>nothing can go faster than light>humans cannot even go 1% the speed of light>the nearest solar system is 4 light years away>it is a four-year flight to the nearest solar system, if you go 100% the speed of light>people still think we will one day colonize other planets outside the solar systemUhhh, what the fuck. Lol.
There are credible proposals for reaching speeds 5%-20% the speed of light which is enough to feasibly colonize other systems.
They would have to be ready to leave there at any time as well for asteroid impacts.
>>16946475It's clear that space is mostly hostile to human life and no other planet supports Earth-based life. This is why I believe if humans were to expand to other worlds they would either build O’Neill Cylinders, consciously send themselves into some sort of Super Immersive Virtual Reality, or some extreme genetically modified humans take over homo sapiens.
>>16946475There's a proposal that's been pitched a few times at Marshall about a relativistic deep space probe that would do a slingshot around the Sun. Conservative estimates are that they could get a probe up to about 2-3% of c. Which isn't bad for just gravity and thrust. Getting up to 20% or more is completely feasible within the next century, at which point getting to the nearest star is only a 22 year trip. You're still gonna need generational transports, but it's completely feasible that we could expand to colonize other star systems...... it's just that unless we find some workable loophole around relativity we won't be having any kind of meaningful communication or trade or interstellar political relationship.
>>16946475Robots will though.
>>16946475>>nothing can go faster than lightsource?
>>16946475I think people are just blindly optimistic about technology advancement. Because it has advanced in the past so people assume it will get better. Which is fair to assume but also incorrect.There’s also storytelling and narrative that has been going on for thousands of years. Like when they say we will colonize other planets. It’s just an ambitious goal that we strive for. Because we humans crave exploration and adventure. But the reality is we are probably going nowhere but staying on earth because space.. cannot support life and the high energy waves and forces that shoot across space would likely destroy dna and cellular chemistry.There’s limits to what we can do we aren’t god.
>>16946475We have the tech to reach 1% now, but not the money or the will. That's 400 years one way. It's a bit much. If enough money were poured jnto research we could get to 5%. That's 80 years. It's manageable. The second generation would reach Alpha Centauri in their 60s. The third will be 40s and younger. We can expand across the galaxy with thoae numbers asing as the nearest star to your departure point is one lifetime away.tl;dr: we can, but we won't, because jews want to fuck kids instead of colonizing the universe.
