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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • To learn more about Breakthrough Starshot, visit breakthroughini....
    Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million research and development program, aiming to establish proof of concept for a ‘nanocraft’ - a fully functional space probe at gram-scale weight - driven by a light beam. A spacecraft like this, equipped with a lightsail, has the potential to reach twenty percent of the speed of light - or 100 million miles an hour. At that speed, it could reach Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, in around 20 years. Using the fastest conventional rocket propulsion system available, the same journey would take tens of thousands of years.
    This new scientific initiative is committed to international collaboration, open access and open data. It aims to represent all of humanity as one world, stepping out into the galaxy within a generation.
    On the fifty-fifth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s great leap into space, April 12, 2016, Yuri Milner was joined by Stephen Hawking at New York’s One World Observatory to announce Breakthrough Starshot, which will lay the foundations for humanity’s next great leap: to the stars. It was also announced that Mark Zuckerberg joined the board of the initiative.

Комментарии • 224

  • @demonicious_
    @demonicious_ 6 лет назад +271

    Seriously Travelling at 20% the speed of Light in *OUR* lifetimes is just magnificent. In a time in which Star System travel is considered Fantasy and Science Fiction. But in the next few years, Not so much.

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice 5 лет назад +25

      Demonicious
      I never thought this would happen in our lifetimes

    • @tiredcitizenz1925
      @tiredcitizenz1925 5 лет назад +6

      @@stevencoardvenice same dude same

    • @sportsfails4998
      @sportsfails4998 4 года назад +20

      Let's assume they launch in 2040:
      20 years to get there + 4 years to send back data
      That means confirmation of human-made probes *physically in another system* by 2064. Amazing if you think about it

    • @branlex1315
      @branlex1315 3 года назад

      Still amazing

    • @akshitsharma8475
      @akshitsharma8475 3 года назад +4

      @@sportsfails4998 They will launch in 2030.

  • @viestursgfl6178
    @viestursgfl6178 4 года назад +69

    I really really hope that we can overcome the technological barriers in the near future. All hail engineering. Also i hope i don't die by the time we get the pics

  • @jenson1569
    @jenson1569 7 лет назад +69

    This is one of those things that might actually be possible to do with current technology

    • @shigiz
      @shigiz 7 лет назад +16

      it is! we just need more research for better quality of light sails and figure out how to snap pictures at 20 % speed of light, and its a bit expensive too but its better to put money on something that saves us in the future

    • @AAA310
      @AAA310 5 лет назад +2

      shigi what r u the ceo of starshot?

    • @stephenbryant5251
      @stephenbryant5251 5 лет назад +2

      shigi Exactly.

    • @BuddysDIY
      @BuddysDIY 3 года назад +8

      Still not possible even 4 years later. The material needed to be used for the sails is not yet figured out. They would need to be under 3 grams with 100 squared meters. Current technology has us about 10g per square meter. Just think of a dollar bill, that's a gram. Now think of 100 squared meters. That's almost the size of a small motel. All that material needed to be under 3grams and with a camrea attached. We have camreas small enought now but not the sail tech, and that's not even mentioning the energy problem. The amount of energy to shoot the sails will be equivalent to almost all the nuclear plants in america for 20 mins. And that's just for one. The plan calls for 1000 units to be sent out. The budgeting would be far more than anything we've ever done as well. Many other issues I can't get to but it's going to be a wile guys.

    • @jenson1569
      @jenson1569 3 года назад +7

      @@BuddysDIY Dam 4 years ago, I had no idea I even wrote this comment lol.

  • @AAA310
    @AAA310 5 лет назад +89

    *gets shot out of the sky by aliens once it gets there* lol

    • @elpepdud2466
      @elpepdud2466 4 года назад +8

      there be like 1000 of those starchips cause they can crash or something

    • @Elijah-pf9gi
      @Elijah-pf9gi 4 года назад +3

      AA
      Happened in 1940s by humans. The US military saw a balloon above Los Angeles, thought it was some alien craft and lit it up.

    • @Neuwey331
      @Neuwey331 4 года назад

      Okay, how can aliens see something the size of a nickel?

    • @elpepdud2466
      @elpepdud2466 4 года назад +2

      @@Neuwey331 they could sense it with telescopes or something

    • @spammymcspambox4603
      @spammymcspambox4603 3 года назад +4

      if there was aliens that close to us we'd be in contact with them by now

  • @lcagee
    @lcagee 7 лет назад +36

    Zod travelled in one of those

    • @NN1982nn
      @NN1982nn 4 года назад +1

      Zod plus 2

  • @brianc5174
    @brianc5174 5 лет назад +9

    Super cool? It's a project being worked on, wonder when they'll do it. I hope they'll do soon, it'll make be extremely hyped for y'all.

  • @adityadhardwivedi634
    @adityadhardwivedi634 7 лет назад +12

    Sure we will reach there one day

  • @dontmesswiththeriddim2699
    @dontmesswiththeriddim2699 6 месяцев назад +1

    Will be extremely amazing and cool to see this become a reality in our lifetimes! Though still, the challenges of a very stable and sturdy sail remains, plus challenges in, if needed, trajectory changes, and how they will take photos as that fast of a speed. Even though, it's ingenious in all forms! Hope it happens very soon!!

