it much more scary that because of capitalist greed we seem intent on destroying an environment that we have evolved to live in.

@applefoodie

5 ай бұрын

And worst, the speed of light, although fast to us, is REALLY REALLY SLOW compared to the universe. 2.5 million years just to get to the nearest major galaxy. Interstellar travel is extremely difficult, intergalactic is just impossible.

Fermi paradox is at play. We are alone in the universe. Additionally the Bible makes clear Earth is a very special place.

People once thought humans would never fly or fly through space or go to the moon. Humanity has done all of them, and we will one day travel to the stars with technology we can’t even dream about.

Why spend decades in a fragile spaceship in order to live in a space habitat around Alpha Centauri when you could live in one around our Sun for a fraction of the trouble, time, danger and expense?

@TLH442

Жыл бұрын

Because we can. Spam in a can. And we can re-spam ourselves to any place we want to go and I think that's a good idea. Think about that dandelion and all those little parachute things when it goes to seed. We should follow the cues of nature.

@ZygonesBzygones

6 ай бұрын

this is the point that many miss: we already have a space ship / space colony / habitat - and we are not managing it very well