The Closest Planet Outside Our Solar System Is Almost Within Reach | Proxima Centauri 

You don't even know for sure what's there. Would be cool to have another Earth right next door though.

have you considered the possibility of some life forms evolving to absorb radiation as food? like plants with sunlight?

@AstrumSpace, No thanks, I would rather see you answer some of these comments.

​@@NeostormXLMAX Don't hold your breath waiting on an answer.

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Yes. And ten years earlier, there was a starship planned, SS Orion, which would already have returned a decade ago. The planned crew of 200 would have been reduced to 20, though., because of the amount of supplies. That is already a critically small crew, for a 45 year mission. Also, in the 1970s, politics would never have allowed women in such a mission! Better they had just build the ship and put the whole congress inside.

I hold the opinion that we will conquer trans lumen speeds to reach there in weeks rather than centuries as soon as we shake off the myopic version of gravity which leaves our finest engineering minds fighting gravity rather than manipulating it. Our problem is circular in that we are not researching what we deem impossible.

@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx If politicians would be sent on a long journey on a starship, they would perhaps start fighting and placing borders insode the ship. "Due to not flushing, the minister of the cantina is not allowed to enter the restrooms" - president of the toilets. "We, the liquid nation of the water filtration room declare independence from the people's republic of the reactor control centre."

@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx It would be nice also if could they fit the UK parliament as well in to this trip to nowhere as the people there serve no purpose that anyone can see?

Yes - and that the graphic used at 0:14 is totally off scale and misleading. This is the first time, i have to complain about something on Astrum, but since it's very relevant to the topic of the video, i feel i need to point it out.

Very, very half full….😂😂😂😂

Who cares!

😂those are 40 billion kilometers

Fun part is, by the time they arrive, 29k years from now, it will be only 3ly🤗

more like bisolarians they are lucky not to have 3 stars

@NeostormXLMAX, didn't you watch the video? Of course its three stars.

​@@NeostormXLMAXsomeone hasn't been paying attention

“I will take over the entire Tri-Solar Area!”

Where we're going, we don't need roads. - Doc Brown

I’ll ride my motorcycle there!

@@user-rv8gn5qf3o I’ve almost got that many miles on my pickup truck.

Going at ¼ of the light speed we could be there in just only a dozen of years!

@@user-rv8gn5qf3o my shadow could get there in maybeeeeee 500,000 years

Unless you warp space in front of you.

Not if you have shields at full power 😉

​@@skibum6220no shield will ever stop anything even a grain of sand near the speed of light

space isn't empty, no, but it is absurdly vast. So much so that the chances of hitting anything more than dust is exceptionally unlikely. That said most ships will need shielding from both radiation and dust essentially wearing down the ship in mid flight, like a shuttle burns up in re-entry, except much much slower. This can be done by storing your water in the front of the ship to absorb radiation and by adding physical armour to the front of the ship for the dust. Its already been calculated by several papers and made for interesting reading

@@jamiemobilerepairnow5968 at sub light speed even dust hit like tons of atomic bomb no physical shield will be able to withstand such energy concentrated in a small point

I was thinking the same and trying to work out the math. Incredibly long time with current tech.

I'm just going to have to take your word for the math, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out, we ain't gonna make it! You can beam me up now Scotty... Scotty? Dang...😣

40,000 years to reach an 'Earth-like' planet. I think the only earth-likeness is that it is around the same size. Flairs don't do anything for its hospitability.

4000 years at the speed of the Parker solar probe (ofc if it manages to maintain the high speed)

Any such travel would do better at constant acceleration (like 1g) than constant speed. So it'd have to wait until we have a means to do that, presumably using some sort of fuel from the interstellar space, perhaps hydrogen for fusion. So, not this week, but, extrapolating the technology and wealth gains of the last millennium, maybe this millennium.

That's true. Counterpoint, it was less than 120 years between the first time we flew a machine on Earth and the first time we flew a machine on Mars. Technological development tends to accelerate.

@@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj But Mars is reachable. Would Columbus have ever set sail if he knew that the journey would take him five thousand years and he would have to bring women along to raise generations of offspring who will continue the journey?

