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Pluto is ridiculously far away. Proxima Centauri is impossibly far away. To scale, if both stars were the size of a basketball and the sun sat in New York City, Proxima Centauri would sit in Hawaii. Now imagine your "starship" is a speck of dust a few feet from that basketball sized sun, that can move about a billionth of the speed of a snail, and think about how long it would take you to get to Hawaii.
If you could get to Pluto in an hour, getting to Alpha Centauri would take you 8 months. If you could get to Alpha Centari in an hour, getting to the Andromeda Galaxy would take you more than 250 years. Believe me, the harder you try to comprehend the size of the universe, the harder it gets.
We will never see it but at the rate technology is advancing there will be a generation who will visit there. They also would know from history there was a time humans couldn't even explore our own solar system without probes. There was a time when oceans seemed almost impossible to cross. Interstellar travel will happen for humans at some point.
@@Jakery1057 The rate of technological advance isn't constant. Also bear in mind that over the next 100-200 years (less than an eyeblink in cosmic time), we will experience a mass extinction and a rapid shift of climatic zones, forcing humans to adapt extremely quickly (read: thousands of times faster than we have evolved so far) or else face an unknown decimation of our numbers (half of our total planetary population is not unrealistic). Whether we will be able to sustain technological advancement at anything near the current rate while our society is collapsing and our numbers are shrinking is highly doubtful.
Our main deterrent to space travel is that our source of energy - liquid fuel - has very low mass/energy ratio. That means you have to carry a lot of heavy fuel, and you have to carry it outside of the Earth's gravitational well. Our bodies only last so long, so 200 year space voyages are impossible at this time. If we could figure out how to harness nuclear power for propulsion we might have a fighting chance to get to Alpha Centauri. We would have to get to a significant portion of light speed in order for the trip to be viable for humans. Let's say you can somehow accelerate at 1g (9.81 m/s^2). In your time frame you would accelerate for about 2.3 years and then you would have to deaccelerate for another 2.3 years once you hit the midpoint. You will be travelling at 98% the speed of light, so there will be relativistic effects. People on Earth will think you took 10 years to make the trip, but you will make it in about 4.6 years.
Or perhaps something more exotic than nuclear propulsion, such as matter-antimatter annihilation. Obviously we aren't there yet (I believe yet so far we have been able to produce a couple nanograms of antimatter), but perhaps some day in the future. Mass is your biggest enemy when attempting to reach relativistic speeds, as you mentioned about the liquid fuel. Getting outside of our solar system will be nothing but a fantasy until much more advanced methods of propulsion are discovered.
Real space travel, like say Star Wars or Star Trek type space travel, is only possible if you find a away to eliminate the speed of light barrier. Things in the part of the universe that we call our "neighborhood" are still tens , dozens, or even a hundreds of light years away. Anything extra galactic still takes way too long on a human lifetime scale, even traveling at close to the speed of light (which, without some unknown technology we couldn't survive anyway). So at best, for now we're stuck to our own backyard as far as where we can physically travel too.
New Horizons did multiple loops of the inner solar system before heading for Pluto. Voyager and stuff like that were pretty much straight shots in comparison. Voyager is farther from the sun but New Horizons has traveled more distance.
The wording is subject to multiple interpretations. Perhaps New Horizons has logged the most miles of travel, but certainly the Voyagers are farther away from Earth than New Horizons. Maybe the author could clarify?
As of 2015, Voyager 1 was approximately 130 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth, which translates to roughly 19.5 billion miles while also in 2015 New Horizons was approximately 32 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth when it reached Pluto.
I'm old too and grew up being taught that Pluto was the ninth planet. I didn't like the reclassification at first, but the more Kuiper Belt objects we discovered, the more it began to make sense that Pluto be "demoted" from full planetary status. If not, you would also have to consider hundreds of other bodies to be planets.
