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The resolution of the bottom of the sea is 5km per pixel. We do not even know hat is in the bottom of the sea. We plan on talking to aliens. But we cannot talk to whales, dolphins or even our dog.
I’m pretty skeptical of Interstellar travel myself. If humans don’t kill themselves off in a couple hundred years - I wouldn’t bet on it - I think we might reach near light speed travel. But even so, light speed is actually pretty slow in the big scheme of things. And human lifespans are short too. There is the paradox where it doesn’t make sense to send out astronauts on long journeys because if you do, in short order technology improves and if you send up a ship later it could pass the previous one. There’s a name for the idea but it’s slipped my mind. But we humans are probably stuck in our solar system which isn’t too bad though. If we could, say, go to Pluto with a manned mission that would be pretty impressive.
I have often thought about this and thought how cool it will be to be able to send a ship out to bring the voyager probes back with the total trip only taking a few days or even just a few weeks.
It would be easier and cheaper in the long term to terraform Venus ( a planet similar in size and properties to earth) if we could find a way to cool it down and stop the green house effect!
@@josepablolunasanchez1283 I completely understand your point. I’m actually a pretty positive person by temperment, but I’ve seen a lot of reprehensible things done by people, who should know better. It seems the inmates have always run the asylum. It’s just that whatever inmates are momentarily in charge declare their insanity to be “sanity “
We already can over come this, it just that it would take a monumental effort to do. Even with current technology. But its like people in the middle ages building an ocean liner like the titanic to settle the new world in one shot. They could do it but it would basically consume everything they were able to produce to do.
People saying we have to travel at the speed of light to get places..space is made of dark matter..as soon as we figure out what that is we will be able to move into bending space..we wont need to travel these far distances..we will bend space and bring those distances right in front of us
Sending people, large civilizations are difficult, but our machines will out live us. Since AI doesnt require much work to send, its better to send smaller, faster space crafts equipped with AGI and 3d printing to do surveillance and have it start producing things civilization needs long before humans can make it.
Just saying if we achive the speed of light (I know we cant) then also we cant travel 1/4 of milkyway. We are alone, so we should work on making this world of ours beautiful.
"Believe Me, Interstellar Travel Is Only A Mere Fantasy!" Believe me, people who write RU-vid videos can't write. So much of their output is grammatically nonsense.
The flaw with this is ego…assuming that he is at the pinnacle of technological and social development for humanity…who knows how far we will advance after our deaths…his included…it’s based on FOMO…yeah, we will miss it…too bad, may as well enjoy what we have today…might we blow ourselves up? Sure…but so far we’ve managed to do well enough not to…what I do believe is that we will see settlements off earth before we die…even if they’re small scale and done by companies and not the U.S. even if China and other nations like India move past us because we won’t spend the money…🤷♂️. Humanity is more than the United States. If it takes a million years to settle the solar system inch by inch…and we travel by slow boat to the nearest stars using fission and light sails…which we know these technologies work…ok, so what…we settled the planet very slowly…
I have been living on this planet for a while now and I can tell you that I have seen many things that were once thought impossible. The first computers were as big as a building. The first televisions were incredibly heavy. To listen to music you needed a turntable. If you wanted to call someone far away, it cost a fortune. Now all of this is in a device in my inside pocket.
Well put. This video is incredibly pessimistic, and only see the future in terms of human lifetimes and current technological limitations. We will travel between the stars. Before that, or even while we do that, we have an enormous solar system to explore and colonize. In time, life from Earth will expand through the Milky Way galaxy, and beyond.
Yes, we are in a very infantile stage of exploring the cosmos. What little we know we assume to be the law of the cosmos consistently. But we probably have not learned enough to make that assumption. Space travel could be happening somewhere using technology we earthlings never dreamed existed. Keep searching and we may keep finding solutions.
First computers were not that big , and have been around for thousands of years and fit into the skull of a human head. Pretty amazing machines really.
You are talking about inventions to be used on this planet. Here we are talking about interstellar space. Unfathomable distances humans can't even live long enough to reach.
