The Alpha Centauri System 

Me too. Just think that people a century from not (maybe reading this comment) will likely long for times such as the ones we live in for a number of reasons, some known and some unknown to us now.

*Earlier

@@chrisgould101 Thanks, I'll make sure to remember that.

@@Syndicatian won't remember it if it's in the future

@@chrisgould101 Oh, I thought it was a grammer correction. My mistake, sorry. I'd rather be born inside a incubation chamber on mars than to expierience WW2 and other atrocities of the past century, thank you.

I don't know... The life span of a 16 year old liberal these days is only about 34 years. Don't be a stupid liberal and you might see this.

JOE KNG what do political views have to do with anything?

JOE KNG he never said his political opinion...

@@peradolia MURICA' BABY

For you, 16 year old student, in reality, 'pictures' will be the closest humanity actually come to that star system. 'Star Trek' is still cool but no 'dylithium crystals' are going to be found. I will be happy with a couple decades of JW shots!

wait what

@@1000-THR Yep, Proxima Centauri C and D

There’s 7 planets orbiting the 2 suns A and B. There’s a civilised society called the Metoni living on a planet called Meton

@@sal8454 What civilised Society?

@@filus05 but are thet exo planets too?

I doubt the probe we'll send will be able to reach a 15% c average speed necessary for a 30 year travel time, probably closer to 1,5% to 3% c (150 - 300 years) at least if we want it to slow down whem we get there, and we want to send one this century.

it was 500 years from the first human looking at the moon with an optical telescope and realizing it was a spherical world similar to the Earth, with mountains and craters until Neil Armstrong stepped off the pad of the LEM and made a human footprint on the moon. Whats your rush?!

You could solve this problem with quantum communication. You entangle 2 particles 4 light years apart. When you affect one the other is affected immediately in a predictable way. You might start off with morse code but could work up to full blown audio after many iterations.

@@paulpena5040 you can not use quantum entanglement to transfer useful information. It's kinda like hiding a ball beneath two cups shuffling them so you don't know which has one, then separating them. When you look under one of the cups you instantly know if the other is hiding a ball, but you still can't really use this to send usefull information.

@@plainText384 Incorrect. Everything on your computer right now from complex visual images to audio, video, databases, etc can essentially be reduced down to 0s and 1s. That's the language of binary the only REAL language that a computer understands. Every other language or abstraction layer is compiled down to it. If you know whether the other is "hiding a ball" you know the answer to the binary question. Hence, information. Enough of these and you can convey ANY information.

So amazing!

I doubt that I'll likely live that much longer but it gives me hope for my children and grandchildren . I've seen so many terrible and wonderful things in my life so far . I hope that no one forgets the past but continues to reach out to the future . Our life is so very small in the measure of the universe but we have learned so much in such a short period of time . Life is amazing !

The thought fills me with joy, would really need a small enough atomic clock before it would be possible thou

Richard Aitkenhead It would be possible most likely not in our time but I wish my children or grandchildren will see it

Maybe if we did that we could accelerate it more as our laser technology improves as well

The cathedral analogy is right on. When they were built everyone from the King to the poorest peasant were committed. I dont know if society today is dedicated in the same way, or would be willing to pay for a multigenerational project. But I hope so.

With suspended animation, You do not have to age at all. It's quite impractical to carry that much food and waste water over 2 generations of people ! Suspended animation is the key to our intergalactic travel ambition.

There are ten dimensions where do you think the heaven is

@@revanvonheaven8270 Interesting question, considering the way God is described in scripture, he is capable of perceiving both past and future as the present, which means he can perceive at least four dimensions, and possibly 10. I’d suppose, in the case that God and heaven are real, they would at least be in the fifth dimension, if not the 10th or even beyond.

No one will reach it.

Why would that be

I require a link

Thx

@@randomdude3318 np

It wants to propose to me. How sweet..:

Ill give it a call then

yeah like what were the chances of that

@@kennethdobos9755 its a hugh chance tho

@@kennethdobos9755 if im not mistaken theres billions of solar systems, so very likely

Right? It's so weird. It's the closest star to us and it has an earth size planet in its habitable zone. How jackpot is that.

One more religious than I would say that it was placed there just for us.

Only two galaxies that can keep up with each other

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too in the another galaxy or universe.

