I assume that giant space laser would be build by an Israeli company?
Yes, I'm looking at *you*, Marjorie Traitor Green.
And I'm rolling my eyes very loudly.
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Costa Michailidis
10/09/2023
What about a giant space sling?
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The durability of the materials that make up the spacecraft for voyages to other stars worries me the most. Regardless of the engine that is used for the trip. Break down or explode halfway on the trip. I mean cosmic rays do make materials brittle.
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7:30 Breaking in the stellar wind?
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Is that...stinky?
I'm asking for a friend.
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The powers that be will not allow human interstellar travel until humanity learns peace with itself.
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What happened to the Alcubierre Drive we were promised at 0:43?
When you say, "we'll get to it," do you mean in the "as a species" sense rather than the "in this episode" sense?
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There is also the option of chain fusion. From protium, to helium, to carbon fusion, extract fusion energy to the top.
Also far fetched.
More options, reverse fuel. Send through a Canon a fuel path. Try to create the concept of the Bussard engine of collected the fuel during the flight, just if it doesn't exist that fuel, you launch it before sending the rocket. Require a level of precision that it's probably impossible, but it can be explored.
Also, for previous colonized stars, laser or charged particles beams for solar or magnetic sails could also work for deceleration.
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Nunya Business
04/10/2023
If I was a billionaire and had to bet my fortune on one of these it would be antimatter.
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We've now taken hundreds of thousands ultra high resolution photos of space, in pretty much every direction there is. The answer to this is most likely to be as boring as the ending of the movie Ad Astra. There is no magic solution to our sci-fi fantasies. They are fictional. If space bending and "interdimensional interaction" was a thing, we'd seen some kind of natural occurrence of that by now.
I am not saying we're alone in space. Obviously not. I am just saying, space is so unimaginably vast that we will always struggle to reach any other interstellar civilisation. Sci-fi alternatives like "generation ships" will probably be the only way we'd "get across". A one-way ticket that'll take generations to complete.
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3.3 years from the astronaurs perspective, but what about on Earth? How long?
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Undeniable Paradox
13/10/2023
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Anti-matter drive is a very exciting possibility! We just need to figure out how to mass produce anti-matter. The potential it has as an energy source is amazing. 0.8c! Can you even believe it? But with anti-matter still being so hard to create, it might take some time, and until then, fusion should work ok.
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