This is the what I call the double bind of interstellar travel. Go fast, like near c, and any impact destroys you. Also, lethal levels of radiation so crew all dies. Go slow, and you avoid impact destruction and lethal rads, but, you are looking at an ultra-long voyage and you either run out of food, water, or supplies, or your ships systems fail with no means of repair long before reaching your destination. This only leaves some kind of wormhole, or 'jump type' drive, and those may not be possible no matter how advanced we managed to become. I come to conclusion years ago that interstellar travel in normal space is virtually impossible whether you go fast, slow, or somewhere in-between.
@@johnmorelli3775 I can think of reasons. Enormous power requirements, and 2nd, magnetic fields cant really be shaped like a shield, they are omni-directional and magnetic fields are also harmful to humans. Such a scheme might be feasible at low-speeds(see run out of supplies, spare parts), but at high speeds, I am less sure an artificial mag shield would be feasible. The idea has been considered, but as of right now, the complexity and difficulties of creating such a screen are considerable.
Intestelar space is almost nothing in it,and if you hit some particle your speed does not matter becase they allready travel at speeds close to speed off light
We can certainly send a craft to the nearest star, but with our current propulsion… it would take 100k years to arrive…. We would need to invent some kind of deflector shield; and advanced AI and robotics in charge of running it…. We would not need to navigate the vessel!….and the robots could in theory send info back to earth through the voyage!
@@dzonikg Almost nothing is still too much. Interstellar space is not truly empty...it's like an interstellar atmosphere that has a very very very low density. It's like traveling through any atmosphere. If you travel fast enough, even through the thinnest atmosphere, you'll inevitably start to encounter problems similar to reentry...and you'd have to slow down to reduce and slow down those effects (just like with reentry).
And yet in that ONE LIGHT DAY... It would require if a human was on board, a ship the size of the Titanic to have enough supplies to last for the half century long voyage.
Even if we eventually CAN do all these things these dreamers and futurists fantasize about, we should still take care of this living Earth, this truly fantastic planet!
Makes sense!! They said man could never fly & when the wright brothers did fly, the newspaper’s didn’t even print it straight away!! I wouldn’t bet against mankind given enough time!!!
Yes , but then again birds and insects fly , so we just needed to work out the mechanics. Yes light speed is also possible, but our current real life example is only the humble MASSLESS photon. So I guess that means we just need to figure out how to lose all of our mass. No easy task.
Your entire video comes down to stating one apparent fact and immediately following it up with saying, "on the other hand..." In the end you've told us nothing except to watch for future developments. Don't think we needed a video to know that.
So we're alone then? we can't have both, unfortunately (or at least, it extremely statistically unlikely) Either interstellar travel is an obstacle keeping space faring civilizations isolated...or we are alone. Pick one. We can't have both...that is the Fermi paradox. The guy who made the video understands this, hence the title of his video.
Yeah. He says, "Believe me..." He's not given me a single reason to believe him. He's like folks who used to say, "Man will never travel by rail, because if a train goes faster than ten miles and hour all the air will be sucked out of the train and the passengers will suffocate!"
@@relentlessmadman yeah I’m starting to think could be life everywhere but the distances are so vast and even reaching the speed of light (which is impossible) would still take well over 4 years to reach the next star system. No one will ever meet in the cosmos.
Not so fast Joe Going the speed of light is supposed to be impossible because of the amount of energy required to do so. Going fractions of that speed IS POSSIBLE from all that I've read even as much as 50% provided you have a warp bubble and Not the kind in star trek. I urge you to research both Fusion Reactor Tech. and the new Warp bubble. I believe by 2080 man could go to Proximus B which is a planet that is in the habitable zone of it's Star Alfa Centauri which is 4.3 light years away. Going 50% the speed of light would take 9 years to get there. May as well forget about coming back but you never know. Also unmanned crafts would have to be sent in the decades before. Another thing : Anti - matter might be obtainable by then.
At speeds we have now, we could explore the galaxy in a million years. No need for warp drives. We WILL travel amongst the stars. “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.” Clarke's first law.
