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Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the solar system; however, with modern technology, it would take thousands of years to reach that star. Will we ever have the technology to reach the closest star to the solar system?
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Proxima Centauri it is located approximately 4.2 light years away and is part of the Centauri star system, the minor star of the three that make up the entire system.
For years this star has been observed with the most powerful telescopes in the world, and thanks to this, we have discovered that the star Proxima Centauri has at least one exoplanet that could have the conditions to host living beings.
This makes reaching this star a matter of great importance for humanity since this distant world could have living beings or be a human settlement in the future.
But how difficult would it be with modern technology to get to this star?
In short, a LOT.
It would be tricky; it would be the most challenging feat that the human race could perform in the distant future and one of the most important if it were to be achieved; suffice it to say that, in the modern era, even with the technology we have we have not managed to send a spacecraft out of our solar system, nor have we taken humans beyond the moon.
Not a human being has set foot on another planet other than Earth, so you can be entirely sure that there is still a long time before we manage to send the first spacecraft to Proxima Centauri, but … How much left precisely? Do we have any estimated dates for when we might reach this star? Let’s see what the science says about it.
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00:00 Intro
1:51 So close and so far
3:50 What propulsion systems can we use?
4:29 VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket)
5:38 Pulsed nuclear propulsion
6:56 Solar sails
8:28 Laser candles
9:48 Star Shot Project
Conclusion
#insanecuriosity #proximacentauri #spacecolonization
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at 9:02…. Are. You. serious….
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. the Voyager 1 spacecraft made the passage on August 25, 2012!!
Voyager 2's date of departure from the Solar System was 5 November 2018!
I don't know what alternate Mandela effect universe you originated, but you aren't there no more Toto..
Better research makes smarter folks.
If you cant even reach the closest neighbour, you know you are little, useless, and visists from aliens are veerrry unlikely
We just need to build a computer that can CREATE LIFE when we arrive. Time isnt that important then.
Creating humans in lab tubes isnt impossible. Neither is it impossible to so it with other life, like plants and animals.
But the most important part, WHO or WHAT will take care of the helpless babies in the first generations?
Robots?
"Why Is it Challenging To Get To Proxima Centauri?" – It's challenging to get to the frigging moon.
My travel agent says no way.
Imagine you know they arrived there around this time but still have to wait 4years for it to confirm🤯
Em drive coupled to Tesla resonant auto transformer would do the trick.
We should leave other stars alone. Never know if we could wind up pissing off the neighbors
No petrol stations along the way, thats the real reason.
We dont have the petrol.
did like the text
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. It would achieve about .95% light speed after about 1 year. Not only is this by far the fastest way we can get to other worlds but the ship would have gravity the whole way. A 10 ton ship would need a mere 10 tons of continuous thrust.
All that is needed for this to become a reality is a fission rocket that can put out thrust for long periods and does not consume hydrogen or xenon. A true fission rocket should consume only uranium or plutonium. They are both jittery atoms that are on the verge of fissioning all 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.
In an atomic bomb, fission occurs when neutrons hit the nucleus 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.
In 30 000 years the alpha centauri system will come within 3 light years of the sun as will barnards star i say we make the trip then that should give us enough time to develope the tech and be living under one world government as its a project that will require the joint effort of humanity the idea that our splintered divided society of today could accomplish something like interstellar travel is laughable in the extreme.
Little scientific errors are making me consider unsubscribing. I don’t know if it’s poor research or reading errors by a narrator without subject literacy, but they’ve been a pretty bad, and easily fixable, problem in the last few otherwise interesting videos.
The only way we can travel is by sending our form digitally and an alien species recreating it on their side.
I'm guessing because its a VERY long way away in interstellar space and we don't exist in a Sci-fi novel. Having said that, its seems incredible to me how many people can't distinguish science fiction from science fact. You only have to read the comments on ANY "space" video to see that.
Where would we be without teejays?
Don’t forget you need to decelerate as well
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we dont even have the slightest clue on lighttravel or warp tech. i guess its not hard to understand?
Weeeeee aint going nowhere!!!
Humans will probably not go there, at least not until warp drives have been invented. Robots might be able to reach it in beginning in a few hundred years.