The study of dwarf planets as well as major moons is known as "planetary science" therefore i think of about 23 objects when I think of "Planets". Pluto and Charon would be like, 18-19 or something
Pluto is a hair over 5 light hours away. At present it is 3.38 billion miles away, an incomprehensibly large number. New horizons took 9 yrs 5 mo to get there, and that's with a gravity assist slingshot speed boost from Jupiter, which reduced from 14 years to under 10. Proxima is 4 light years away (and a bit more; .2 or .3 or .4). No spacecraft from Earth will ever get there. It would take 80,000 years at our present level of technology. That, btw, is how long the Hudson river will take to run clean again from the PCBs dumped into it by General Electric for decades.
The issue with the reclassification of Pluto is easily defined in this way due to the makeup of the International Astronomical Union: the astronomers refuse to believe that Pluto is anything but a KBO, but the planetary scientists say that Pluto is a planet and always will be. The reason why the shift occurred is because of how many of each discipline was available during the day they voted. There are *_THOUSANDS_* of scientists in the IAU, but being that the members are from countries from all over the globe, and in 2006, (pre-Zoom) it was next to impossible to arrange to have them all there on the same day, so ultimately, the number of scientists who were present to vote was only around 400, and astronomers were the more overwhelmingly represented on that day. (I had a friend who was a member at the time). The day may come again when the vote is retaken, but inertia is an amazing thing; it may not happen for years or decades or never.
And if the vote happens again , the vote will go the same way , pluto moves inside neptunes orbit , pluto has,nt cleared its own orbit , these 2 reasons are why its now classed a dwarf planet , and will be forever more
I'm with the author here on Pluto. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and makes little ducks, I'd say it's a duck. Pluto has a multi-layered construction featuring a metallic core, an atmosphere, it's big enough to be round, not obloid or irregular, has its own system of moons, and it has interesting and active geology. If that ain't quacking like a duck, I don't know what is!
0:30 they weren't "forced", there was absolutely no reason other than "but if we don't the solar system has 20 planets and that is to much whaaaaaa" IAU: We can't have so many planets... Pluto is no longer a planet. Me: So... what is it then? IAU: It is a Dwarf Planet Me: So you are saying that Pluto is... in fact... a planet..... IAU: Nooooo... not like that!!
It’s not like they redefined planet and Pluto didn’t meet it. They decided they didn’t want Pluto to be a planet and tried to craft a definition that would kick Pluto out of the club but keep the other eight in.
Let's remember just how HOSTILE space is to humans and we can barely reach Pluto with current rocket technology and it will still take years. Alpha Centauri... forget it with current tech, sorry.👍😔❤️
“We still can’t say for sure”. But the International Planetary Union has some criteria for what is considered a planet and Pluto didn’t meet all criteria. Horizon, gone farther than any other had gone before… Pioneer 10-11, Voyager 1-2; and New Horizons.
All the talk about how long it might take to get to Alpha Centauri is pointless. What will you do upon arrival? The only known planet (Proxima B) is tidally locked to its star (Proxima Centauri) and not fit for human habitation. Interstellar travel is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. We had better learn to take better care of the third rock from the sun and to live together in peace.
Until one day when the next super volcano erupts, or the next big asteroid impacts or the next Ice Age comes, all of which WILL HAPPEN at some point. Hunkering down on this planet and hoping for the best isn't a sensible strategy anymore than your supposedly 'impossible' interstellar travel.
Exiting and entering solar systems are not accounted for in this video. What is the gravitational speed once you enter the gravitational pull of a solar system.
My understanding is the time and distance problem. AC is 4ly away but would take over 4 to get there. We see it as it was 4yrs ago if we could send something at light speed. It take 8 years as in 4ys it get to where it was now and AC will have moved another 4lys away. So unless it is either moving less then light speed or moving toward us we never reach it unless we go faster then light. It's 2am going back to sleep to see if I remember direction and speed in the morning😴
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! We're currently limited by the speed of light, so it would take much longer unless we find new technology that can go faster.
We need warp drivers to travel in a realistic timeframe to other stars. They also need to be time machines to prevent getting to the destination in the distant future, relative to the place of departure.