  • @jamespruett27
    @jamespruett27 5 лет назад +18

    put the lasers on the moon, not the earth

    • @thomasbenbow-taylor9044
      @thomasbenbow-taylor9044 3 года назад

      Why

    • @Ashi96
      @Ashi96 3 года назад

      @@thomasbenbow-taylor9044 Atmosphere

    • @chessgmvid
      @chessgmvid 3 года назад +1

      @@Ashi96 what do lasers do to the atmosphere?

    • @Ashi96
      @Ashi96 3 года назад

      @@chessgmvid might interfere :/

    • @briandevine8292
      @briandevine8292 2 года назад +1

      Oh ya that’s a good idea

  • @Neuwey331
    @Neuwey331 Год назад +3

    In my opinion, this way of traveling to take a photo of a neighboring star and an exoplanet would be ineffective. There is nothing slowing down the nanocrafts in space and they would just speed through without a chance to capture a clear photo. Even if it's 10% or 20% of light speed, that is still extremely fast.

  • @jaidanielparker
    @jaidanielparker Год назад +2

    1/5 the speed of light is phenomenally fast. New Horizons travelled at 43,000 km/h and it took 9.5 years to reach Pluto, but at 1/5 light speed you'd reach Pluto in about 23 hours.

    • @BekhtiRabeh
      @BekhtiRabeh 7 месяцев назад

      If we use nuclear propultion engine, how long it tank to reach proxima b planet?

    • @jaidanielparker
      @jaidanielparker 7 месяцев назад

      @@BekhtiRabeh depends on how the nuclear propulsion works but a recent NASA suggestion using nuclear reactions to heat up liquid hydrogen would take about 1000 years.

  • @allisonoliveira6758
    @allisonoliveira6758 3 года назад +4

    *_Incrible. Please, You need to do this, soon. Please._*

    • @Neuwey331
      @Neuwey331 Год назад +1

      I'm afraid it is gonna be very hard to do. The question is, once it reaches it's destination, how will the nanocraft slow down? That's the problem, if they overlooked this fact. Even if it's just 1% or 20% of the speed of light, that is still insanely fast. The nanocraft would just speed through without getting a chance of taking a photo or a rather clear one.

    • @nurbeknaiman
      @nurbeknaiman 11 месяцев назад +1

      Greetings from Kazakhstan. I always dreamed of fast travel to the stars. But it was very impossible. Thus, the introduction of fast travel technology to the stars will require very aggressive actions. If it works out, the possibility of fast travel to the stars is a lot of fun. Perhaps this is an impossible task for other intelligent civilizations in the universe? Because there are no nearby neighbors transmitting radio signals. Because achieving technological progress is not an easy task. Scientists all over the world need to come together and do something. No physicist or layman should be discriminated against. Because a great idea that did not come to the mind of an American astrophysicist who considers himself strong, may be in my imagination or someone else's. Perhaps by building a social network of scientific ideas, artificial intelligence should learn ideas and find the most correct ways.

    • @nurbeknaiman
      @nurbeknaiman 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Neuwey331There is now the technology to take a million pictures per second. So, observing the planets in the Alpha Centauri system at a speed of 60 thousand km/second is not a big problem. Challenge: Creating ultralight nanomaterials, nanoradio sensors, and nanocameras.

  • @josevivaldi3803
    @josevivaldi3803 7 лет назад +6

    I associate myself with a question before about targeting lasers in the ship. Could you imagine visible ship size on the distance, for example, as a Moon orbit? What accuracy needs for this? How laser targeting system will "see" such small ship at all? If you want to use radio beacon on ship, where you take enough power on it? Also question, what power of lasers array must be on Earth to beam thru atmosphere?

    • @Logarithm906
      @Logarithm906 2 года назад

      That is the least of this project's problems. Remember, it's a giant reflective surface, reflecting back as much of the megaWatts of laser energy as it can. When it comes to tracking it, you'd probably be able to eyeball it if the laser's in the visible spectrum.

  • @carlahead5072
    @carlahead5072 2 года назад +2

    How awesome!!! Looking forward to seeing what this will find once it reaches Alpha Centauri star system and perhaps it’ll go on to explore more star systems -how exciting. ! There’s so many unexplored wonders of our universe just waiting to be explored. Oh and perhaps iextra terrestrial life encounters would forever change humanity of space and time. There are infinite exciting possibilities awaiting our discoveries

  • @DamianReloaded
    @DamianReloaded 7 лет назад +11

    We'd of course send plenty of these all around our solar system first. It's gonna be cool. ^_^

    • @alexa.davronov1537
      @alexa.davronov1537 6 лет назад +3

      ...and we'll get the full solar system of useless garbage. Thanks No. 😑

    • @willeett
      @willeett 5 лет назад +6

      @@alexa.davronov1537 Why do you care if it's garbage in space far from earth? Lol.

    • @alexa.davronov1537
      @alexa.davronov1537 5 лет назад +4

      @@willeett Cause one day it can easily return back or obstruct humanity's way into future explorations.

