Interstellar Travel Is Possible!

Have we just found a way to travel to other Stars? Let's find out!

#SpaceX #starship #elonmusk #starbase

Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Eryk Gawron, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
LIVE Production: Astro Roadie
Host: Felix Schlang
Production: Stefanie & Felix Schlang
Graphics & Media Processing: Jonathan Heuer, Felix Schlang

Credit:

⭐SpaceX
⭐NASA
⭐VirtualSpace_3D on X: @Lolomatico3d
⭐The Ring Watchers on X: @RingWatchers

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[shinytentacles]

At this point we're the alien stalking another planet

[vincentrusso]

I thought the sun was our closest star.. damn Good Enough Diploma...

[dlbiggins]

10g probe slams into only "nearby" inhabited planet at 20% of light speed...

Slow Interstellar war starts.

3 centuries later, peace breaks out... "WTF did you guys do that for?!?"

[aaronsouthard]

Under a few grams while still being able to:

- maneuver for imaging and other sensors to get info about target.

- power source

- antenna with enough power to beam data back here

- computing and storage

-oh, and power

Not happening

[MarkARoutt]

If i get to see quality pictures of another star in my lifetime i will be really happy.

[d.rodrickeamon]

In the science fiction Universe, this is very old tech. " Russell Saunders' “Clipper Ships of Space, ” appeared in 1951, the first SF short stories and novellas featuring light sails of which I am aware..."

Solar sails are 73 years' old.

[The_Second_greatest_ever]

I watched a documentary that had talked about light propulsion when I was a kid. At the time the used pulses of high intensity light but could only reach tens of feet in altitude. I told my dad about it and he gave me a hard time for years saying I was crazy and was confused or tricked. Guess the jokes on him now.

[robrussell]

By my math, Proxima Centauri is only 1, 672 times the distance Voyager has travelled. Voyage is 22 light hours from Earth. 22 x 1, 672 = 36, 784 light hours. That is equal to 4.2 light years - the distance to Proxima Centauri.

[NoThisIsNotMe.]

"Closest start." Clever wording.

[scoutgabriel]

I can only imagine humans and aliens saying "HELP, AN ALIEN!" When they see each other

[Pneumonoulrta]

Here is how it’s made:

Materials:
-galvanized square steel
-eco friendly wood veneers
-bolts burrowed from your aunt

How it is made:
Make a solid frame out of the galvanized square steel, secure the steel with the bolts burrowed from your aunt. At last you cover the galvanized square steel frame with the eco friendly wood veneers.

Congratulations you have made it 🥳

[Azazel-nl]

When i was about 11 years of age i told my friends that the sun is also a star
They don't believe it

[AdAstra_McGill]

“Proxima Centauri…is over 6 million times the distance Voyager 1 has flown.” Incorrect. The distance to Proxima Centauri is 268, 770 AU, where an AU is the distance from the earth to the sun. Voyager 1 has travelled 163 AU. So, Proxima is 1650 times further than the distance Voyager 1 has traveled.

[DanishAhsanNajhan-mw]

I think we use the small & high efficiency camera, paper/aluminium foil for the base and some microphe + some message like Voyager 1 & 2

[Motormike]

They have been figured out how to make it to other planets. We go through wormholes and black holes. We also have flying saucers and spaceships that can go.

[mufasachainbreaker]

Laser will need to be space based, still they are really on to something

[erictrott]

"3 Body Problem" already figured it out.

[BigRalphSmith]

No. We didn't "just find" this.
Solar sailing is a concept with a long history, dating all the way back to an idea Johannes Kepler shared with his friend Galileo Galilei in 1608.

[law]

Imagine a world where we end up traveling the cosmos in the same way we originally traveled the oceans to far away lands.

[MAI-MOAl]

Aerogel is very very light, it could be difficult to get a lot and make it fit correctly, but it’s ver very very light