I believe the only way it is possible for a species to travel any sort of significant distance through space, would be to possess the technology to create their own artificial wormholes, a sort of a stargate. Obviously, we don't even know if that is possible, but the concept of a wormhole itself is allowed within the laws of physics. Something like an Alcubiere drive, or warp drive, isn't allowed as far as we can tell.
This was one of the better science fact videos I've seen in some time. I missed something though and it's because I'm not strong enough at math. My confusion occurred when the trip to Proxima B originally was going to take 3-4 years with the observer's going to be 9-10 years, but suddenly, with the light sail, it shot up to from ship time being 10 years to the observer's pov being in the millions. How did this happen?
depends for who, light travels to Pluto and Alpha centaur just fine, in fact it for it it happens instantly, because anything traveling at speed of light doesn't travel in time - it experiences all the time and space it occupies at once.
Remember...Star Trek already solved some of these problematic encounters...such as using a deflector dish, with very high output, to push away harmful particles, and the shielding that protects the ship...known as a 'deflector sheild'. Yes, such powerful sources, such as warp drive, is still extremely risky, and the equations is very complicated to adjust of any problems of such.
Because it’s “cleared its orbit” - meaning it’s gravitationally massive enough to absorb nearby small asteroids in its orbit’s vicinity. Unfortunately Pluto hasn’t cleared its orbit, as it’s simply a large kuiper belt object.
Well these light sails look very promising. They are saying that you can get to a significant percentage of light speed pushing them with lasers. The problem is how to keep from hitting stuff. Basically space is empty space yet sticking a BB at 5% of light speed would destroy just about anything we can make.
I wouldn't quite put getting to Pluto in the same category as getting to Proxima Centauri ,a transit time of a decade or so vs 70000 years is a huge difference!Plus 4 other spacecraft have been further than New Horizons as the 2 Pioneers and 2 Voyagers are well beyond it.
Sub light speed looks more plausible if you drop human biology. The long times and radiation are no longer absolute barriers, though trade would still be basically non existent aside from long delay info exchange.
The International astronomical union decided Pluto was no longer a planet and demoted it from a planet status, and then ingeniously reclassified it as a dwarf PLANET, wtf, makes no sense.
People who can't tell you ANYTHING about Pluto: We hate astronomers! Half of every Astronomy 101 class the Professor my ex-wife's uncle taught, which I actually buy after asking some of my friends their view and level of knowledge.
laser and sail bases systems cant happen for now , politicly , any laser that can send anything to the closest star is a powerful weapon , turned towards earth you have a mass destruction system that can fire again and again , not a chance we will work together
We'll reach pluto before we see a youtube video about pluto that doesn't needlessly reitterate and explain pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf planet. In other words, not for a biblically long time...
I like how scientists claim. What's on another planet. Or what it's made of. Without actually going there. I guess I'm the only one. That thinks. Just because something looks like something we have here. Doesn't mean it's the same thing there. That is narrow minded two dimensional thinking
Errr, New Horizons has gone further than any other human made spacecraft has gone? Voyagers 1 and 2 anyone? Strange mistake for a space channel to make.
WTF is this shit? First off both Voyager 1 and 2 have gone further than New Horizons, and Pluto is suspected of having an ocean beneath the surface which might be home to life.
Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled farther, but New Horizons was the first to do a close flyby of Pluto and send back detailed images. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I don’t know when scientist are ever gonna understand. There are no rules. There is no scientist God making the 10 Commandment rules of science. There’s no mother nature God making rules. Freaky is as freaky does all over the universe.
Let me save you all some time. They are far away and we barely have the tech to reach Pluto, and then can only do so with poor reliability. Reaching another star, well, I’d have a better chance of hitting powerball and megamillions 1000 times in a row for billion dollar payouts.
I swear this was written by AI. Whats with all the intro lessons to what Pluto is? Whats any of it have to do with the title? Should be talking about traveling and were getting a history lesson on a planet. Bad writing. 5 mins in and its still an intro.
