I don't think you fully understood the video. It's not about technology, it's about physics. Even IF you could travel 90% the speed of light, it still wouldn't be possible. Do you even understand physics well enough? The only thing that would make this possible is the be able to travel much faster than the speed of light and not even doing it by travelling through the medium of interstellar space. Technology? Basically what you want is faster than light travel and you'd have to be an idiot to say such a thing is possible. No "worm holes" are not a thing, they are purely theoretical.

Not completely. We can do it with Newtonian physics. We need fusion power though but we can see that's happening in the sun so that isn't a theoretical possibility it's real.

Yeah. Title is just click bait.

Physics dont change. Rules of the universe don't change.

That's a lot more optimistic! 👍

Some may have and keeping it secret from the rest.

This is true the govt know about zero point energy but it’s not in the media because it breaks our current understanding of physics

Amen

Just think about how much the government isn't telling us

@@arnolddooley5919 No one will ever be able to tell you what they themselves fail to understand.. If they operated from a position of truth, you would know about it..

"Trump is not going to be president" - President Obama

physics didn't provide fundamental barriers to this.

Too much of you can do whatever you want

​​@@MrGottaQuestion what physics are you referring to? With computer technology and hibernation, we could travel to the nearest stars. The question is how safe we need it to be. Physics absolutely doesn't hinder us here. It just takes time. Building large enough ships we could slowly accelerate a ship to a fraction of light speed and then start deceleration half way there. Getting to the nearest star could probably be done in a century or so. There is no fundamental physics barrier about space travel, what so ever. If there were, the universe wouldn't be teeming with solar systems and galaxies like it is. The video straight up conflates "interstellar travel" with "I took a trip to Proxima Centauri last spring". That is not what anyone mean by interstellar travel.

this nothing have to do with law physics that will never change you talk about human technology not the universe.

However, we do have our limits

Humans do noting. Humans had to wait for Prometheus to discover FIRE. Humans have to wait for a god to bring us to the speed of light.

You are failing to take into account the distances involved here........believe it or not, no matter how great you think humans are,........the universe is REALLY BIG........and human beings are REALLY SMALL.........twenty thousand years from now, someone or something will examine our historical record and say.........can you believe that once upon a time, a large number of seemingly intelligent beings, actually elected DONALD TRUMP to be their leader.....?????????????

@@davidglemboski258 I cant deny humans of our time are small minded and limited.... yet compared to those who lived 15,000 years ago we are clise to gods... maybe it will take another 15,000 years before we have grown enough to take that next big step but we will take it, if we don't wipe ourselves out first!

I mean I get it to have low expectations especially with current technology and political issues. I mean survival’s sake the planet will face resource limits then we might explore space or other solutions to accommodate those resources. After that then new tools and technology will be made or discovered to be faster like cpu chips to reach the stars or whatever.

Exactly, that's why all our electric power and our cars and airplanes are fueled by perpetual motion machines instead of those old fashioned methods that require fuel.

@@medexamtoolsdotcom Ok, but you didn't discredit his point thought: two days ago it was impossible to travel faster than on horseback, yesterday it was impossible to travel faster than on a train, today is impossible to travel faster than on an airplane... Tomorrow? Maybe tomorrow will be impossible to travel faster than 1% the speed of light.

A young man asks an elder on the other side of the river: “How do I get to the other side of the river?” The elder looks up and down the river and responds: “You are on the other side of the river” Snare drum. We all laugh

einstein was only in his mid 20s when he stated that it is impossible to exceed light speed

@@VisiblyPinkUnicorn The obvious difference that for some weird unimaginable reason you are ignoring is that there never was a law of physics that said you cannot go faster than horseback.

It's not about people our children AI computers will.

The financial and scientific efforts needed to travel to other solar systems is better spent on saving Earth from the human effects on climate, pollution, over-population and social conflicts.

@@gmg1985 that’s why humans multi task.

266 million years trip with the kids in the back seat Saying. “ are we there yet “. LoL 😂 Sounds like a fun trip

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Mike, aren't you guy who, when he was a kid, wanted to be the first man on the sun?

@@elessartelcontar9415 lol

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Fantastic answer 😉

found it too and its not small its 1k fold mistake as the number is in m not km

that's right it's not just about speed, everything human build that we use in all aspect of our daily lives are not designed to last more than few years. This is what those scienfiction films always fail to address. You can invent some kind of hibernation for 200 years to get to the next habitable planet on a spaceship. But that spaceship cannot take a break, it is working hard everyday to stay functional. So far no human technology can make simple computer, power supply, circuitry that can last even decades without total replacement. Just look at the ISS, or any any human made space object now, without constant maintenance they all break down completely in just few years or months even.