    • @ThinkViralShorts
      @ThinkViralShorts 8 месяцев назад

      you do realise how small these crafts are right? And the size of the solar system? I suggest you do some research, even a billion of these crafts wouldn't obstruct even 0.000001% of the solar system and I'm not even kidding@@alexa.davronov1537

  • @demillebrandon1185
    @demillebrandon1185 2 года назад +2

    If zod sees that flying in space he's going to be like oh shit not again

  • @wildwarren
    @wildwarren 7 лет назад +11

    Thundercats, HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    • @AngelaEllaMusic
      @AngelaEllaMusic 3 года назад

      Lolol, I knew it reminded me of something!

  • @chelinduranasinghe9247
    @chelinduranasinghe9247 3 года назад +2

    wow this video made the star shot to travel to proxima in 1 minute and 40 sec

  • @yashwardhansukhadiya9514
    @yashwardhansukhadiya9514 4 года назад +1

    Please tell me that can I use this video in my RUclips video. Please tell me.🙏🙏

  • @ramizr
    @ramizr 3 года назад +1

    There's so many problems I guess , like if we shot so many lasers won't they get melted ? And , what about the dusts in space ?

  • @1MuchButteR1
    @1MuchButteR1 Год назад

    Seeing another planet with atmosphere would be so surreal... one would wonder if it's CGI.

  • @xyz4703
    @xyz4703 6 лет назад +1

    Can we use big accelator like LHC to prob nano crafts into space

  • @Arlie-dl4cp
    @Arlie-dl4cp 7 лет назад +4

    Is amazing is a good idee!

  • @HasvenWorld
    @HasvenWorld 6 лет назад +2

    *shooting stars plays*

  • @paulharland7280
    @paulharland7280 5 лет назад +3

    I wonder if solar sail craft could get a boost by traveling along the gravitational focal lines where the light of distant stars would be concentrated by gravitational lensing.

  • @quantumtaoist2256
    @quantumtaoist2256 6 лет назад +1

    Anyone else expected to see Zod and Non yelling for help?

  • @Rhovanion85
    @Rhovanion85 Год назад

    Unfortunately my headphones stopped working. I just bought new ones online. I will watch it with sound later.

  • @8ending8ranches
    @8ending8ranches 2 года назад

    awwwwwww snap, we are going back home people!

  • @freddykruger7951
    @freddykruger7951 8 лет назад +1

    built the next space station orbiting the moon. this can help with getting a little closer to mars!

    • @RandomShit169
      @RandomShit169 8 лет назад +4

      This project isn't about Mars or even our solar system. This is about photographing exoplanets and neighbouring stars.

    • @freddykruger7951
      @freddykruger7951 8 лет назад

      i was reading about where to put the next space station and somehow it liked to this youtube video! Ace!

    • @RandomShit169
      @RandomShit169 8 лет назад +2

      *****
      Okay, but why didn't you delete this comment then?

  • @palmadiolio3157
    @palmadiolio3157 5 лет назад +1

    Can I donate for this project?

  • @bobthelonghairedboi5425
    @bobthelonghairedboi5425 3 года назад +3

    I hope this actually happens fairly soon

    • @andrewmuzychko8201
      @andrewmuzychko8201 3 года назад +1

      in 2038 it will launch and be there in 2058

    • @bobthelonghairedboi5425
      @bobthelonghairedboi5425 3 года назад +1

      @@andrewmuzychko8201 I hope so at least the majority of us will still be alive so that's good

    • @eternisedDragon7
      @eternisedDragon7 2 года назад

      If you were more educated on the scope of consequences such a project risks, assuming you're emotionally intelligent and have some empathy, you'd hope for it never happening.

    • @bobthelonghairedboi5425
      @bobthelonghairedboi5425 2 года назад +1

      @@eternisedDragon7 no need to be harsh about it, instead of being insulting about it, perhaps you can educate me about the matter It's just sending unmanned and probably relatively cheap probes to a star system that probably doesn't have life in it anyway, would the laser array do something the planet??
      The laser array would be probably built on the moon so it wouldn't even harm the planet if it could, but like I said I don't know anything about lasers so what do I know