@@sarah-janelambert8962 LOL, a ball point pen solved an engineering problem. The saturn 5 rocket solved an engineering problem. Obviously you did not do the math. Making a pen work is much, much easier than going to the moon. They both solved engineering problems. Just choosing an adjective to describe a problem does absolutely nothing to indicate anything useful about the problem. A dyson sphere is an engineering problem. Theres not enough matter in the solar system to build one so unless you transport all the matter from AT LEAST ONE OTHER SOLAR SYSTEM you cant build one. That's an engineering problem. Interstellar travel encompasses 4 to 5 MAJOR engineering problems. It is not impossible. It is so impractical to be de facto impossible. Do the math, thats all you need to do to educate yourself.
@@marveloussoftware4914 Since you emphasise it so vehemently, would you care to share your calculations? If a problem does not violate physical laws of nature, it is amenable to being solved by advanced engineering. Remember Clarke's first law? "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."
@@sarah-janelambert8962 did you even read my post? I explicitly state that it is not impossible. Then you claim, very unscientifically, that just because somebody said something you give it merit. That is the path to arrogance and being wrong. All throughout history people have made mistakes assuming what they wanted to believe is wrong.
Aliens have been here thousands of years ago and probably are still here if you think about it we've only had electricity the last 250 years there could be planets out there they had electricity for a million years we wouldn't even understand their technology if we saw it you can't say we can't make it to the nearest star that's just silly. We have to figure out how
Yes. It's just impossible for all of us. Note that for many of these worlds, the asteroid didn't stop the dominance of the dinosaurs. So, perhaps they've had 1 billion years of uninterrupted dinosaurs with no opposable thumbs.
Ben Rich of Lockheed Skunkworks said "we have the technology to take ET home". It's buried in an unacknowledged special access programs. They answer to no one and are illegal, a senator from Hawaii gave a speech on this. You can find it yourself if you don't believe me I already got in trouble for telling someone were to go for information.
Ad-blockers exist, or even browsers that can make watching a video with less advers possible. On my tablet, that's a different story. Wow. :( "ad block plus" is what I use. :)
@@NJcruiser Life itself is probably rare, but fairly common. (I know that sounds like a contradiction, as well as counterintuitive.) Let me explain: Life itself is likely fairly common, but multicellular life is probably comparatively rare, and big animals or plants, similar to elephants and giant oak trees are probably rarer still. And creatures like us that can build radio telescopes, nuclear power plants, toasters and spacecraft, are probably EXTREMELY rare, in fact, so rare, as to be likely undetectable by any other similar such species, who would be scores, if not hundreds or thousands, of lightyears distant from Earth.
When was the last time an insect splattered on your car windshield? Used to happen all the time in Spring and Summer here in north Georgia, don't know about where you live. In the last ten years, NO insect has splattered on my car windshield in north Georgia. This should alarm all of us.
@@Kerry-G Insect population decline is my reason, and recent (last 40 years) of insect population decline is a critical issue. For the last 20 or more years, no insects have splattered on my windshield while driving down the road. Before 20 or so years ago, I had scores of bugs splatter on my windshield in just a 5 mile trip. Many insect populations, especially the one's we value most, are dissappearing, becoming extinct. Do you understand now? We need the insects (and the plants), more than they need us. Truth!
It's frankly mind blowing how humankind's imagination is so narrowly limited that we, in good conscience, can make such bold claims without knowing all the facts, down to the most minute of variables. If that isn't the definition of ignorance, such a concept as 'ignorance' does not exist.
@heidetermeg427 I quite agree. We have severe limitations. I am sure that there are things that we will never know and also not do due to biological, physical, etc, constraints.
Do you realize how extremely difficult it was to land on the moon in 1969 with the computation power literally less than a smart phone and yet it was done. If it was fake they would not have gone through all the trouble to Fake it 4 times. Also Houston did most of the heavy lifting for them with tons of calculations and constant communications. They directed their every move almost.
You are not as intelligent as you think you are. There will Never be a time when All the Facts Can be known or the variables sometimes you have to take risks and you have to LEARN ON THE FLY. That's how we learn and Build on that Forever.
@@scottwhallin2461lol saying a stranger is not as intelligent as they think they are without knowing them is pretty “unintelligent” lol….you sound very pretentious dude
Think about this, when we where caveman we could have never imagined traveling to other side of our planet or land on the moon! We have done it! If we survive long enough with robots, knowledge and AI we will have the tech to do it. But it will be long time from now
@@david029014 The cavemen didn't really imagined about travelling to other side of the planet. Only the changing climate made them do that. And could do it because it was allowed in terms of nature allowing it.