It looks as if we are stuck on earth. This is as good as it gets , so let’s love each other and make it work. The truth is we are the naked third ape, treating the earth as an infinite resource. We dare to call our species : Homo sapiens sapiens , wise prudent man. The arrogance is unbelievable. Time to wake up folks.
Alpha centauri wont be the nearest star in 80.000 years,,by the time you got there,it wouldve been better to head for stars that WILL be closer in 80.000 years,like ross 128 or gisele 445.
The only way to travel that far, and fast and instantly, is upon our passing. Our family and pets who have past, have already made that journey. They Reached the absolute end of the Universe upon that moment they left this Earth. They all made that journey, (If they are worthy) , and reached that other Dimension where Dreams are Born.
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It is STILL a planet; its just a dwarf planet...
Me too
Pluto is ridiculously far away. Proxima Centauri is impossibly far away. To scale, if both stars were the size of a basketball and the sun sat in New York City, Proxima Centauri would sit in Hawaii. Now imagine your "starship" is a speck of dust a few feet from that basketball sized sun, that can move about a billionth of the speed of a snail, and think about how long it would take you to get to Hawaii.
@@100percentSNAFU put another way: the nearest star is approximately 9,000 times further away than the distance from the sun to Pluto.
If you could get to Pluto in an hour, getting to Alpha Centauri would take you 8 months.
If you could get to Alpha Centari in an hour, getting to the Andromeda Galaxy would take you more than 250 years.
Believe me, the harder you try to comprehend the size of the universe, the harder it gets.
We will never see it but at the rate technology is advancing there will be a generation who will visit there. They also would know from history there was a time humans couldn't even explore our own solar system without probes. There was a time when oceans seemed almost impossible to cross. Interstellar travel will happen for humans at some point.
@@Jakery1057 The rate of technological advance isn't constant. Also bear in mind that over the next 100-200 years (less than an eyeblink in cosmic time), we will experience a mass extinction and a rapid shift of climatic zones, forcing humans to adapt extremely quickly (read: thousands of times faster than we have evolved so far) or else face an unknown decimation of our numbers (half of our total planetary population is not unrealistic). Whether we will be able to sustain technological advancement at anything near the current rate while our society is collapsing and our numbers are shrinking is highly doubtful.
Thanks for sharing!
Our main deterrent to space travel is that our source of energy - liquid fuel - has very low mass/energy ratio. That means you have to carry a lot of heavy fuel, and you have to carry it outside of the Earth's gravitational well. Our bodies only last so long, so 200 year space voyages are impossible at this time. If we could figure out how to harness nuclear power for propulsion we might have a fighting chance to get to Alpha Centauri. We would have to get to a significant portion of light speed in order for the trip to be viable for humans. Let's say you can somehow accelerate at 1g (9.81 m/s^2). In your time frame you would accelerate for about 2.3 years and then you would have to deaccelerate for another 2.3 years once you hit the midpoint. You will be travelling at 98% the speed of light, so there will be relativistic effects. People on Earth will think you took 10 years to make the trip, but you will make it in about 4.6 years.
Or perhaps something more exotic than nuclear propulsion, such as matter-antimatter annihilation. Obviously we aren't there yet (I believe yet so far we have been able to produce a couple nanograms of antimatter), but perhaps some day in the future. Mass is your biggest enemy when attempting to reach relativistic speeds, as you mentioned about the liquid fuel. Getting outside of our solar system will be nothing but a fantasy until much more advanced methods of propulsion are discovered.
Real space travel, like say Star Wars or Star Trek type space travel, is only possible if you find a away to eliminate the speed of light barrier. Things in the part of the universe that we call our "neighborhood" are still tens , dozens, or even a hundreds of light years away. Anything extra galactic still takes way too long on a human lifetime scale, even traveling at close to the speed of light (which, without some unknown technology we couldn't survive anyway).