    • @eternisedDragon7
      @eternisedDragon7 2 года назад

      ​@@bobthelonghairedboi5425 I have to apologize. Though I only meant it in a factual, descriptive sense (and I mean no one can know everything about just any topic, as people learn different things and there is enough to learn to never be able to learn or understand absolutely everything, so I don't think the implication would be too harsh), and admittedly, I myself just some weeks ago still would also have had difficulties seeing why this project is so concerning in its nature. And I can see that by the way I wrote my message, one could get the impression from it that what I'm referring to might be common knowledge or that one should expect someone to know this, but actually I didn't mean it this way and wouldn't think at all that it would be common knowledge, if this helps sorting my message in.
      But yes, I'll gladly explain: So according to a whole variety of studies by researchers such as Alejandro Villamor Iglesias, Brian Tomasik, Oscar Horta, Richard Dawkins, Nick Bostrom, David Attenborough, John Stuart Mill, Christopher McGoawn, Peter Singer, and others, throughout the billions of years of evolution of life on earth, wildlife animals dominantly have been suffering, as part of the "demise of the unfit" (or survival of the fittest), and it is assumed that this is a rather inevitable consequence of evolution of life in general. So this part is the core of the following argumentation.
      On the ISS, among many tests, 1 of them has been about how long certain bacteria can survive enclosed in rocks or other materials in outer space, and it turns out they can survive for many years. Secondly, despite the clean room work environment conditions that NASA has, in a recent mission, they did admit that apparently some microbes from earth reached Mars as they have been carried there. Furthermore, for the Breakthrough Starshot project, not only 1 probe but a whole fleet of 1000 light sails is planned to be sent to the as habitable and earth-like estimated exoplanet Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to us, and so there is a plausible chance that evolution of life could be kick-started there as consequence, which could lead up to the unnecessary and easily avoidable suffering of billions of species for up to billions of years in for humanity extremely uncontrollable ways. Therefore, pursuing such an optional, honestly anyway low priority project just to get some photographs while risking to irresponsibly play god does not seem appealing. Even if the chances of it happening are very small, the extent of the spectrum of consequences could be of never before seen astronomic scope.
      So I hope you now understand and agree with my and others' stark concerns on this. It's not that I myself don't find the cosmos to be fascinating in everything that can be discovered about it, but not everything that can be done should be done, and unfortunately, following the scientific evidence and putting it together appears to lead to this more pessimistic outlook.

  • @illnigma
    @illnigma 14 дней назад +1

    If aliens were soo much advanced then us, they would of been showed themselves. I do think there's other things out there but they really may not be as advanced as we are.

  • @rahulshilwant6753
    @rahulshilwant6753 7 лет назад +2

    sounds mind blowing and existing,
    but will it survive till the end of mission ? because even though as they are saying that the path is clear, but there will be so much dust and small things which are already moving in space and with this speed a small particle also make lot of damage to the chip and we can't deny this probability within 20 years time period..I am not saying that this is not possible but we should think about this thing also.... anyways best of luck to the team for this mission...

    • @rahulshilwant6753
      @rahulshilwant6753 7 лет назад +1

      ok... now the chances are more to succeed...... truly a it will change the history of space travel...and most important thing is that it is happening in our generation. I feeling So lucky that I am gonna see this with my eyes ......

  • @ah7284
    @ah7284 7 лет назад

    The 90deg rotation all makes sense.

  • @LunarBulletDev
    @LunarBulletDev 3 года назад +1

    Okay so, how do we slow down now?

  • @mugennam1
    @mugennam1 6 месяцев назад

    I just learnt about this... is there any progress with this concept!

  • @chaitanyasharda873
    @chaitanyasharda873 7 лет назад +2

    according to these craft we could reach our moon in several hours...that's so cool

    • @AmanGarg95
      @AmanGarg95 5 лет назад +8

      Hours? No brother, 6.4 seconds. Moon is roughly 384,000 km away. Starshot aims for 0.2 c = 60,000 kmps. So, 6.4 seconds.

    • @loglmk
      @loglmk 5 лет назад +5

      @@AmanGarg95 That's actually ridiculously crazy to think about....i love it.

    • @AmanGarg95
      @AmanGarg95 5 лет назад

      @@loglmk Yea. Considering light takes just over a second to reach moon, it looks unfathomable. Yet people are working hard to achieve it.

    • @briandevine8292
      @briandevine8292 2 года назад

      It will take 7 hours to reach Neptune

  • @Nico-dt5hu
    @Nico-dt5hu 5 лет назад +1

    what a breaktrough.

  • @Mr.Deleterious
    @Mr.Deleterious 4 года назад +4

    Except Prox B is battered by hyper-violent ProxaFlares (Solar Flares) and would have no atmosphere, no water and no vegetation regardless of a powerful magnetic field. Furthermore, the light from Prox Cen would be too dim at Prox B's point of orbit to take such a well lit, high quality photo in the first place. Having said all that, I think you've done a great job on this concept and look forward to more simulations from you in the future.

    • @Designed1
      @Designed1 Год назад

      with enough adjustments you can make any planets look brighter than they actually are. i mean, there's no way that pluto and mercury both are illuminated just as much by the sun, yet both photos we took of the planets look about the same in terms of brightness

    • @RandomStuff-dl1gd
      @RandomStuff-dl1gd 9 месяцев назад

      @@Designed1New Horizons wasn’t going 20% the speed of light

  • @nicholasmccartney2521
    @nicholasmccartney2521 3 года назад

    really hope i live to see pics of proximal centauri

  • @adityarajsrivastava6580
    @adityarajsrivastava6580 4 года назад +1

    The only problem is:
    We don't have a suitable technology to do this
    We don't gaurantee whether it is going to be safe not colliding with snall objects
    We don't know how to stop it, so we will have only some nanoseconds to take an image.

    • @3User
      @3User 3 года назад +1

      Yeah currently it's not too feasible to do this but as for that last point, we'd have more than a few nanoseconds, more like a few minutes to actually take distant images and then take close ups before shooting past the planet, which would hypothetically be conducted a thousand times

  • @PussGreyPussMeng
    @PussGreyPussMeng Год назад +2

    When will this project take place? Or how much does it cost?