If a civilization ever got advanced enough to where they could safely and quickly travel between solar systems they would be advanced enough to realize what a tremendous waste of time, energy and resources it is. The "problem" is that other than curiosity there will never be a reason or need to travel amongst the stars: if we get to a point where Earth can no longer support our needs, IE: we need more minerals, food, water, space to live - there is by far more than enough of what we will ever need within our own solar system. We have stories in the form of books, TV and movies about travelling in space to satisfy our curiosity and see what is out there, but realistically we would instead turn to finding some way to communicate with another civilization if we located one or if we REALLY need to go there we would send unmanned probes.
Colonising the Universe and becoming an intergalactic species is the benefit that we would get out of interstellar travel and colonisation. We would be imprinted throughout the universe and would have the ability to last for Eons and beyond. But travelling in conventional ways will be an impossible task. We will need to develop our Solar System terraforming planets, developing technology and then hopefully then, we may figure out ways to create portals to other points in the universe. In summary there is a lot of work to do until we get to that point.
Even if you could overcome all of the technical hurdles outlined in the video... There would still be the issue of finding another civilization that was at a similar point in their development as ours. Civilizations or even species can come and go over the course of tens of millions of years. Humans have only been technologically "advanced" for the last hundred years or so and we're probably closer to the end of our existence than the beginning. So finding a civilization that hasn't already come and gone would also be unlikely. Bottom line... It ain't gonna happen.
If aliens are here, they travel inter dimensional. Bend time and space. Emerge into our universe. They might even come from another universe. They could have capabilities we could never have. Such as certain elements on their world to harness. Have weapons beyond our scope of intelligence. Have technology we will never have because of resources we will always lack.
What if I told you that a man cannot run 100 miles an hour with his own natural body? What man among us is going to prove me wrong? Better yet, no man can fly like a bird by simply flapping his arms. Prove me wrong.
@@Alexey65536 Like the, 'space-plane' (takes off like a plane, goes to space, lands like a plane). We've been hearing about the 'spaceplane' concept for over forty years, but it hasn't come to tangible fruition because it can't be done. But so many geeks out there, due to what's called the, "Marvel Effect", believe that we can do things that we have no technological capability of doing.
Space trains. To avoid being vaporized the spaceships have to be made with a rotating surface shape like a drill bit that can rotate extremely fast so when the nuclear proportion forces kick off and push the spacecraft forward this will open up a new force field causing the two forces to emerge into each other like sliding a hand into a glove, this beautiful connection creates a single and powerful moving wormhole balanced around the space craft so powerful it can maintain a safe pathway to other star systems throughout deep space at light speed because the more power the nuclear propulsion is applied on to the back of the spaceship to help boost the speed the greater the protection shield against debris and meteorites This Nuclear propulsion super boom spacecraft is guaranteed absolutely friction free basically there is no need to ever worry about the spaceship turning into a light wave while traveling to other star systems basically said you can enjoy the ride without losing time because of friction.
You should realize you're merely talking in present terms where mankind still find sending a rocket incredibly expensive and tricky job. Space is the frontier mankind is yet to fully solve its intricacies before technology takes shape to harness the potentials hidden in its riddles. There was a time people didn't think harnessing the power of lightning aka electricity was even possible or to control/contain it.....yet here we are.
We're pretty arrogant at this phase in our evolution to think whether or not we'll become adept at spacefaring. My statement is equally arrogant 🤔 It's definitely fun to prospect, though. After all, isn't that one way we make our leaps and bounds?
Agree. And I think it's probably a good thing! For one, we ourselves, and any hypothetical alien beings, have no moral or ethical right to, 'colonize' or invade other LIVING worlds! If there is a Supreme Creator/Intelligence behind the Universe, and I believe there is, He purposedly spaced the stars, on average, about 5 lightyears apart, to make it impossible for his intelligent species to ever personally travel to other star systems.