@@larky368 There is a principle, whose name I unfortunately can not remember, that if it takes an arbitrary amount of time to reach your destination, you should wait since technology will improve while you are travelling to the point that those who waited will either arrive at the same time or pass you enroute. I think that the current time threshold is 50 years. Even if it were much higher, the safe bet is for us to wait for improved technology before risking human life. Generation ships are almost by definition a "hail Mary play". Especially since we're almost certain that the planet waiting at Proxima Centauri will be less hospitable than Venus.

@@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj that was an exception. What has really changed in flight in the past 30 years for example? We passed the "exponential" part of the curve scores of years ago. For a long time now we've been stagnating in "more of the same", so it's a bad example.

​@@anonydun82fgoog35 not really. Since 1960 many new concepts in space travel field appeared.

I think about this a lot. Even though I lack faith in the supernatural, and the historical accuracy of the texts, the idea that people and their ideas and visions from thousands of years ago shape our world, tells us about our own possibilities and nature.

Or we could be the next dinosaur bones on display in a museum for whatever life evolves after humanity dead ends...

maybe if in the meantime we dont obliterate ourselves.

In a few centuries our descendants might look back on us the same way we see the age of discovery in the 1500s or 1600s when new continents and islands were discovered (Antarctica was only discovered in 1820). When humans have already settled on the moon, Mars, Ganymed, Callisto, Titan, maybe other objects and maybe already sending people to Alpha Centauri (if we manage to achieve 10 % the speed of light it would take like 45 years, so achievable within a human lifetime), they will look back at the pioneers of the 20th and 21th century who did the research and initial technological development necessary for this. Maybe the Apollo landing sites or the Mars rover landing sites will be declared cultural heritage and will become like tourist attractions for moon/mars inhabitants to visit.

In a few centuries our descendants might look back on us the same way we see the age of discovery in the 1500s or 1600s when new continents and islands were discovered (Antarctica was only discovered in 1820). When humans have already settled on the moon, Mars, Ganymed, Callisto, Titan, maybe other objects and maybe already sending people to Alpha Centauri (if we manage to achieve 10 % the speed of light it would take like 45 years, so achievable within a human lifetime), they will look back at the pioneers of the 20th and 21th century who did the research and initial technological development necessary for this. Maybe the Apollo landing sites or the Mars rover landing sites will be declared cultural heritage and will become like tourist attractions for moon/mars inhabitants to visit.

Thanks for explaining this, I also was wondering how a signal could be accurately aimed back to Earth

People also don't often realize either what it would take to even get a fast ship up to speed and slowed back down again. Even if theoretically we could travel at 50% light speed (which is way far off if even possible) it wouldn't simply just take 8 years to travel 4 light years in distance, it would take nearly double that time as even a very advanced ship would take time to reach top speed and slow back down. Not to mention even if a vessel could instantly hit speed then stop on a dime, every occupant of that ship would be torn apart by the g forces.

@@digitalfootballer9032 > People also don't often realize either what it would take to even get a fast ship up to speed I think most people realize that - at least most people who think about interstellar travel do. > and slowed back down again This one definitely not. People tend to think in terms of cars - gas to speed up, brakes to slow down. It's all too easy to forget there's no friction in space and you need to hit the "gas" approximately the same amount in both directions (less on the slowing down side as you don't need to account for the fuel you burned speeding up, but within ballpark of the same). Don't forget though that we've already done all that when we put landers on mars (and to a lesser extent the moon). I wouldn't expect the average uninterested layperson to understand, but at this point most people who have an interest in rocketry knows that you need to increase and decrease speed in a vacuum. They might not realize how much of that is done via gravity assists within our solar system, but they probably have a vague idea. The data transmission problem though is much less known. We all know that the further you go, the longer it takes. Most people understand that a signal sent from 4ly away would take 4 years to arrive. The beam divergence and power loss are things people don't really think about because they're "mostly" not a problem within the solar system - the distances are short enough and the DSN sensitive enough that as long as a beam is directed in the direction of Earth it'll generally be picked up. The only real troublesome ones are the voyagers due to the fact that they're so far beyond their design specs (as in literal distance) that the beam divergence is a concern, yet they still manage to get signals back to us (New Horizons has the same problem of course, but it was designed with the expectation that it might be going to the edge of the solar system, and has an extra three decades of transmitter tech upgrades to boot, so its signals are not as difficult to pick up... yet). Basically, we've never really had to think about it too much so people don't. We'd have to start thinking about it a lot more when we're going to an entirely new star (of course "we" is overly inclusive - people who are serious about the tech rather than the "possibilities" are well aware of these issues and they'd absolutely be getting involved long before such a mission becomes a reality). > every occupant of that ship would be torn apart by the g forces This one we luckily don't have to worry about for a good long while yet. We're not going to be sending occupants on an interstellar mission for a long, long time. We're still trying to figure out how to just send probes (of course when we're talking about a velocity jump of 0.5c, the probes would be just as squishy as people - then again so would the ship itself!)