  • @AurelLiansyah
    @AurelLiansyah 4 года назад

    WOOOOWWW, amazing

  • @sprightlyrandom1550
    @sprightlyrandom1550 6 месяцев назад

    Why flyby the planet when we can send it straight into it so we get as much resolution as possible. Maybe by then we’ll have an exceptionally good camera so we don’t need to get so close.

    • @updraft.trance
      @updraft.trance 5 месяцев назад

      Because it'll be travelling at 0.2c or 60,000km per SECOND! No way to slow down. For example the time from entering an atmosphere like ours (100km thick) and hitting the ground would be around 2 milliseconds :O

  • @thekurdishgirl6538
    @thekurdishgirl6538 3 года назад +1

    When it start??????? plz tell me

  • @takatetkt
    @takatetkt 2 года назад

    Oh, “The paper” from Three Body Problem third book.

  • @deagang7586
    @deagang7586 4 года назад

    Imagine seeing one of these wizz by our planet someday

  • @ashmeelajabeen8612
    @ashmeelajabeen8612 6 лет назад +1

    Why don't they create a strong magnetic field on craft with less mass

  • @SirNomad
    @SirNomad 2 года назад

    Uhm, Larry Niven literally described this over 50 years ago. I'm pretty sure he wasn't the only author to do so.

  • @oqueedeuseoquechamadodeus5346
    @oqueedeuseoquechamadodeus5346 4 года назад

    será uma bela obra

  • @lokitus242
    @lokitus242 4 года назад

    génius !!!

  • @detBits
    @detBits 8 лет назад +1

    Land based lasers? Would solar powered space lasers not be more effective? On the moon perhaps?

    • @ytho3557
      @ytho3557 8 лет назад +4

      Not that straight forward. Getting anything into space is super expensive so it is cheaper to build them here and need a bit more power than build them in space and need a ton of rocket fuel

    • @thelastofus1382
      @thelastofus1382 6 лет назад +1

      NO

    • @jamespruett27
      @jamespruett27 5 лет назад +1

      @@ytho3557 you will have a no-fly zone, Not the best IMHO.

  • @tiredcitizenz1925
    @tiredcitizenz1925 5 лет назад +2

    When is Launch

    • @felipexp8836
      @felipexp8836 4 года назад

      2069
      100 years after the man on the moon

    • @dr4876
      @dr4876 4 года назад +1

      @@felipexp8836 nice numbers

  • @saduddin6431
    @saduddin6431 3 года назад

    Good

  • @thearchivedlad4855
    @thearchivedlad4855 Год назад

    Everything's all fine and dandy till you learn this won't launch until 2069.

  • @7679796967679679
    @7679796967679679 Год назад +1

    最も実現可能なアイデアだと思います(╹◡╹)

  • @lazyvideoproductions2979
    @lazyvideoproductions2979 5 лет назад

    So, this is basically a gaint laser that will yeet the probe. huh. wonder if i can use this on myself.

  • @yashwardhansukhadiya9514
    @yashwardhansukhadiya9514 4 года назад

    Please tell me that can I use this video in my video.I am a small RUclipsr .

  • @Stickman_Productions
    @Stickman_Productions 3 года назад

    So thin it might slip through the Oort Cloud

  • @yashwardhansukhadiya9514
    @yashwardhansukhadiya9514 4 года назад

    Can I use this animation in my RUclips video please tell me 🙏🙏🙏

  • @lantoriam7553
    @lantoriam7553 4 года назад

    cooles Video very interessting

  • @courtneycarthy
    @courtneycarthy 5 лет назад

    Sound?

  • @VendPrekmurec
    @VendPrekmurec 7 лет назад +1

    I know how to stop it down near Alpha Centauri.

  • @aimaiked
    @aimaiked 4 года назад

    Top

  • @frankjrmolley895
    @frankjrmolley895 5 лет назад

    Yeah, that's great for the Insect community but what or who keeps an eye on that there weapon, "The Light Beamer" they're just putting a sensor at the ends of infra-red lasers beamed into deep space, but hey when you think about this, that's pretty much the equivalent of our own Death Star right? Plutonium and Neptunium weaponised lol...hello??

    • @loglmk
      @loglmk 5 лет назад +1

      I do not have a problem with Earth being renamed to Death Star lol.

  • @ekscholl
    @ekscholl 7 лет назад +1

    so the chip comes back? I'm not sure I follow entirely....

    • @Jordan-vr7ip
      @Jordan-vr7ip 7 лет назад +3

      No the chip beams the photos and information back to us. That takes 4 years.

    • @ekscholl
      @ekscholl 7 лет назад

      Sick Dece ah...cool deal. thanks

  • @pika0912
    @pika0912 3 года назад

    In the near future our spaceships would probably travel at the speed of light or faster than light

    • @kq1564
      @kq1564 3 года назад +1

      Exactly! They need to put money into human interstellar flight and then it probably would happen in our lifetime.