I really wish you could have witnessed what I witnessed. They have some kind of portal or dimension port, or a stargate or whatever you want to call it, because I watched as 3 bright white overlapping ovals lit up in the night sky, flashed several times, a BB sized dot of light flew out, the ovals closed, and the BB flew about 2 seconds and shrunk down to about half sized, continued flying off into the distance. I watched that repeat 5 more times in the same spot in the sky, and at one point I saw a second set of ovals in the distance doing the same thing. There may have been others I didn't see, don't know. It wasn't a small thing in the sky, the 3 ovals' overall length was about 1 1/4", and around 3/8th" wide - it was VERY obvious, not something tiny. I watched over 2 dozen round portals pop up in the sky on another occasion - and I had my binoculars that time. I SAW a round white circle of light light up, a BB size light fly out, fly 2 seconds, shrink, continue out of sight. I SAW that in my binoculars, but even without binoculars the round circles of light were VERY visible. Hold your thumb and index finger 1/2" apart and hold it at arm's length, that's how big the circles were. I watched as one after another circles opened and closed and had a dot of light fly out, shrink, fly off. I even ran across the street to show a neighbor, but, of course, by the time I got there, got her outside, they had stopped. But I lost count around the 2 dozen mark, they were popping up so fast and in different parts of the sky that I lost count. So, since I saw these things happen, I don't think vast distances, debris, gases, solar radiation, or much of anything troubles them getting around in space. ,
@@longbowshooter5291 How do you know they aren't from Earth... just much more advanced and hiding from us? I have seen lights speed by me overhead at night while driving on a back road. I even went back to the same stretch of road the next day to see if wires or something could have caused it. Unexplainable to me, but I still don't believe it was aliens. I'm 75 and changed from believing that aliens are here in "flying saucers" to being very skeptical on the subject.
The Earth is flat. The sun revolves around the Earth. Man will never fly. Man will never fly faster than the speed of sound. Man will never go to the moon. Man will never reach the stars. At least this video is in good company.
You know, For centuries there was the idea we couldn't fly. "If man was meant to fly he'd have wings!" This was a common saying for anyone that wanted to fly. It took people creating technology to overcome our limitations to be able to fly. Our need to expand is such that We will keep looking for a way to leave earth. Interstellar travel may be fantasy right now but it's not smart to think it cannot be done.
If you told a person 200 years ago that you could make a bomb from a few pieces of metal that would split the very fabric of our universe and that would flatten a city in a split second they would think you are nuts, if you told the same person you could create a life form on a piece of special wafer thin material that is so convincingly human that you couldnt tell it apart from an actual human they'd probably call you a heretic, If you told them we could build a machine so advanced that it can see back to the beginning of time they would just laugh at you. Thats only 200 years ago and yet here we are. As a species we have only really been on the path of scientific advancement for 1000 years (if I am being generous) and every century or so we go back to the drawing board with a new theory that essentially overrides or significantly rewrites what was believed before. If you think our understanding of the universe (indeed existence) is almost complete you are as bad as the people of antiquity believing that sacrificing a pigeon on a fire will have any bearing on the days ahead.
Except that we had birds showing air flight was perfectly doable, just an engineering challenge. Same for cross ocean travel, polynesians did it basically on canoes. The more we know about space the harder it gets. By orders of magnitude.
@@pluck8913 I am a mechanical engineer and I can tell you that the laws of physics don't permit faster than light travel which is the speed of cause and effect. While mankind flying was an anatomical limitation. The speed of light is a physics limitation. Even getting to smaller significant fractions of light speed if dust hit a ship it would be equivalent to a nuke. While 10% may be possible it's still dangerous. I'm hopeful but our current understanding of physics (not technology) is the limit. We are more likely to figure out how to help people live for centuries than faster than light. As that is not a physics limit, it's only anatomical
@@fightwithbiomechanix One need not be a mechanical engineer, or even a phycisist, to know that faster-than-light travel is impossible. It is, however, possible to, 'approach' the speed of light. But hey, even if we could achieve 1% c, ie, 1,860 miles per/second (which would be an amazing achievement), it would still take us 430 years to get to Alpha Centauri system, and that includes ship time, as time dilation would be insignificant at that relativistically speaking, 'low' speed.
This is what I thought about personal video communication in 1973 - fantasy. Now, it is on level of smartphones. This is what I thought about curing muscle dystrophy in 2010 - fantasy. It is almost there by gene therapy.