So at best, for now we're stuck to our own backyard as far as where we can physically travel too.
Good point. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
@@BitwiseMobile thanks for clearing that up, i thought we were just lazy or space just didn't exist
"New Horizons is the farthest any spacecraft has ever traveled"? Uh, you might want to rethink that.
New Horizons did multiple loops of the inner solar system before heading for Pluto. Voyager and stuff like that were pretty much straight shots in comparison. Voyager is farther from the sun but New Horizons has traveled more distance.
@@IRMacGuyver That makes no sense. voyager has left the solar system. it it much farther than New Horizons.
Perhaps he meant at that time.
The wording is subject to multiple interpretations. Perhaps New Horizons has logged the most miles of travel, but certainly the Voyagers are farther away from Earth than New Horizons. Maybe the author could clarify?
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Don't be sad, Pluto. I'm not a planet either...
👌🏻😂
@@realsatoshihashimoto but your gravity still caught me (lol I'm sorry)
Check your pronouns
As of 2015, Voyager 1 was approximately 130 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth, which translates to roughly 19.5 billion miles while also in 2015 New Horizons was approximately 32 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth when it reached Pluto.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm getting old, and Pluto is still #9 to me. Just cause some younger person thinks differently than I, I won't change my mind.
Same.
I'm old too and grew up being taught that Pluto was the ninth planet. I didn't like the reclassification at first, but the more Kuiper Belt objects we discovered, the more it began to make sense that Pluto be "demoted" from full planetary status. If not, you would also have to consider hundreds of other bodies to be planets.
You growing old don’t change facts
The study of dwarf planets as well as major moons is known as "planetary science" therefore i think of about 23 objects when I think of "Planets". Pluto and Charon would be like, 18-19 or something
@@johno8817 amen brother it will always be the 9th planet. That’s is a hill I’m going to die on!
Pluto is a hair over 5 light hours away. At present it is 3.38 billion miles away, an incomprehensibly large number. New horizons took 9 yrs 5 mo to get there, and that's with a gravity assist slingshot speed boost from Jupiter, which reduced from 14 years to under 10.
Proxima is 4 light years away (and a bit more; .2 or .3 or .4). No spacecraft from Earth will ever get there. It would take 80,000 years at our present level of technology. That, btw, is how long the Hudson river will take to run clean again from the PCBs dumped into it by General Electric for decades.
Be just what you iz, not what you iz not... The one who doez this is the happiest lot...
We are still light years away from the technology to get man to pluto
Yes!!! Pluto getting love... Yeah I'm one of those that will always say Pluto is #9, baby!! Great video dude♥️♥️♥️
@@juanrangel6880 Pluto’s gotten way more attention since it was reclassified than it ever had before
@Theburkr good
Thanks for watching!
The issue with the reclassification of Pluto is easily defined in this way due to the makeup of the International Astronomical Union: the astronomers refuse to believe that Pluto is anything but a KBO, but the planetary scientists say that Pluto is a planet and always will be.
The reason why the shift occurred is because of how many of each discipline was available during the day they voted. There are *_THOUSANDS_* of scientists in the IAU, but being that the members are from countries from all over the globe, and in 2006, (pre-Zoom) it was next to impossible to arrange to have them all there on the same day, so ultimately, the number of scientists who were present to vote was only around 400, and astronomers were the more overwhelmingly represented on that day. (I had a friend who was a member at the time). The day may come again when the vote is retaken, but inertia is an amazing thing; it may not happen for years or decades or never.
And if the vote happens again , the vote will go the same way , pluto moves inside neptunes orbit , pluto has,nt cleared its own orbit , these 2 reasons are why its now classed a dwarf planet , and will be forever more
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
@@stevensmith797 All you just did was point out that a change in definition is why it is no longer officially a planet.
I'm with the author here on Pluto. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and makes little ducks, I'd say it's a duck.
Pluto has a multi-layered construction featuring a metallic core, an atmosphere, it's big enough to be round, not obloid or irregular, has its own system of moons, and it has interesting and active geology.