    • @pika0912
      @pika0912 3 года назад

      @@kq1564 yes big man

    • @gt3rs780
      @gt3rs780 3 года назад +1

      ​@@pika0912 but think this first, light has no mass, so what is something on earth that has no mass? that's the problem

    • @cvk4488
      @cvk4488 Год назад +1

      ​@@gt3rs780the answer is nothing since nothing has no mass

  • @eldasher2000
    @eldasher2000 4 года назад

    Not breaktrought starshot is going to find alien life?

  • @fourwindbadger8066
    @fourwindbadger8066 10 месяцев назад

    Instructions unclear, how do i stop? O_0

  • @Reddblue
    @Reddblue 6 лет назад

    How it go back doe?

  • @dopewrestlingmoves5675
    @dopewrestlingmoves5675 4 года назад

    The thing is what is this piece of paper going to do when it reaches alpha centauri

  • @anthonyholmes2229
    @anthonyholmes2229 2 года назад

    I would use satellite based lasers

  • @ertikoeler1612
    @ertikoeler1612 3 года назад +1

    But I think,
    you need a lot of energy for this project, and this in times of the climatic change.

  • @finnphillips3401
    @finnphillips3401 2 года назад

    I mean the moon

  • @E.L.C.
    @E.L.C. 11 месяцев назад

    That directed energy will decimate our atmosphere

  • @harry3063
    @harry3063 3 года назад +1

    Who came here after antariksh TV?

  • @bacongamer3082
    @bacongamer3082 3 года назад

    are we gonna die 1:31

  • @nickjockey11
    @nickjockey11 8 лет назад +2

    noo, It's only going to do a flyby? I thought it would take pictures of the surface to see if there's ant life. Bummer

    • @shigiz
      @shigiz 7 лет назад +5

      yes, its a flyby and it will snap pictures at 20 % speed of light, we just have to figure out how to do it and develop better light sails , expect the first photo of proxima B within 30 to 35 years from now

    • @eternisedDragon7
      @eternisedDragon7 2 года назад

      ​@@shigiz No, it better won't do this, because it violates the United Nation's Outer Space Treaty's ethically utmost important "no contamination" law, because its 1000 light-sails - which are impossible to keep sterile - would most crudely recklessly risk kick-starting evolution of life on Proxima Centauri b, irreversibly forcing unutterably astronomical amounts of suffering onto billions of species possibly for billions of years in the "demise of the unfit", i.e. the survival of the fittest. For reference, scientific studies for earth's wildlife throughout evolution strongly suggest suffering has been the dominating experience. Humanity should be wiser than risking to play the worst possible kind of devil our universe might see.

  • @canekeen9047
    @canekeen9047 2 года назад

    wait.. how about brakes? brakes for cowards?

  • @user-gd5zp8yo1t
    @user-gd5zp8yo1t 7 дней назад

    caralho Sacani falou dessa porra
    me parece uma lombra do caralho isso
    e olha q nem fumo maconha, tá doido

  • @poll-lie-ticks1776
    @poll-lie-ticks1776 7 лет назад +2

    A project like Breakthrough Starshot is so far beyond our current technological capabilities it's hilarious. It's good to dream and invest in the future, but this project falls so far short of that.
    A project like Breakthrough Starshot would probably require investment in the hundreds of billions if not trillions, rather than the currently proposed hundreds of millions. It would dwarf any science project humanity has ever attempted, including Apollo, the LHC, Hubble, James Webb and even the proposed human Mars mission.
    If Starshot could be successfully executed within the next 150 years I would be stunned. There are so many technological problems it's hard to find a place to start. One of the biggest problems facign Breakthrough Starshot is the technology required to transmit data from Alpha Centauri to Earth. On a spacecraft that is supposed to weigh only a few grams and has to comprised of other scientific equipment, installing a transmitter that can send data from Alpha Centauri to Earth is just so far beyond our current capabilities it's ridiculous. For example, the New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006, could only send data from Pluto at about 2kb/s (That's fucking slow!) from a distance of approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) kilometers. The mass weight of New Horizons was about 400kg, or 400,000 grams. Breakthrough Starshot, is supposed to send data back from Alpha Centauri from a distance of 41,000,000,000,000 (41 trillion) kilometers, and each craft is only supposed to weigh between 3-5 grams. Lets look at it side by side:
    NEW HORIZONS BREAKTHROUGH STARSHOT
    Launch: 2006 Within 50 years
    Weight: 400,000 grams 3-5 grams
    Mission Target: Pluto Alpha Centauri
    Transmitting Distance: 5,000,000,000km 41,000,000,000,000km
    (5 billion km) (41trillion km)
    LOL. This means that Alpha Centauri is 8,200 times further from the Earth than Pluto, and Breakthrough Starshot is supposed to be able to transmit from that distance with an average weight of only 1/100,000 of the New Horizons spacecraft.
    Without a stupendous level of funding that rivals the 2009 US Financial Bailout or the Marshall Plan, Breakthrough Starshot has basically a 0% chance of succeeding based solely on the data transmitting problem alone. And this is just one of dozens of problems facing the mission. The levels of technology required are several orders of magnitude beyond our current capabilities. If I were to guesstimate, a project like Breakthrough Starshot would be viable in 250 years time at the earliest.
    Have a lovely day folks!