No, in theory, wormholes. Bending space. Creating a shortcut. The only problem. it needs to be stable, and the energy you would need is unimaginable. According to a paper of Stephan Hawkings, it would be impossible. Although he was a massive fan of Star Trek. So forget it.
The reason this guy made this video is to "explain" why there's no sign of alien civilization out there. To prove him wrong, is also to prove that we are alone in this galaxy. Do you understand? If at least one other civilization exists in this same galaxy, AND interstellar travel is viable, then this one civilization should have colonized the entire galaxy by now. Even more so if the galaxy produced many spacefaring civilizations. The guy in the video has a hard time accepting that we might actually be alone (in this galaxy...due to being the first). He wants the galaxy to be filled with civilizations, hence why he's saying perhaps obstacles to interstellar travel is keeping civilizations isolated and unable to colonize the galaxy. So, if you're right, then statistically that would mean we are most likely alone (in this galaxy).
going to the moon is like traversing a small pond vs traversing the ocean and if we went to the moon it was very difficult. It seems that today we have problems going again. About Mars is pointless to talk.
My understanding is that it can be done through using "wormholes" that warp space snd time. A lot of science fiction uses this concept. But to produce a wormwhole, you need the energy of a star, so even if you could do it, that would use the Sun up. Not good. And then the 2nd problem; where are you going? And why? You need to arrive a a specific place. What if once you get there, it totally sucks. And most places will totally suck. Just lifeless rocks. If you are lucky maybe you'll find some slime molds. If you are unlucky, Cthulu will eat your brain for breakfast.
Just 150 years ago we didn’t have Airplanes, Helicopters, Space Stations, been to the Moon, have Satellite’s, Nuclear Power, internet, we do now, who’s to say what we will be doing in another 150 years.
@dee0017 F=ma. To accelerate mass forward, you have accelerate mass backward. This is essentially what photon's are doing as they lose mass over distance. E=mc. Atomic energy converts to radiant energy with acceleration. The cosmic limit is c. The only way around it is to warp acceleration. E=mc^2 warps the natural radioactive decay process in the time frame. How do you do it in the space frame. Since physicists are still stuck on stupid with their stationary plane physics (mass as an actionable force). You aren't making in advancements in space travel. You still think space and time are one frame of reference for Pete's sake. E=mc. Everything is an emergent property of acceleration. Figure out what is acceleration and you might go far. I'd dump that idiot Einstein and his relativity nonsense. Motion is absolute. You need to redefine c as something other than the speed of light.
Don't listen to that FOOL Look how much progress has been made just since 1900 compared to All the centuries before. Just in 2024 there have been many breakthroughs in Fusion reactors which could be used to power a ship to go to Proximus B. There have also been progress in creating a Warp bubble for the ship in recent years. It is Not like the one in Star Trek so don't say it's impossible. Instead Reseach it for yourself. I don't believe reaching the speed of light is possible But what about Half the speed of light From All I've read That IS POSSIBLE. Going to Centauri B could be done in 9 years at half the speed of light. If we don't Blow ourselves up I believe the trip with humans could be done around 2080 if not sooner. Unmanned ships would have to be sent there in the decades before of course.
It will be accomplished, though not for 100-200 years. We would need to discover extraterrestrial travel technology (antigravity, electromagnetic field controlled travel). If they can get here, we will get there. The problem is we'll likely become extinct before this discovery.
Those were achieved with the current laws of physics, but interstellar travel with matter and mass means going against or outside the laws of physics as we know it. How are you sure physics laws are the same across the universe? Do you know if there are laws of physics in outer space different from what we know or persieve? Do you know if there are lot more elements in outer space which we don't know yet? What we know about space could actually be 0.000001% of what is out there.
@@TheStephaneAdamWe have nuclear submarines and power, and moon colonies are being planned. People likely couldn't have guessed about AI or the internet or particle accelerators.
@@ericgolightly8450 Google Chess Turk. People were guessing AI in the 1700's. And we're actually no closer to AGI than we were in the 1700's by the way. LLM's are amazing but they're no smarter than your toaster. WEB3, the Metaverse, Hyperloop, Bitcoin replacing the traditional banking system... Enthusiasts always go to the powered flight scepticism because it's one of the few times when sceptics were wrong. Usually the hype is just that. Hype. Do I think I'll see a lunar research base in my lifetime, similar to what we see in Antartica? Yes. I'm almost certain it will happen soon-ish. But an actual colony? No. For the same reason why you don't see cities in Antartica times 10.