Let me tell u what will happen if humanity ever reaches and colonizes space(wich i believe willnever happen), interstellar war, and no not between aliens but like it always has been here on earth, between factions of humans, we are the aliens we portray to be the bad guys in movies, if we reach space we will become a real plague, but that will never happen cause we have like 10000 years 😉
Our society is not organized to engage in inter-stellar travel. The US spends the equivalent of .5% of GDP on the NASA budget. Hard to imagine that ever increasing significantly without profit being involved in some way. Even terraforming Venus or Mars here "at home," a work of many generations by definition, is out of reach. It has been pointed out that medieval Europeans built cathedrals not because they expected to see their completion in their own lifetime but as an act of faith. We lack any similar motivation. (Notice how this video evaluated any propulsion system that could not get an individual or probe to Proxima Centauri in the span of one human lifetime.) And if we hit 8C global warming, we won't have to worry about this, or much else for that matter. We need to take the next step in the development of our own consciousness more than technology. Sagan was a visionary.
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Another hyped pie-in-the-sky space travel video. This will never remotely happen!
Why?
We will have killed each other off in the next 100 – 120 years!
Earthlings traveling to another planet kinda reminds me of a family that totally trashes their house, scribbles graffiti on walls and ceiling, dog poop all over the floors, and then moves to another house in another state thinking that things are gonna be better. Until we learn how to live together and become good stewards of this planet, we will carry our troubles with us no matter where we go.
In the 19th century it was unthinkable that there would ever be missions to space.
If we want to go the speed of then we must figure out how to us light somehow as a propulsion system.
We could do it but it would mean our death, one must die, then be transformed into pure energy, or light, being light we travel at light speed.
answer. too far even lightspeed.. and we know material cant move lightspeed without turn photons (explode) now its revealed
6 month to mars is long time. even lightspeed (that we never get) closest start is years away. remember 6 month to mars is long
Humans spend 8 ours on a jet and they’re fckd for three days, how the hell can we survive in a rocket? I climb a mountain and I’m gasping and cramping, how the hell does Mars seem like an option. A penitentiary on earth is eden compared to what’s out there.
Wouldent it be a waste to travel to a star? planets seem much more desireable, even asteroids would be better than a star.
If you make a docu then make sure it's factual correct. No the Voyagers are not the fastest human created object humanity has launched. They are the first ones with destinations outside the solar system. The fastest spacecraft currently is the parker solar probe which due to gravity assists has reached speeds multiple times faster then the voyagers 61.500 km/u (voyager) vs 692.000 km/u (solar park probe). Don't take my word for it just search for it. Yhe data is available on the internet Solar Park Probe is 11.5 times faster then the voyagers.
Because it's fecking light years away.
Will never happen. Mankind will be extinct long before we can develop Interstellar tech. THE END.
Even if the technology is workable, Breakthrough Starshot assumes that the governments of the World would allow someone to build and operate what is effectively a 100 gigawatt laser cannon. Such a thing could effortlessly burn every satellite in orbit around Earth in a matter of hours. I don't see that happening.
0:33 "part of the Centauri star system" – i think they meant "alpha Centauri star system" – 'Centauri' alone would refer to the constellation, a group of stars widely separated from each other and not part of the same gravitationally-bound system.
I just checked, there are no trains or buses scheduled for Proxima Centaur for tomorrow. Please check back with me after the weekend.
The real challenge of interstellar travel is that I will only let people I like aboard my starship
Proxima Centauri is not a good bet for a habitable planet as it's a red dwarf flare star. So any planet in the Goldilocks Zone is probably tidally locked and will get deep fried every few thousand years.
One thing that should be clear by now: "a significant chellenge" is a monumental understatement, when it comes to interstellar travel even if we are talking about timy probes.
Re – pulsed nuclear propulsion
So there's a plate that absorbs the shock wave, right?
The only problem there is, nuclear weapons don't produce a shock wave. Not in space, that is. It doesn't matter whether you use fission or fusion, or even anti-matter. None of them produce a cloud of expanding gases the way combustion does.
On earth we have an atmosphere. When a nuke goes off, it releases a LOT of energy. We experience that as light, heat and radiation. That heat is then transferred to the surrounding atmosphere. The hot air (superheated air, actually) expands rapidly, producing a shock wave.
In space, there is no air. Since there's no air, we can't superheated the air to create a shock wave. Without a shock wave, a nuclear detonation in space releases light, releases heat and releases radiation, but there's NO shock wave. The Orion spacecraft would work in Earth's atmosphere, but once it reaches space, it would never be able to increase its velocity.
Maybe next week, Insane Curiosity could do a special on nuclear weapons in space and start undoing sone of the damage that Hollywood has done over the years, making people think that nukes in space would create clouds of expanding gases, etc…