push some wifi extenders out the back every once in a while

I think the idea of the swarm is they would act as a relay. You don't have to beam the signal back to Earth. Just to the next closest probe.

ngl as a german im somehow questioning why nearly the mayority of scientific stuff and inventions comes from us.. its like we as german are "special"

@@semiramisubw4864pls don’t start another world war

@@semiramisubw4864 Keep up the good work!

Thanks. I don’t need to watch the video now but I will.

@@matthewboire6843 This guy is usually just waffling nonsense on top of old space footage. So I did not.

​@@captain_context9991Yes. Its commentary on space footage. Why are you whining about it?

@@OzymandiasWasRight Because its a whole lot of nothing.

​@@captain_context9991You commented on the video before watching it, didn't watch it, and are now engaging in a dialect about the spamminess of RU-vid (gotta get that 1 upload for Friday;) Fascinating... You might say, you're being a real Polaris 😂😅 Anyone else looking forward to Beetlejuice Betelgeuse? (Shhhh... Say it three times and it goes supernova)

Hope not 😂

Idk maybe

You are bugs.

Hahaha

The Sophons are watching

Ohh yes, I sleep with these videos playing in background almost every night. Also, videos by channel "History of universe".

@@apurvabhatnagar2772 awesome stuff 🙌

Me too about this channel, Entire history of the universe and also Sea is great for drifting off in wonder to 💫

Humans have done great things I'm sure we'll find a way to

An astronaut could get really close to the galactic center

Forget about AlphaCentauri. There is too little known of interstellar navigation. We can't even fly to the moon any more. And there we only need to know the exact landing spot 3 days in advance. How will we know exactly where the next star is in ~20000 years!?!

CREAMITORIUM

I wonder if the aliens on that world would sleep in a way we'd recognise 🤔

it quite is tho. We can even today already build generational ships. Which tbh we can overtake in that time before it even reaches it destination. Its such a thought that is the reason why we humans are probably very special. We question anything and try to solve it aswell.

It's might soon be with improvements in technology and our understanding in physics

We will need to travel maybe 1/10th the speed of light for it to be remotely possible. Ie. 30,000 km a second

We might not even make Mars before we destroy ourselves. Anything beyond that is pure fantasy.

I don't understand how people are using voyager as a benchmark. It wasn't built to do it nor is it remotely close to anything we can do now. Like bro it still uses plated wire memory.

@@stephenschroeder6567let’s face it, America brings their guard down and focuses on science only, what do you think will happen to the United States?

​@@mryellow6918 porque hasta la fecha la voyager es la nave fabricada por el ser humano que viaja mas rápido por el espacio, por eso.

Astrum is great, so is Anton (I really like the daily uploads, that man is a beast). Also Check out 'History of the Universe' and 'SEA' if you like decent, accurate and non AI-Generated Space content, same level as Astrum. :)

@@tydewalt5425 Thnx for the suggestion.

You should check out Science Clic (english)

Wow, thank you

Dude, mars is less than two year from earth. You think in a couple of century we can break every law of nature and causality and travel twice the speed of light?

