A 100 Year Journey To Proxima Centauri B

1. Welcome to the journey of a lifetime, as we embark on an interstellar voyage to a world beyond our imagination - Proxima Centauri b. This remarkable exoplanet, located approximately 4.24 light years away, orbits a star known as Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor.
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2. The Genesis of the Mission
As we set our sights on the distant shores of Proxima Centauri b, we must first reflect on the monumental scientific leaps that have made this journey possible.
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3. The Generation Ship
The launch of the generational spaceship, the culmination of decades of scientific endeavor and technological advancement, is a moment of unparalleled significance.
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4. Life Aboard the Ship
As the generational spaceship hurtles through the cosmos, a microcosm of human civilization thrives within its rotating cylinders. Life aboard the ship is a testament to adaptability,
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5. The Time Dilation Effect
Humans on the spaceship are certainly aware of the importance of keeping in touch with the Earth.
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6. Reproduction
Setting physics aside now, a question of profound significance arises: How will the generations to come be born and raised within the confines of our generational spaceship?
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7. Technological Milestones
During the trip to Proxima Centauri, scientists will keep doing experiments, and new technologies will be tested and developed. These will certainly shape the crew’s future.
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8. Approaching Proxima Centauri b
As the generational spaceship nears its destination, about 50 years before landing, the crew is treated to a breathtaking celestial display: the approach to Proxima Centauri, our new cosmic neighbor. .
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9. Arrival and New Beginnings
As the crew of the generational spaceship takes their first steps onto the surface of Proxima Centauri b, they find themselves in a landscape both alien and intriguing.

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DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA

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00:00 1. Intro
1:18 2. The Genesis of the Mission
4:20 3. The Generation Ship
6:52 4. Life Aboard the Ship
10:51 5. The Time Dilation Effect
13:14 6. Reproduction
15.01 7. Technological Milestones
16:18 8. Approaching Proxima Centauri b
20:40 9.Arrival and New Beginnings
10. Conclusion

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[Rocky-xxzg]

Will the ship have 'Prision Cells? They will be needed, big time!! JMO

[Eric-Lund]

You go on-and-on about relativistic effects - but at 4% of light speed, it's so minimal as to be ignorable. Tau is .9998 - so 1 second on Earth is .9998 seconds aboard the ship. Or 2hr46mn40sec on Earth = 2hr46mn38sec on the ship.
Tau = SQRT(1-(V^2/C^2))

[chrism]

11:42 Great video but one little comment, at 4.24% speed of light, time dilation is not enough for people to feel like hours or days passes on the ship and years on earth, not even close. In fact in the entire 100 year journey from beginning to end the difference is about 1 month. What will go on is as the ship gets further and further from earth, time will take longer and longer to communicate with the ship and back to earth. At 1 light year from earth, about 23 years in the journey it will take 2 years to send a signal and receive it back.

[raulferri]

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[jameswilson]

5 minutes into this was all I could take. No generational ship will take off from Earth.

[patp]

I always check these kind a documentaries to get sleep 😴

[ohhwoodnyalikenoe]

What about the moral implications about this. Sure the original crew can choose this fate, but what about their offspring?? Imagine if that was you perhaps you'd feel cheated, lost or angry that you weren't given the opportunity to be born on Earth.

[andrewworth]

In ancient times, through their entire lives, few people traveled more than a few miles from where they were born. Essentially most humans have lived their lives in villages, knowing few people from beyond their village.

[ShowMeTheFuture]

I'm intrigued by the challenges of sustaining a multi-generational crew in such a confined space over a century. The advancements in closed-loop life support systems and psychological strategies to maintain crew morale are crucial and truly groundbreaking in the field of long-duration space travel.

[PraveenSrJ]

This is really cool 🆒 and I hope I get on the ship 🚢 to get on Proxima Centurai B before my life is over.

[magnetsa]

In 2018 David Sinclair wrote the "Lifespan" book. As of August 2022 he has mice living 3 times their normal age. A year later multiple mammals are changing their age both forwards and backwards. The age only goes backwards about 70% since only OSK are reset via a switch in each cell.

I suspect long before a generational ship is considered, the technology of resetting cells will be mastered.

[JoesPalace]

20 years into the trip they get boarded by a faster ship!

[BillDusty]

I think the biggest gamble of the mission - beyond the engineering challenges - is that when the generational ship departs Earth, it will have humanity’s finest on board. But when the ship reaches its destination, it will only have the offspring of the finest, and the very finest of those would only be the finest of a small population, not all of humanity. And I’m assuming not all offspring will want to be explorers and astronauts. Some might want to be artists or musicians or teachers or writers. Would the ship’s leaders need to compel people to work in only science and engineering occupations?

[amandamatheny]

You would also need to know what the approximate gravity is on the target planet so that you could gradually adjust the artificial gravity over the duration of the trip and the allow the crew to adjust to the new gravity. Without any knowledge of what the gravity is like on the target world, Their bodies would have a very difficult time adapting

[billotto]

Messages will have to be sent via light beams. If I'm not mistaken, that should shorten the time between message sent & message received, no ?

[yowanowich]

Probably nothing like it would actually transpire if it ever really came to humans making this trip. No long term habitability in space will allow for such lofty ideas as “generational ships” with our biological bodies as they currently are, especially as they involve bearing new children in space (who would then have to bear their own children) under no or artificial gravity centrifugal / centripetal substitute, not to mention the impossible amount of life sustaining resources that would have to be taken onboard for such a long manned flight. If we are ever to board this ship in person it would be frozen in advanced cryogenic coffins able to re-awake the passengers after a century of hibernation while automated systems do everything from piloting the ship, to monitoring frozen passengers and finally communicating with Earth to report mission satus. Most likely, we’d just be sending robotic probes, machinery and vehicles. Not as exiciting, agreed. Also, nothing would lift off from the Earth surface like in the video and would need to be constructed, equipped and launched from either Earth’s or even Moon’s orbit. This video sounds more like some old school sci-fi thinking from back in the 50’s and 60’s of last century than something based on modern understanding and technological advancements and then projecting how they would realistically play out in the future to enable such epic voyage. Could have been better.

[doghousedon]

"Oops. Oh crap. You guys forgot to consider Proxima Century has an ort cloud, too. What was that clunk sound? Houston, we have a problem!"

[artiefischl]

ad 1: Why does the crew always must wear spacesuits?
ad 2: Will the spaceship run with windows 95 as mainframe (from 15:42)?
ad 3: Is it the reason that the computer archaeologist has a virus protection suit?
ad 4: You don't need to pass the Kuiper belt. WIKIPEDIA: Position in the equatorial coordinate system: Proxima Centauri is south of the celestial equator!
ad 5: Reproduction - the good old method probably promotes psychological more cohesion in the group.

[srinu]

May I know why accelerate to only 4.2% speed of light? why not 10 or 20% speed of light? why cant we accelerate the nuclear propulsion engine to run for 30 days instead of only 15 days? Why cant we use ion thrusters to even accelerate further?