@@ericgolightly8450 Google Mechanical Turk, AI has been imagined for longer than computers have been around. And fueled a lot of scams over the centuries. WEB3, Bitcoin replacing the banking system, Hyperloop...
The theorist now believe space/time is only a stepping stone towards a fundamental theory. Personally, I believe consciousness is fundamental and it's potential is governed by the physical laws of it's proximal local. A new local with new physical laws would result in a conscious creation completely unrecognizable from the previous local.
"Believe Me, Interstellar Travel Is Only A Mere Fantasy!'" - And another thing: don't tell that to the aliens who come to Earth over interstellar distances!!!!! They'll laugh in your face!!!!!
Several things: * Fermi paradox is not solvable because there are just not enough information - we might not like idea but it is highly probable that answer to this will be provided not in our lifetimes; * Distances are HUGE, this alone makes querying data incredibly difficult; * Traveling between stars is highly likely probable, but decision to do such journey is most likely why it is not gonna happen in nearest 200 years or so - it is insane waste of resources; * I can only see it happening if our civilization overcomes it's worst instincts and is capable to harbor resources from rest of Sol to build such expedition; Definitely not gonna happen in next 100 years.
You don't know that. Think of where we were 100 years ago. The Model T was just coming about, No cell phones, Tv was invented in 1927 but wasn't commercially available for a bit. The internet was not a thing for about another 50 years from 1920. Imagine telling somebody in 1920 that we would have a magic box that lets us watch whatever we want, or describing the internet to them, or even telling them that one say they will have a device in their pocket that would allow them to communicate with anybody in the world just by dialing their number. Now look at some new technology today, VR is still in it's infancy, the James Webb Telescope is incredible, and we are witnessing the birth of actual intelegent AI. I'm not saying for sure interstellar travel will be available in the next 100 years but I wouldn't close the door on it ether.
@iroamxx Nothing you described violates the laws of physics. Traveling between stars in a reasonable amount of time would require faster than light speed travel and, unfortunately, that does.
@@Living89the nearest star is 4.3 light years away so we wouldn’t need ftl to get there in less than a decade. And who knows, maybe we’ll eventually figure out wormholes or something
@@Living89 like that other guy said, wormholes. Keep in mind, hundreds of years ago people thought the earth was flat (some still do). Who knows what we have not discovered yet
@@iroamxx My point is that it seems to me that many people believe that given enough time, humans will figure out how to do about anything and use the changes over the last hundred years or so as an example. My parents are 95 years old. Think about the difference in the world they were born into and what it is now (technology wise). The problem is that those changes are miniscule compared to what it would take to become an interstellar species. In order to do that, you need to find a way to beat what we know about physics today or prove everything we know is wrong. It would be awesome if we could make a "warp drive" like they had in Star Trek, but it's also possible and perhaps likely that no matter how much time humans have, it is simply impossible to develop technology that would allow us to safely explore outside of our own solar system. I'm too old to ever find out. I'll be lucky to see humans on Mars in my time.
Nah, first a rocket will travel to Earths orbit, there it will join frontal shield to catch particles and then we can travel 20% of speed of light. There I solved it for you, and you are welcome :-)
Some of you misunderstood when I said "....man will never fly." I didn't mean it literally. I'm saying in my opinion, everyone who keeps saying FTL is impossible is wrong just because we don't currently know how to do it, doesn't make it impossible
@Dionysos640 I agree with you that there are facts that limit us but where we disagree is the understanding of facts plenty of our facts are in actually theories granted we call them facts because we understand 99.9% of these conscept and the rest we just say "this is the only way it can be possible " many times in history had a fact been changed when a new discovery had been made
Believe me, the Earth is flat. Believe me, the Earth is the center of the Universe. Believe me, the Sun revolves around the Earth. Believe me, we will never fly. Believe me, we will never break the sound barrier. Believe me, we will never land a man on the moon. I could go on and on. So shut up and wait and see.