If that ain't quacking like a duck, I don't know what is!
Pluto is still a planet, is a dwarf planet, have atmosphere, moons and orbit the sun
Mercury has cleared its orbit of other objects.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Facts. It is a planet if it has moons!
0:30 they weren't "forced", there was absolutely no reason other than "but if we don't the solar system has 20 planets and that is to much whaaaaaa"
IAU: We can't have so many planets... Pluto is no longer a planet.
Me: So... what is it then?
IAU: It is a Dwarf Planet
Me: So you are saying that Pluto is... in fact... a planet.....
IAU: Nooooo... not like that!!
It’s not like they redefined planet and Pluto didn’t meet it. They decided they didn’t want Pluto to be a planet and tried to craft a definition that would kick Pluto out of the club but keep the other eight in.
Excellent info about Luto and the Alpha Centuri twin planetary systems 👍
Let's remember just how HOSTILE space is to humans and we can barely reach Pluto with current rocket technology and it will still take years. Alpha Centauri... forget it with current tech, sorry.👍😔❤️
you can TRY to 'down vote' Pluto all you want, but Clyde Tombaugh wasn't hallucinating the night he discovered the NINTH PLANET.
As you slingshot around the sun like the Parker probe, you could also probably slingshot around the entire solar system
“We still can’t say for sure”. But the International Planetary Union has some criteria for what is considered a planet and Pluto didn’t meet all criteria.
Horizon, gone farther than any other had gone before… Pioneer 10-11, Voyager 1-2; and New Horizons.
All the talk about how long it might take to get to Alpha Centauri is pointless. What will you do upon arrival? The only known planet (Proxima B) is tidally locked to its star (Proxima Centauri) and not fit for human habitation. Interstellar travel is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. We had better learn to take better care of the third rock from the sun and to live together in peace.
Until one day when the next super volcano erupts, or the next big asteroid impacts or the next Ice Age comes, all of which WILL HAPPEN at some point. Hunkering down on this planet and hoping for the best isn't a sensible strategy anymore than your supposedly 'impossible' interstellar travel.
Exiting and entering solar systems are not accounted for in this video. What is the gravitational speed once you enter the gravitational pull of a solar system.
Traveling there isnt tough, but bringing enough resources to survive the trip is tough.
My understanding is the time and distance problem. AC is 4ly away but would take over 4 to get there. We see it as it was 4yrs ago if we could send something at light speed. It take 8 years as in 4ys it get to where it was now and AC will have moved another 4lys away. So unless it is either moving less then light speed or moving toward us we never reach it unless we go faster then light. It's 2am going back to sleep to see if I remember direction and speed in the morning😴
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! We're currently limited by the speed of light, so it would take much longer unless we find new technology that can go faster.
We need warp drivers to travel in a realistic timeframe to other stars. They also need to be time machines to prevent getting to the destination in the distant future, relative to the place of departure.
Uh, no such thing Spock
@tomlorenzen4062 I know. 🤣
I believe the only way it is possible for a species to travel any sort of significant distance through space, would be to possess the technology to create their own artificial wormholes, a sort of a stargate. Obviously, we don't even know if that is possible, but the concept of a wormhole itself is allowed within the laws of physics. Something like an Alcubiere drive, or warp drive, isn't allowed as far as we can tell.
Imagine building a truly massive Vacuum Sunroom on earth just to test solar sails.
This was one of the better science fact videos I've seen in some time. I missed something though and it's because I'm not strong enough at math. My confusion occurred when the trip to Proxima B originally was going to take 3-4 years with the observer's going to be 9-10 years, but suddenly, with the light sail, it shot up to from ship time being 10 years to the observer's pov being in the millions. How did this happen?
It will take 50,000 years to reach the alpha centauri system using todays tech.
depends for who, light travels to Pluto and Alpha centaur just fine, in fact it for it it happens instantly, because anything traveling at speed of light doesn't travel in time - it experiences all the time and space it occupies at once.