I never say never, but right now its impossible to travel to another star, imagine hitting a small rock at the speed of light

That would be 10% average. To get the average, you need to accelerate well past the average, then decelerate at the other end (assuming you want to stop to have a look around). Accelerating a mass requires energy, and the mass increases with velocity. An enormous amount of energy is required to get there in a hurry.

Remember that time goes slower the faster you move, according to Einstein. So it may be possible that it is 43 years, for the dude in the shuttle it isnt.

@@kamikazekrush3758 A grain of sand at the speed of light would wreck a spacecraft. At that speed even individual hydrogen atoms in interstellar space becomes an issue.

Way less than that I’d say. By 2100 we will be in S

we cannot travel at the speed of light because we are made out of mass

@@alen380 what if you were able to harness enough energy to create some type of magnetic field, creating a pocket inside an anomaly that is used for travel?.

You know how a dolphin rides the wake of ships. Right in the pocket, an eddy if you will. Can we generate something that folds space like the bow of a ship and ride the pocket as well?

@@praxis6172 I guess that what you are saying is related to a future IV or V type civilisation and it is probable in a distant future, we humans have made a huge step forward in technology in the past 100 years so I could agree with your argument, but still by the time humans do that both you and me will be long gone hehe

Flying, just as flying really fast don't violate the laws of physics. We are never going interstellar, not as organic beings. Unless our consciousness can be transferred to synthetic bodies, we as a species are doomed to stay right where we are.

so you are saying that after 119 years we will discover warp???

@@adeelliaqat5899 No he is saying we might sometimes in the future. Also it doesn't have to be warp it can be another technology. I forgot the name of the show, but basically sometime in the future people can transfer their mind to a chip and a different body so we don't need faster travel if we can send our consciousness to a remote location.

@@happy_thinking Time to give the bong a rest... may want to lay off the Star Trek reruns also.

It's always been possible to fly through the air. Physical reality doesn't change just because men don't understand it. That said, the laws of physics clearly prohibit interstellar travel.

I have respect for you, chocolate rain man. But we know enough about physics to be certain that nothing with mass will ever travel faster than the speed of light, and so while we may eventually get to other stars, we will never have real time communication and thus never have a cohesive nation/empire. The more realistic possibility is that we extend our lifespan (trans-humanism/singularity) to the point that waiting a few million years to receive a reply to a message wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But warp drives/FTL? Nah. Never gonna happen.

lol. I’m afraid it would be a lot worse than that. The snail would slither a thousand circles around the world before we made even one light speed trip around the Milky Way.

for starters we could very well settle for something like 0,3 of the speed of light . more than 10 stars are within 10,5 ly away from us . which means it would be possible to make a trip to them . trip to alpha centauri would only take circa 14 years at 0,3 speed of light . and engines 0,1-0,3 of the speed of light are already debatable (or at least possible in theory) . we don´t need to colonize the entire galaxy any time soon , we just need to build good enough engine to get us out of this rock and to colonize at least closest star system , that way we don´t end up being wiped out by a single catastrophic event . from there we can further develop our technology , we will have literally hundreds of thousands of years to improve once we are no longer just a one planet species .

you have to temporarily change dimensions....the 'material' world does not behave like the higher dimensions....

@@tracedog27 Yes, you are right, but you have to consider time dilation. When you travel at the speed of light, time seems to stop from your perspective. So, if you want to go to Alpha Centauri, which is around 4.3 light-years away, the trip would only take a few days from your point of view as a traveler

Lightning speed is actually slower than the speed of light. But it is true, the Milky Way is about 180,000 light years across.

In order for you to retain self, your brain would have to be included in that cyborg, and it still ages. Transferring information from your brain does not transfer you, just a copy of you.

It's literally never going to happen brother. It's time to give up hope

No one said "traveling at the speed of sound is impossible" 1000 years ago 😂

@@MrShenanigans28 It will happen my friend. Try explaining FinFet/GinFet processor technology to a Hunter Gatherer or a Roman. That same discrepancy might be greater, the same or a portion of: "The Subspace Field"/"Hyperspace". Eric Lenz and the people at NASA's Eagleworks themselves might be the cavemen of a future society in terms of propelling hundreds of years from now. "Anything sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic". ---Arthur C. Clarke 1962 "Everything is impossible until it's not" ----Jean Luc Picard 2337

We know nothing. We only know about 5% of what there is to know. Dark Matter (22%) and Dark Energy (71.4%) surround us, yet we have no idea what they are. We SO don't know that we just call whatever it is, "dark." Maybe we just need some more time to learn as we're just infants yet...