@@icyfrostydookie7168 u r from Mars?

@@edmbkn5258 Your head is too far from mars. I'm in earth, did you see what I commentedn

@@icyfrostydookie7168 just kidding, chum

@@edmbkn5258 Hope we don't reach the planet of predators, or else u know how it goes

And a free anaconda, don't forget that

T-Shirt and a shot glass.

@@connorwirsing8318 aye... the free Conda at Hutton Orbital

Gotta do it for the pilgrimage and bragging rights, the mug is just a bonus. The Hutton Orbital run is a rite of passage to an extent.

nice E:D reference

Big brain moment

@@nezlol1234 Not really. Our bodies are ravaged just if we're orbiting our own Earth. From rapid distrophy to increase in cancer etc. We will have to be cybernetic, mostly robotic to link/fix our biological weaknesses. The reality is we will have to be further away as human as possible to survive outside our planet.

right! the greys are avatars

The Flesh is weak, But the Machine is strong!

@@Despond Yet people went to the moon, came back and grew old. The main problem of interstellar travel is accelerating mass to a speed that makes any sense, and even if we could do that, even the max atainable speed is quite slow in astronomic terms. The hope lies in warping space.

Almost like the image of an atom being made of mostly space.

Yea. The sheer sizes involved when you consider the universe as a whole are truly mind boggling.

Difficult to get my head around as well. But yes, mostly just the occasional bit of dust and a photon or two. It's like the second law of thermodynamics is jealous.

The numbers we use don’t really help much. If you say a light year is six trillion miles or ten trillion kilometers, we just know they’re really big. Not how big. It’s really hard to really wrap your head around it. Or, in this case wrap it around your head 10 quadrillion times.

You only learned half the truth. Stellar objects rarely collide even if they are close to each other. They would just continue circling each other because of gravity. The planets, however, are at a huge risk. Because if a star showed up that started affecting our sun even by a smallish margin, it would mean Earth's orbit getting messed up. Who knows, maybe we'd even get thrown out in the universe.

Maybe this what u feel like when your a sperm

@@chrisgould101 wtf

@@onax0013 introduced

When you belong to the small percentage of human beings who have unlimited access to electricity, clean water _and_ the internet, and use it to bemoan the harsh fate of not living on the USS Enterprise.

You can definitely still explore earth

Woah... That's a good one!

Shit... That's _far_ .

At what speed are they going?

At that distance they will not have even surpassed the ort cloud and still effectively would be within our solar system.

@@Trollseeder About 30000 MPH. Mostly obtained by the slingshot effect from the planets

No way

@@deadchannel5933 let a man imagine and dream we have achieved a lot in the past couple of decades it might actually happen

@@killerqueen4681 Are you fkn crazy? We're barely managing to send humans safely and fast enough to Mars and back inside our Solar System within this decade and we are also barely managing to send the tiny "Solar sails" in about 20 years to Proxima Centauri with 20% the speed of light and you think humans will make it there to Alpha Centauri/Proxima Centauri within @wassollderscheiss33's daughter lifetime? That's some heavy stuff you smokin' there, buddy! We first also need to solve the issues with our own planet that we caused, and that takes a lot of time, after that we struggle even more to get to Mars and back quickly and safely enough with humans..

@@deadchannel5933 dude calm down what are you getting so hyped up for no one believed it was possible to land boosters from orbit yet spacex does it, starship is almost up and running they landed that huge monstrou rocket all of this happened under 5-7 years since spacex first landed successfuly in 2015, his daughter is just 2 months old who knows what technology we might discover yup im not saying we are gonnaset foot on alpha centauri in a decade or so but lets be optimistic about space travel cuz thats the only thing good about this planet, im not even old im just turning 17 and she is just 2 months old you never know what happens mate, we are definitely seeing humans on mars in the next 4-5 years nasa is working on artemis its going to be a wonderful decade calm down and imagine i dont want to be unscientific but it feels nice to think that interstellar travel might be possible

@@killerqueen4681 he isnt getting hyped, hes literally speaking facts

Im glad

Definitely worse things you could be doing.

Same 😄

Same. Lol. I'm loving it.