​@@stefanogandino9192we might or we might not. But even accelerating at a fraction of the speed of light would be interesting

Touché brother!!

​@@stefanogandino9192 Going by the rate at which science has developed in the last cantury, it's not beyond the realm of possibility. If you travel back 100 years and tell people about today's technology, they'd not believe you. Science is advancing at an exponential rate, and with time the rate of growth will only get faster with newer technology aiding us in our exploration &' understanding. We already have AI and nano tech and they're only in their infancy.

​@@stefanogandino9192 Well not travel light speed, but warping space time maybe possible. Humans have alrdy theorized efficient ways to warp.

Three body problem. Planetary orbits unlikely to be stable.

It might be that we haven't found exoplanets orbiting the two main stars, but only around Proxima. Thus, the interest.

if I ever get this comment on one of my videos, I will actually cringe 😭

When I feel like that I remember that we're actually amazingly lucky and special being alive at all, every single one of us is a unique work of art 💖

I agree, however in this context that is truly a small distance.

I disagree, with advancements in technology one day we could potentially travel 4 light years in just a few dozen years

Maybe they have already and found earth part 2. Who knows ! Certainly these matters are confidential top secret. Cannot make public else war will break, people and nations will go crazy - 4 light years is a long distance - nevertheless ppl will go crazy if earth part 2 is revealed

James Webb was more made to look at galaxies far far away because of the infrared spectrum it observes. Basically it's designed more to discover the evolution of the universe, also its time is very limited and in demand for what to look at.

That doesn’t mean it can’t detect artificial light, N2, O2, Ar, & CO2.. evidence of possible life. JWST is more than capable of detecting these elements in an atmosphere as it has already done so with a distant gas giant in another solar system. Try and keep up with current events ok 👌.

I recently noticed this too, it gets pretty annoying to be honest. Lots of information is not built on, and because of that doesn't mean anything to me

@@ethan3056 You are right. His work is slowly going to seeds. If he does not stop and reverse it, I will unscribe and won't check the postings any more. He used to be so wonderful and informative.

No you didn't, i own the only Ecliptic Claymore, and it's parked in my garage...wait...

Perhaps together with Jeffrey Epstain?

If what he said was true and the microchip can travel at more than 10% the speed of light it will take less than 40 years for it to reach there which seems to be well within my lifetime atleast.. hope I get to see it

Don’t be hasty to discount our chances. A 200 years ago it was through that flight was utterly impossible. Yet here we are, millions of flights a year. A hundred years ago, it would have been unthinkable that we would land on the moon, and 70 years later we did just that. Einstein thought the atom was beyond humanity’s ability to utilise, yet here we are. The future is uncertain. We could discover new ways of travel, ones we haven’t even conceived of yet.

@@ValouroverFear That would require pretty much everything we know about physics in general and relativity in specific to be spectacularly wrong... I like hope as much as the next person, but most discussion about this stuff seems to start with the idea that we want this to be true and then works to find ways it could be, rather than just looking at the physics and making a call.

@@ValouroverFear Except we're talking about needing to increase speeds by orders of magnitude to reach it and that's only at very, very high speeds for a "reasonable" amount of time. Start doing the math to see. At 1 million mph, at 10 million mph, at 25 million, etc. And remember, speed of light is 670 million mph. So just to go 1 percent of light speed you need to go 6.7 million mph. We're not even at 500,000 mph. At 10 percent of light speed it would take you 40+ years to reach it. But we're not doing that any time soon. It's not a question of being able to fly or sending a probe, it's a question of speed, time and distance. That's entirely a different thing to conquer considering what we can do today after so long. Voyager 1 is heading out at 38,000mph for 47 years now. Have we come close to doubling, tripling, quadrupling, etc. that speed after 47 years? And yea I know about the Parker solar probe. That isn't the same thing as sending a probe out into interstellar space.

Agreed........ The problem that is always thrown out there is the fact that no aliens have ever reached Earth. Considering that we are further away from the Alpha Centauri system than a lot of its neighbouring stars, we must accept that any potential for alien exploration would begin closer to those stars.