Warp Drive is theoretically possible we just don't have the technology to build it.
What will going to Pluto do for us? A photo shoot. How much would it cost? A sh!t ton.
Remember...Star Trek already solved some of these problematic encounters...such as using a deflector dish, with very high output, to push away harmful particles, and the shielding that protects the ship...known as a 'deflector sheild'. Yes, such powerful sources, such as warp drive, is still extremely risky, and the equations is very complicated to adjust of any problems of such.
Then why is "Mercury" not a " "Dwarf Planet"?!
Because it’s “cleared its orbit” - meaning it’s gravitationally massive enough to absorb nearby small asteroids in its orbit’s vicinity. Unfortunately Pluto hasn’t cleared its orbit, as it’s simply a large kuiper belt object.
How cool would it be to get a satellite orbiting Pluto
Pluto is my favorite outer planet, or binary planet, or small planet. But imagine in the future having a Space Port on its orbit, like Deep Space 9.
Well these light sails look very promising. They are saying that you can get to a significant percentage of light speed pushing them with lasers. The problem is how to keep from hitting stuff. Basically space is empty space yet sticking a BB at 5% of light speed would destroy just about anything we can make.
Exactly, light sails are a promising idea for fast space travel. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I wouldn't quite put getting to Pluto in the same category as getting to Proxima Centauri ,a transit time of a decade or so vs 70000 years is a huge difference!Plus 4 other spacecraft have been further than New Horizons as the 2 Pioneers and 2 Voyagers are well beyond it.
Sub light speed looks more plausible if you drop human biology. The long times and radiation are no longer absolute barriers, though trade would still be basically non existent aside from long delay info exchange.
We will eventually reach Centauri it just won't be very soon but the technology is there but it needs to develop and progress a bit farther !
Instead of excluding Pluto, why not include eris?
Pluto will always be a planet in my eyes
the lack of spaceship is the biggest factor
You don’t need a 30 minute long video to answer this question.
The International astronomical union decided Pluto was no longer a planet and demoted it from a planet status, and then ingeniously reclassified it as a dwarf PLANET, wtf, makes no sense.
At the space shuttles speed. It would take 150 million years to get to alpha centauri.
Pluto identities as a planet
At current manned spacecraft speeds. It would take around 150,000 years to reach alpha centauri...
Traveling far in space isn't difficult. It's merely expensive and people aren't willing to put the money up to fund it.
Pluto was always my planet. I took it personally when it was down graded but…. What ya gonna do?
Pluto will ALWAYS be the ninth planet, full stop.
You don't have to go anywhere near 95% the speed of light, 10 to 20% is sufficient !
Ummm, Voyagers 1 and 2 have travelled significantly farther than New Horizons has.
I don't care what they decided, to me Pluto is still the ninth planet and It always will be and they can take a hike if they don't like it.
24:29. Certainly we'ved developed th technology by then to genarate a bowshock to repel such particles??
I was today years old when I learned about Eris… wth
The tyranny of distance.
Pluto is still a planet to me, I don't crap what anyone says.
Aw, I dunno. Maybe the DISTANCE!?
MAN probably will never be able to travel at the speed of light which that's what it's going to take to be able deep space and other planets.
ich alter pessimist würde sagen, die chancen stehen 1:4 mit so nem publikum dazustehn, wenn man zufällig leute von der straße nimmt
Simple answer: distance
People who can't tell you ANYTHING about Pluto: We hate astronomers!
Half of every Astronomy 101 class the Professor my ex-wife's uncle taught, which I actually buy after asking some of my friends their view and level of knowledge.
we did excommunicado a planet haha :D
This videos writing is all over the place here.
carbon vonixide?
laser and sail bases systems cant happen for now , politicly , any laser that can send anything to the closest star is a powerful weapon , turned towards earth you have a mass destruction system that can fire again and again , not a chance we will work together
Pluto,s a brisk walk away compared to alpha centauri
Pluto is the 9th planet.
