NASA discovers an Earthlike planet! Elon Musk wants to go there, but how?

A new discovery has been made at Proxima Centauri! Elon Musk is talking about going there! But how do you traverse interstellar distances using today's technology? And what, exactly, have we learned about this nearby planet?
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Navigating to a destination through interstellar space would have to be incredibly complex, as much as traversing that distance itself. I would like to see you make a video on that topic, since I haven't seen any other videos made about it. Thank you for making very informative content!

[MichaelDeeringMHC]

They are looking at us, thinking that there is no way life could arise on a planet rotated everyday. They know that life requires a planet to be tidally locked.

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[Flatballflyer]

Another fascinating take on interstellar travel! The thing that I don't here anyone talking about is the incredible value found in Ceres which appears to have large H2O reserves near the surface and a gravity well shallow enough to be considered more of a gravity wading pool. Water, both as a human resource and as a fuel, that has that low of a "cost to ?orbit?" means we should be spending more time figuring out how utilize that resource. It would be cool to just crash it into Mars as a type of high-impact terraforming, but I'll stick with things we can do with today's technology. We could harvest ice, launch it with simple magnetic accelerators, and fuel a ship that used existing nuclear fusion technology to vaporize and accelerate water as the fuel. With fuel at that low of a cost, we can start to entertain vehicles with enough inner capacity to support human life for years at a go.

[dang]

The planet in the graphic for Proxima was rotating. Though you factually stated it’s tidally locked. Hehe. Great content AA! Love the lucid feeling and awesome cg.

Edit: camera rotating around the planet got it 😉