It's great to hear that you folks are getting into it! I have been for a long time now, but it always makes me happy to hear about others talking an interest and learning about it. The more the merrier! It's a fascinating subject, and I truly believe it can make you a more enlightened person - not just about the cosmos, but about life itself. The two are not unrelated.

Just Some Guy without a Mustache That’s extremely demanding.

Might not welcome us, the devils and their spawn!!!!

Gordon jojo fitness spongebob and dunky

PerfectYinYang How? It’s a wish calm down buddy

Just Some Guy without a Mustache how are you everywhere?

Hopefully we can get you to learn enough that you shed this archaic worldview and embrace science.

they were totally wrong

They never said that

@@conormayweather5474 he did tecnically but its misquoted thats not actually what he said

@@womp47 How can he have technically said it if it's not what he said? That's incoherent.

@@jursamaj I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years." "The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies." Actual quote. (Wikiquotes)

The Three Body problem..... Surely an intriguing triology., but also making a big appeal on scientific knowledge.

There's also two books in a short series by Stephen Baxter, the first one of which is called "Proxima". What amazes me about these is that I had finished reading both books by the time the news of the planet hit the news and new scientist, yet the books cover basically the same planet. Somehow he had managed to write the books a few years ahead of time and on time for me to just have finished them as the news broke. That author is absolutely some kind of wizard, possibly a time travelling one here in disguise as a hard sci fi author.

I’m by no means an expert however would assume that as the journey would take ~5 years, the vessel would be travelling at close to c, the speed of light, which would be far too fast to maintain an orbit around these stars. The only thing capable of putting light-speed objects onto orbit is a black hole.

I mean, it could work, but you'd HAVE to slow it down.

If I recall, that was called the Orion project and was rightfully dismissed as lunacy.

me too

I am 75% sure it won't be happening. There is not much information about that Program. And also, the website looks like a joke.

Paul ice Cryogenically freezing is BS

Lol did you play fallout 4

Vio Gt not gonna work lmao, the body still dies even if it’s perfectly preserved

artificial immortality is very possible, the neuralink will push us closer to it, or even make us immortal

@@nekopushyo i dont think we have the technology to do that yet

Do you mean Bob (15 degrees) Knodel the liar and fraud ?

@@WildPhotoShooter None other. Though... we could call him Standby-Bob since his 15 degree drift clip is.... globally popular. XD

what do you expect from a fraud commercial pilot...

@@nilz91 Yes , Wolfie sorted that lie out, the only commercial piloting Bob was good for was crop dusting .

Humanity will never be allowed beyond this shithole system

And also about the size of a bacterium.

I think B5 lied to us, no way the Centauri are so close and we hear nothing from them....

Hmm, I wonder why, username ALPHA CENTAURI x'D

Why does it resonate with you

No Way I could Tell, as I came here from "The Last Pharaoh", which was Really Good! 🤷‍♀️

2:3 resonance?

We'd probably die of each other's diseases before we examine each other.

If any moderately intelligent being finds us and analyzes us, we're screwed. One look at our planet tells them everything they need to know

nuclear rocket

Not a bad idea friend, not a bad idea at all.

Somebody squirted gas x in the air or something cause the clouds to clear up a bit

All telescopes will be displaced by our low cost [$5MM], compact telescope with a broad field magnification from 10X to continent resolution/discernability at 100 light year distance. Similar performance on the obverse side with table top sized microscopes where even the interior of the nucleus will be viewable. Path to atomic scale electronics manufacturing with real time defect removal for perfect outcomes each and every time. I think I'll call it the Tiny Wonder Scope

Optimism is fine, as long as you don't rely on it!

So will everyone watching this video. Sorry any meaningful exploration of this star system is probably one hundred and fifty to two hundred years away and that's if we don't kill ourselves off.

And maybe in the afterlife we can see any place in the universe. Idk, just a thought

@@johnnyfire3860 There is no reason to believe in any afterlife.

@Sloppy Potato Do you have any evidence for an afterlife, or are you just repeating what you were told as a kid?

@Sloppy Potato Watching yourself decompose would still be an afterlife, just not an interesting one. All evidence points to you just cease to exist. Why do you think otherwise?

@@bferfolja No, not really. Ever heard of Alcubierre drive? There are current projects that are researching such super advanced propulsion systems. Thing is, it is all theoretically possible, breaking no laws of physics, engineering part is the problem. When our tech gets advanced enough, things are gonna look a lot different.