Very good video, Insane Curiosity! Now I'm just waiting for the "No one thought it was possible to fly...!"-crowd, who ALWAYS have to try and compare things that totally un-comparable. "We broke the sound barrier, so why shouldn't we be able to break the speed of light?" and so on and on...... And the best (eg worst) one: "Nothing is impossible!".......... Wrong! Many things are, and will forever be Impossible. If you want to change the world for the better, school yourself. Realism is not the same as pessimism. Stop chasing clouds, and put your work where it can make a difference; not where you WISH it matters.
They're not incomparable at all. It's literally the same situation in different time periods. Passing the speed of light is likely impossible. But we can still get close to it and get a similar effect.
We’re not even a Type 1 civilization yet. Until we reach Type 3 or 4, we’re stuck within our own solar system. We need thousands of years to get there.
Many car EVs now can accelerate at 1G force ,so you have a artificial gravity with just more expensive car acceleration ,and accelerate for one year with just that 1G and you will reach almost speed off light
I don’t think people understand how vast space is and inadvertently think of it as some black stuff you have to drive through with your really fast car like going to work. Try looking into how long it would take to reach the center of the galaxy at ten times the speed of light and then you will realize how isolated we truly are, the universe has conspired against us to keep us in our lane.
Interstellar travel is impossible for humans of today. Its duration and hazards, mostly radiation and collisions with interstellar matter (dust, meteorites), are absolute destroyers of any biological or mechanical systems we may conceive at present. But some sort of constantly renewing and self-repairing bio-robotic AI might perhaps be constructed in the future that could be sent on a journey lasting tens of thousands of years. However we may well be able to build space telescopes large enough to let us observe exoplanets in sufficient resolution to see biomarkers in their atmospheres and on their surfaces. Should we identify sufficiently developed exo-civilizations, we might exchange our DNA blueprints with them and have them assemble humans in their laboratories.
Of course there are lots of possibilities for humans to achieve but there are equally limits to possibilities we could attain. Like for example, what is the possibility that humans can swim across the Atlantic ocean west to east without ships, submarines, masks, nor swimsuits even in the next 1000yrs?
Considering the HUGE amount of energy needed to travel the speed of light to a destination, once there, wouldn't we need the same amount of energy to slow down?
Great point! Yes, it would take a lot of energy to slow down too. Traveling at the speed of light is really tricky because of the enormous energy needed for both speeding up and slowing down.
Yes. The ship used would be almost entirely filled with fuel. Half the distance would be acceleration, the second half would be deceleration. It's actually far more difficult and complicated than people realize.
@@charlescz1974 we are not talking about phonws here, kid. Its about travelling faster than the actual reality allows which will never happen even if we survive for more than a million years
Interstellar space is not an iPhone. We lived long enough to create it. However, here we are talking about interstellar travel and space, where the human body cannot live long enough to get there. Way different from creating an iPhone within fifty years.
It could be possible in the future, I'm sure 500 years ago someone boldly stated that going to the moon would be impossible for humans to achieve. You never know what new technology could be discovered in the future.
Incidentally, can't remember his name, but a certain phycisist, around 1867, declared: "We will never know what the Sun and the other stars are made of, because we will never be able to get to them." Two years later, the science of spectroscopy was developed, and we discovered that most stars, including the Sun, are largely made up of hydrogen and helium. In fact, because of spectroscopy, helium was discovered on the Sun before it was ever found on Earth! (Helium is rare on Earth, because it is only formed from the decay of Uranium.) Fascinating, yes?
Oh, ye of little faith! They used to say that it was unnatural for man to fly and we would never do it, but people are flying every day. And there are many other examples like this of misplaced negativity! "Never say never" as my dear old Pappy used to say. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Human imagination and ingenuity is far greater than you think. (Quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare and other places.)
You know all the math, but not to bright, people like you will not be the ones to travel to the stars, that takes imagination, sorry but you have none.
I promise we will never leave this solar system. Most people don't have a clue how big this solar system is and how many thousands of years it will take just to leave the solar system.
@@CapitalMover Only in a specific sense of the word. Voyager has crossed the border of the heliosphere- the point where the solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium. However, there are regions much, MUCH farther away that are still considered part of our solar system by other definitions (e.g. the Oort Cloud).