    • @shigiz
      @shigiz 7 лет назад +9

      ur just mad because it is possible, the next 3 decades, we will have the first picture of proxima centauri b, just believe me, we have all the current tech to make this work, we only need more research to make better light sails with nano tech that needs to be 100 atoms thick, and how to snap pictures at 20 % light speed

    • @hikonz
      @hikonz 5 лет назад +7

      i love when kids online do an hour of research and think they're smarter than theoretical physicists lol

  • @deafdeaf8349
    @deafdeaf8349 7 лет назад

    I don't belive on this

  • @tomthx5804
    @tomthx5804 7 лет назад +1

    This thing will never be built. So you light up an array of lasers that will fry any bird that flies through? You are going to be picking dead birds off your lasers all day long. Good luck if a plane flies over.

    • @jdraper12
      @jdraper12 7 лет назад +12

      Tom thx who gives a fuck about birds given the opportunities this presents :^)

    • @saskshark
      @saskshark 7 лет назад +5

      Tom is probably just a little kid or something, seems obvious from the comment eh??? LOLOLOL

    • @Aceboiii590
      @Aceboiii590 7 лет назад +3

      Tom thx fuck those birds

    • @Kazzack
      @Kazzack 7 лет назад +6

      What are you talking about? I'ts only a very small area, that is beeing lighted and for a short amount of time.
      Probably an airplane is more dangerous then that.

    • @Music1222
      @Music1222 7 лет назад +1

      Tom thx Are you dumb??

  • @sexy_tanjiro8878
    @sexy_tanjiro8878 2 года назад

    Lasers that blast from Earths surface to space? Unrealistic not even near possible with current technology. Stick on building the sail and how to get it up there and make sure it the spacecraft does not get torn while sailing.

  • @saskshark
    @saskshark 7 лет назад +142

    This is a cool idea, I like it.... Especially with Prof. Hawkins involved.... If they launch within a year or two I may still be alive when we receive data and pictures from Alpha Centauri. I wish the very best of luck to all involved!!!

    • @christianv-h3278
      @christianv-h3278 7 лет назад +23

      Sorry to tell you but the probes will probably be launched in 2 decades.

    • @AP-fo5cf
      @AP-fo5cf 7 лет назад +17

      kola3ear +4 years for the light to get back

    • @jak743
      @jak743 6 лет назад +14

      Who knows maybe you will live long enough that they have other breakthrough which speeds up the process.

    • @tiredcitizenz1925
      @tiredcitizenz1925 5 лет назад +1

      We could send humans if we wanted

    • @sportsfails4998
      @sportsfails4998 4 года назад +4

      @@jak743 or they have a breakthrough that extends his life

  • @TheTERMlNAT0R
    @TheTERMlNAT0R 3 года назад +16

    Imagine if the sail actually comes close enough to photograph the surface and we see weird animal like wild life , eating the vegetation there ????

    • @davidkirkpatrick1888
      @davidkirkpatrick1888 3 года назад

      Well the temperature is -25 and you would die from radiation poison but who knows maybe there is something more there

    • @marranin007
      @marranin007 2 года назад +1

      no

  • @jtasakorn
    @jtasakorn 8 лет назад +17

    How about using the target star's sunlight on the sail to provide speed reduction power and navigation for orbital insertion on approach? In 20 years time, we may already have AI power on those chips, but would there be enough starlight power for solar breaking (like aerobreaking manouvers) and sailing into orbit at what required orbital speeds?

    • @chrogram7180
      @chrogram7180 7 лет назад +9

      It might just be a flyby mission, since slowing down at that speed would take a a lot of energy.

    • @RedsBoneStuff
      @RedsBoneStuff 7 лет назад +7

      I don't think you'll be able to get rid of all that speed. These are going at 20% the speed of light.

    • @kishkishkish4797
      @kishkishkish4797 6 лет назад +9

      theyre just going to be flyby missions, too much energy required to slow something down thats going 1/5 th the speed of light.

  • @rtm1619
    @rtm1619 Год назад

    So did anything happen with this project?