@@bferfolja Beliefs and Theories are not the same. Otherwise flat earth's would be right saying science is a religion :/

@@bferfolja It is proven to be true. Have you used GPS before? A theory is not the same as a hypothesis. A theory is used to explain things that we have observed or predicted, and it has to work every single time. If it doesn't, then it is no longer a theory, but an approximation. The definition if theory is "a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained."

@@bferfolja You have a big problem. Theory has nothing to do with belief and assumptions, that's what a hypothesis is. Theory in science is not nearly the same thing as the word theory in everyday use, which is constantly misused. Learn the damn difference. Theory, hypothesis, fact, law. There's a theory of gravity, theory of relativity, etc. All solidly proven stuff. Scientific theory explains precisely how a natural phenomenon works and all data that we have about it agrees with it, and theory also has predictive power, it can predict what should exist or happen, then time passes and we find exactly that. Einstein's relativity predicted gravitational waves, and 100 years later we detected them when we had sensitive enough equipment to do it. Gravitational lensing, another example. Einstein's relativity got confirmed more over and over again as time passed, we discovered things that his theory predicted a century ago. Hypothesis is an assumption that gets proven or disproven. GPS wouldn't work properly if satellites don't have Einstein's relativity equations in their software. Time ticks slightly differently for them. Without the compensation, error of gps would be up to 9 km.

@@bferfolja Google exists for a reason, know how to use it?

It was

Climate change isn't "killing the planet", it's just making it less hospitable for us and many other forms of life. That also doesn't real have any correlation with space travel.

@@ProfessorDaveExplains I stand corrected. It is killing the biosphere. Check out oceanographer Jim Massa, ice scientists Jason Box, Peter Wadhams, and Natalia Shakhova, climatologist Paul Beckwith, ecologist Guy McPherson, Dr. Peter Carter (IPCC reviewer) or James G. Anderson (atmospheric chemist who discovered ozone layer depletion) to see what they think the prospects are for life on this planet continuing. We aren't going to Alpha Centauri. I really wish we were. Astronomy has been my hobby for 40 years. Humanity has screwed around too long and the technology to save us has not yet been developed. Help give these people a voice.

I agree . he says it doesn’t have any correlation to space travel like the resources used for space traveling technology doesn’t contribute to furthering destruction of our planet , and the mind state that we should prioritize using time and resources to engineer space travel before we use it to clean our own planet is something very confusing 🤔

Can't think of a time when pessimism got us anywhere closer to our goal.

@@Fipsh Realism is not pessimism.

Brown drawfs are really difficult to detect.

You can check the latest scientific developments in exoplanets here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RODr30duRrg.html

@@manabouttongue I agree, difficult to detect, nevertheless two brown dwarfs are included in the 20 closest stars to Earth, each at about 7 light years distant. There may yet be found another brown dwarf or red dwarf closer than Beta Centauri which lies 4.2 LY distant.

@@mejdalsari2296 Thank you.

John Tash interesting, I wonder how close a planet has to be to a brown dwarf to heat it up enough.

In order to do that, we would have to discover how to contain vast quantities of antimatter and then how to utilize this as an energy source...at least if you believe Star Trek. I live in hope that it is :)

Me

@Franklin Franklinson assuming someone doesn't hijack and delete RU-vid

Daniel Phil that would be a sad future

first!

Mon Ster no

not true! Earth isn’t even fully explored. We only know like 70% of it. The deep oceans are as mysterious as the universe itself

@@retrodull8796 If somebody mentions "exploring the earth" it definitely means exploring new lands, new continents, new human races and the traditions and rituals they have, so exploring the earth is exploring not the water, but the land because that's where all humans lived and evolved. Exploring oceans plays a role yeah, but it's nothing compared to exploring LAND.

@@retrodull8796 There is no frontier left on Earth. And as far as the ocean, there are basically just species to discover in the ocean. The entire ocean floor has been mapped.

@@KarltonFranz I swear I’ve heard only 5% of the floor is mapped

@@KarltonFranz bruh just one search in google will show you that only about 15% has been mapped. Even if it was all mapped, we will never know what the fuck

never gonna happen space travel is impossible for humans

@@pastoryoda2789 I can agree that we Cannot aquire the speed of light, but of what basis you're saying that space travel is impossible for humans? Can you explain?