We'll reach pluto before we see a youtube video about pluto that doesn't needlessly reitterate and explain pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf planet. In other words, not for a biblically long time...
I like how scientists claim. What's on another planet. Or what it's made of. Without actually going there. I guess I'm the only one. That thinks. Just because something looks like something we have here. Doesn't mean it's the same thing there. That is narrow minded two dimensional thinking
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Distance.
Pluto is 9 forever!
Short answer: Distance.
And also human beings not taking well high g-forces😂
Love the videos, but for us that are not versed in metrics measurements, such as in the US, can you give us distance in miles as well? Thanks!
Lol, we can formally define what a planet is but not a woman or man in 2025....
Bingo!
Thats just Americans. Don't lump the rest of us in. 😂
You are so clever! Run for Congress. Thune would love you.
@Larrymh07 is it too hard for you to understand
@tomlorenzen4062 Apparently, punctuation is a concept you cannot understand.
Errr, New Horizons has gone further than any other human made spacecraft has gone? Voyagers 1 and 2 anyone? Strange mistake for a space channel to make.
WTF is this shit? First off both Voyager 1 and 2 have gone further than New Horizons, and Pluto is suspected of having an ocean beneath the surface which might be home to life.
Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled farther, but New Horizons was the first to do a close flyby of Pluto and send back detailed images. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I don’t know when scientist are ever gonna understand. There are no rules. There is no scientist God making the 10 Commandment rules of science. There’s no mother nature God making rules. Freaky is as freaky does all over the universe.
I make wind
Who really cares ???? What would one do when they arrive ??? Such nonsense .
Let me save you all some time. They are far away and we barely have the tech to reach Pluto, and then can only do so with poor reliability. Reaching another star, well, I’d have a better chance of hitting powerball and megamillions 1000 times in a row for billion dollar payouts.
Short answer PHYSICS 😊
I swear this was written by AI. Whats with all the intro lessons to what Pluto is? Whats any of it have to do with the title? Should be talking about traveling and were getting a history lesson on a planet. Bad writing. 5 mins in and its still an intro.
Pluto launched a misinformation campaign on twitter about how it was really a planet and cried about recounts until it was re-elected as a planet
Its a planet to me. Dam school lol
It looks as if we are stuck on earth. This is as good as it gets , so let’s love each other and make it work. The truth is we are the naked third ape, treating the earth as an infinite resource. We dare to call our species : Homo sapiens sapiens , wise prudent man. The arrogance is unbelievable. Time to wake up folks.
News flash from the year 24,000! Jupiter is now spiraling into the sun because of the velocity stolen by New Horizons way back when. (Parody alert).
Here's a recursive fourth wall comparison. If the moon was 100 feet away from you l, Proxima Centauri would actually be where the REAL moon is. :)
Proxima Centauri would be 8 times farther than the moon's actual position, using your scale. Nowhere near 100 feet.
Stop taking about and just do it!
Tell that to the billionaire tax and budget cutters…
In KSP I just turn on infinite fuel. Why NASA or Muskie or Beezie no have infinite fuel? Peace!
It depends what are you driving, or flying...😂😂😂
Due to D.E.I I demand pluto be a planet i support inclusion and diversity
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Alpha centauri wont be the nearest star in 80.000 years,,by the time you got there,it wouldve been better to head for stars that WILL be closer in 80.000 years,like ross 128 or gisele 445.
Blahblablah....I refuse to believe we are as smart as we think we are.
Americans and russians are very imposible so europeans are this knoweledge very week
Let's face it. We're stuck on earth, so it might be an idea to start treating it better.
Difficult??? Hahaha try impossible!!
AI video.
What a STUPID question! Try DISTANCE!
The only way to travel that far, and fast and instantly, is upon our passing.
Our family and pets who have past, have already made that journey. They Reached the absolute end of the Universe upon that moment they left this Earth.
They all made that journey, (If they are worthy) , and reached that other Dimension where Dreams are Born.