Ahhhhhh so many "facts" people ignorantly said would never happen in the future... How many people 400 years ago would believe we would have the world's biggest library in the palm of our hands?

@@tankeater Orders upon orders of magnitude more difficult and inhospitable than any form of travel ever done on Earth or near Earth orbit. Don't kid yourself.

@@EdwardHinton-qs4ry but am I correct? If it wasn't for the suppression of Dark Matter, we as humans would be much more advanced then you could even perceive... A simple Butterfly Effect, wouldn't have made my claim seam so outlandish to you. Science and your pessimistic thinking don't mix. 👍

@@EdwardHinton-qs4ry that's the same thing they said crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the Europeans and what the Asians said about crossing the Pacific Ocean... You're mindset and science, don't mix. 🤦‍♂️👍

Yeah, it's all pipe dreams... Scientists insisting it'll be possible to do a fly-by, but really it's to keep their funding, so they can continue to make house payments. .. Pipe dreams...

Stop comparing things with the voyager it launched in the 70s. When that launch to now is the same difference as the first plane and jet fighters. That's the difference from going 30 mph and 1200 mph

Im confident with todays tech we’ve cut that time in half

An understandable rant but too many people are locked in their ways, thus preventing (or at least severely limiting) overall maturing of the species... I'm not even sure that a planet-wide alien invasion would necessarily change our ways and force us to work as a team. Even if the planet ended up mostly destroyed, the few remaining resources and habitable places would still create tension amongst survivors, because scarcity of ressources causes humans to become aggressive, with reason barely having any impact... History would just repeat itself... Learn from History, you say? History would just remind you that, ultimately, life tries to survive any way it can. If it fails, it dies; if it doesn't, it survives some more... For the particularly stubborn humans, I doubt there would be nice ways of getting them to adjust--if at all... But if you did keep everyone alive, all manner of existing processes and ways of life would require extensive changes, something which many people would hate. And then there's trust, which people have issues with--especially when it comes to governments trying, or wanting, to work together... Actually, it's bad enough trying to trust your neighbours and work colleagues, let alone entire populations in other countries that have vastly different cultures... On top of all that, because humans have spent thousands of years relying solely on primitive technology to get by and living in isolated groups, there's nothing to convince them that joining forces would be better... If you listen to the far-right rhetoric, it'll claim that joining forces is in fact a "bad" idea... And as for the curiosity about the world and universe, it only goes so far--some telescopes are quite sufficient as most people barely like flying, let alone stepping into a rocket and then venturing across space... So, for the humans who do want to travel to the stars, they should do so. (Go SpaceX!) The rest of them will just hang around on Earth, with some remaining totally oblivious that others ever left... It might even turn into a funny scenario: "What? There are humans on Mars? When did this happen?" / "Well, about 200 years ago but your ancestors never cared. No, actually, they said it wasn't necessary..."

Your imaginary friend is entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand

Great comment, we have to keep in mind that this “space porn” is for the lowest common denominator. If you are someone with a Bach or higher you may be in the shallow end of the pool. Wink

You know what angrifies up my blood? If it wasnt for the Church banning science for 300 years. Most of us would be out there somewhere right now, living the dream.

LOL!

@@upupuptheziggurat.liketysplit That didn't have much to do with the Church, if we English hadn't been so intent on waging war all around the world, we probably could have invented industrialisation about 400 years earlier, but even busy little worker bees need a break now and then. :)

​@@upupuptheziggurat.liketysplit Isn't it funny how things that have nothing to do with the Church are blamed on the Church? People just WANT to be anti-theists at this point.

@@TheSpacePlaceYT I highly suggest you look up what the Medieval dark ages in Europe did for Science then. Hard verified fact.

Really? At what speed? Because at the speeds we are capable of now, it's pointless. Do you even know how far a light year is? Do you even know what speeds we are capable of right now? Do the math and then rethink your suggestion.

Unfortunatly it would take almost 40.000 years considering the speed of a spacecraft like voyager 1 (30ish km/h), so it's not possible

​@@sirsiver I thought Voyager was travelling 30hm/second not per hour? Lol 30km per hour is preeeety slow 😁