@@kuntalpatra648 it’s impossible because there is no way to travel light years & there will never be a way

@@pastoryoda2789 haha how can you relate space travel to travel in light years only?. Space travel can be under a light year. There is no necessity that travel in space can only be in light years. it can be a distance from earth to moon or be a distance in light years. There's no certain boundaries.

Nothing can go faster than the speed of light that is basic physics

Quite so. And we must not allow the Klingons nor the Romulans to reach Mars before us Earthlings.

I’ll stick with living on TRAPPIST-1

Where's dat@@squidpile

It is possible with reincarnation

They probably are all dead from sun flares

Yes & it was supose to have been in 1997. And I seen old scify movies that had us landing Man on Mars in 1984.

@@mydogbrian4814 Yes, they were a bit too optimistic with their forecasts back then.

But they had doc Smith helping them

This system brings the Barney n Betty Hill case to mind

@@infinidominion That was about aliens from the "Zeta Ritiguli" binary star system 40 light years from earth. - As inferred from the star chart that Betty drew under hypnosis as shown to her by the humaniod captain inside the ship on an illuminated wall screen map, which had linens of various thicknes connecting neighboring stars, which the alien said depicted the amount of travel between them. The line connecting the two binaries was very wide, she recalled, while the one with our sun was only dotted. - But it was showing from the Zeta Ritiguli perspective in the center. So a super computer was used to make a 3-d map that finally fit Betty's sketch. And finally deduced their origin to that binary. - Because of the close proximity of the two binaries. It was concluded that because the two stars are only 3 light weeks apart in distance and other stars within a light year, that it would have spurred astronomy in the correct path & interest in possible interstellar travel a lot quicker than possible here on earth. Since our nearest stellar neighbors are 75 times further away. & others are double that distance (excluding Binard). - A lot of debunking of the Hill's alleged UFO encounter have been passed in the years that followed because of the inconsistencies in their claims. - But you have to remember that theirs was the first. It was original. And beside the missing time, they didnt know it until 6 months after the abduction under repressed memory hypnosis. When repeated nightmare's & sleepless nights finally drove them to seek therapy. - The medical examination by the aliens was a horrific experance involving sexual intrusions which was a great social taboo back in 1960 and so difficult to talk about to strangers. But they reluctantly, did!

Ohhh i didnt think of that at first

yeah but at least Alpha Centauri is in "a galaxy closer than you think" (i.e. OUR galaxy) not "a galaxy far, far away"

No life there

@@andrewmurray1550 -- Oh, it's pretty far far away, dude. None of us are gonna see it in our lifetime - even if they launched TODAY.

But proxima centauri b is like as far away from them as Uranus is from me

It's just sort of blanket optimism. But it's fairly genuine. We've gotten through so much as a species, why not make it other worlds?

Oh hey I remember that show lmao

Plans are for responsible folks and I ain't that responsible but I could stand some space stuff I rekon. Relaxes me

Trappist 1 is amazing too

Sad thing is it took way too long to get there ...I feel like where we’re at now we should of been at in at the 1800’s

@@conormayweather5474 yeah thats true but people in this world are worried about politics and other stuff that is irrelevant like killing people and just disasters cause by humans that would've never happened if we just worked together. If world wars were to never happen and we worked together who knows how far we would've came. I mean just so much bad stuff that happened stunned the growth of interstellar travel or just basic space travel.

@@yoursubconscious1774 you make a good point

If the Alcubbiere Drive has been made. We can finally have Star Trek tech.

Speed of light too slow

@@seven5677 Im sure we have, remember, United States Space Force........(You dont think theyre just out there handing out parking tickets or looking to "boot" E.T.'s daily driver, do you???

@@pump_6669 I don't remember making this comment at all.

What about time dialation? The faster you go, time moves for you exponentially slower, meaning that very close to the speed of light you could travel extremely far, even at the galactic scale.

I wonder why this phenomenon occured almost few weeks after the US govt. confirmed that the Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial flying objects on numerous occasions. I think this decade would reveal many secrets that have been hidden from the common man. I hope the secrets turn out to be reassuring.

So you're basically saying, flat earth exists or is a tangible occurrence?