  • @miki74628
    @miki74628 6 лет назад +2

    Dear friends,
    There is an imperative need that we take our eyes off
    the distant skies for a while; Regardless of how challenging and exciting it may
    appear, the propulsion of tiny spacecrafts towards distant “exoplanets” cannot be
    a first priority for the pioneers of our age; certainly not for those who are
    indeed concerned about some of the world’s crucial, real problems which happen
    to be solvable problems too. There is at least one foremost priority, a global
    emergency that cannot wait for tomorrow; it is actually a fundamental duty towards
    humanity for the brilliant minds of this world and particularly those who
    consider themselves pioneers: before
    reaching out to Alpha Centauri, they ought, in favor of all of us, to
    concentrate their efforts upon a clearly more “earthly” mission; they ought to
    struggle for the radical reform of a tragically failed model of transportation
    right here, on the ground. Of course, I am referring to road transportation
    whose tragic consequences on the lives of so many millions of people are
    haunting the modern world. Road transportation as we know it is not part of the
    human progress as most of us are convinced; in fact, it has nothing to do with
    progress as it is dominated by an extremely inhuman “rationale” with human life
    being treated within it as a totally expendable, insignificant value. Most of
    the world’s roads constitute an extremely hostile, life-threatening environment
    especially for the vulnerable road users, pedestrians, bikers and motorcycle
    riders and, particularly, the young and inexperienced. A radically different alternative is urgently
    needed; a human centered mobility pattern that will be corresponding with the
    spectacular technological development of our age. This is the unquestionable priority for
    everyone who is really concerned with the good of humanity; and there is no
    time for wasting. Every single year
    1,400,000 human beings are brutally killed on the roads of the world; millions
    of others are seriously wounded - many of them to remain handicapped for the
    rest of their life… Of course, there’s a
    much greater number of people who are directly affected by that devastation,
    those who are near the victims: their families, friends and colleagues.
    Those who truly deserve the title of the pioneer must direct
    their efforts and resources towards two main targets: A) Campaigning. Purposeful, resistant, long
    term campaigning through the mass media; campaigning that will be powerful
    enough to awaken the world and change the mentality, habits and behaviors of
    the ordinary people everywhere. B) Full
    exploitation of the spectacular technological potential of our age and the
    adoption of bold, radical, groundbreaking solutions that will transform in a
    drastic manner today’s transportation model in terms of infrastructure, rules
    and technology with the protection of human life finally being placed above
    everything else.
    The world is in desperate need of that change now. It
    is rather obvious, our foremost priority cannot be other than that: a
    groundbreaking change of the way we move on the roads, as sooner as possible. Undoubtedly,
    that change will be much more easily achieved if a strong worldwide movement
    for the liberation of humanity from the road crashes plague is developed through
    the appropriate communication strategies. Building awareness globally about the
    appalling realities of road transportation and the urgent need for drastic
    action about that problem is crucially important. The videos below, borrowed from long term road
    safety campaigns in the U.K., Australia and elsewhere (among the few road
    safety campaigns that have been evidently successful) are characteristic examples
    of an effective road safety campaigning style which must intensify and acquire
    an international character from now on. It is probably the most convincing
    material for most of us - except those who are facing the reality itself:
    traffic police officers, paramedics and the personnel of emergency rooms and
    rehabilitation units in hospitals everywhere in the world and of course those
    who have been directly affected already, often in a devastating way, by the
    consequences of road crashes. Powerful road safety awareness messages like
    these must air frequently on a permanent basis all over the world so that they
    can reach and influence thoroughly the ordinary people everywhere. This is the ABSOLUTE
    MISSION for every one of us who’s able to interfere drastically within our
    societies. The Alpha Centauri and Proxima B and other similar ambitious
    projects can wait for a little longer; at least until a solution for that
    “peaceful” devastation on the surface of our planet is found - hopefully soon…
    THE LINKS TO SOME AWAKENING MESSAGES:
    ruclips.net/user/TACVictoria
    ruclips.net/user/thinkuk
    ruclips.net/video/ipnJbSnmc24/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/SnKsaoGErnU/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/j-mdoambAQQ/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/OVnRcIXEqaU/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/CWwbAgmE3N4/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/5Z23CzSONiU/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/FqvLcVBOhP4/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/DTz0xO7Erc4/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/KCScKhoGeXQ/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/q9fms5He5bM/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/-izycNgKsyA/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/zY0qw_Yt7bc/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/oal-vBFmnRk/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/H5EyOnccJLg/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/bvLaTupw-hk/видео.html
    justslowdown.ca/videos/busy-guy/
    ruclips.net/video/DGwcttyhus8/видео.html

    • @Trev0r98
      @Trev0r98 6 лет назад +4

      Humanity is perfectly capable of doing more than one thing at a time. And there's plenty of resources and wealth to do more than one thing at a time. You do your thing, others can do theirs. Just because you don't approve of this man's vision does not mean that he should quit trying to pursue it...although I'm sure you think otherwise.

    • @thelastofus1382
      @thelastofus1382 6 лет назад +1

      *SHUT*
      *UP*

    • @hikonz
      @hikonz 5 лет назад +1

      stfu

    • @priestgoober5160
      @priestgoober5160 Год назад

      no

  • @jamesdennis6120
    @jamesdennis6120 2 года назад

    Can you imagine a miscalculation error that once there, the last photo that reaches us is one of intelligent life forms right before this crashes into their planet and destroys almost everything there, but somehow this space craft still held onto earthling dna that spawns us all again. Then the origins would be about a prehistoric humanoid species existed once before but an astroid must have came out of nowhere and wiped out most of the species, while the other portion was greatly affected due to exposure of some subsequent ice age (or catastrophic change in the environment) that wiped out almost all of the rest of the species there. Then the dna that survived from earth, over the millions of years of evolution, started adapting and incorporating the local lifeforms building blocks to survive; leading to dna that is quite similar to the local species. Enough to believe that we all had the same origin, but, we are unable to find enough data to suggest the original link after some point in our history tree. That would be nuts haha.

    • @kamabokogonpachiro5131
      @kamabokogonpachiro5131 2 года назад

      Imagine if this is what happened to earth 66 million yrs ago, wiping out dinosaurs

    • @marranin007
      @marranin007 2 года назад +2

      @@kamabokogonpachiro5131 it's 3 grams chill out lol