I agree. Give us a problem to solve and we will. This entire video assumes that we will not advance any more than we have to date. That is wrong.

@@ConcreteLand how many years and billions been spent on a cure for cancer

@@ConcreteLand in 50 years our natural resource oil will be depleted, do we have a solution to this?

@@noujaadw I heard that about 50 years ago.

Resach NASA's Alcubierre Warp Drive.

See my post above. We will never do that, there is no reason to in first place.

@@SJR_Media_Group Research NASA's goddamn warp drive I mentioned.

You are wrong Steven.

@@dalethelander3781 Thank you. Link to NASA's 'warp drive' please. I want to read about it.

comment proves you dont understand E=MC2

No offense but you simply don’t understand. Humans mastered the manipulation of basic physical materials and chemical reactions many thousands of years ago. Today’s tech is no more than minutia of the same physical contortions. For us to master near light speed travel is the equivalent of a fetus learning Mandarin while still in the womb.

@@andrewwilliams9419 And you try to look smarter than you are, we know shit of how the universe really works and what is possible or not.

​@@Mircea076 we know it clearly. Absolutely. Comletely. Forever.

@@Mircea076 That comment makes zero sense. The equation means to accelerate any amount of mass to the speed of light would = ∞

The financial and scientific efforts needed to travel to other solar systems is better spent on saving Earth from the human effects on climate, pollution, over-population and social conflicts.

@@gmg1985 The good news is that said scientific efforts are going to happen whether people like you like it or not.

No, we're not stuck. We will one day travel the stars and different galaxies.

@@arlequin241 No, we will not. The speed limit precludes that. We won't even travel to any nearby stars. Chances are, we won't even get our act together and rid ourselves of capitalism, and therefore we'll suffocate on this once-beautiful planet that we've managed to ruin.

The religious state of mind would have had us stuck on discovering fire to this day. 300,000 years ago a religious mind would have said God did it that's all we need to know

The problem is with human evolutionary nature and mortality, we will kill ourselves before we will have the technology to travel interstellar. It's just all hypothesis and fantasies. That's why we have no solid proof of aliens visiting us from another star system. All species will kill themselves or exhaust all their resources before they can get advanced enough to defy their evolutionary biology that bounds them to their local system. The universe don't care about our dreams and fantasies. Millions of species has died out before us, we are not that special just because we evolved higher brain power. Comparing horse buggies to man on the moon is not in the same ball park. We can achieve that easily within the laws of physics. Interstellar space travel requires new knowledge and technology that that pushes the laws of physics to its limit and the most important thing, our biology to survive such travel. If I'm a betting man, I would wager that mankind will extinct ourselves waaaay before we can survive interstellar travel.

Your grandfather could just wait for new technology, as you see today. But time travel or travel beyond the galaxies is another matter of fact. There are physics laws you are no able to break. This video is talking about that. Not just technology as you mention.

I won't refute you, but I'll respond with a quote from my physics professor back in college: A “law of physics” is merely our best guess so far of how things really work. They get broken all the time; that is, in fact, the only way physics progresses: by refutation of conjectures. Conjectures that survive lots of careful attempts at refutation achieve general acceptance and are often confused with “truth”, but they are always provisional, and we assume they will eventually fail in some context.

@@gstcomputing65 You're right but so many time people has trying to break Relativity and still we are under their rules.

I've got news for you, every single thing that was impossible in 1900 is still impossible, and everything that is impossible today will be impossible in another hundred years. There is a difference between IMPOSSIBLE today and INFEASIBLE today. But there really are things that are impossible. And those things will never be done.

according to guy who made the video yes. But I would say, probably everybody is expanding their reach, at 99.999999% the speed of light, but they're taking it slow. A combination of that and SETI is simply not sensitive enough to draw any conclusions yet. They would have to be able to pick up accidental signals such as weather radar on another planet.

The most probable aliens would be some kind of quantum robots, not any naturally evolved being. And both unlikely

"Doesn't this also make it unlikely that any aliens will ever visit us?" About 11 million aliens have visited the United States and most of them are still here.

Not Aliens, but Alien AI or hybrid Aliens. It's a question of time until we become hybrid beings with a bunch of artificial organs in our bodies that will expand our life expectancy and intelligence.

That's a contradiction in terms.

True :)

@@johnhitz1185 No, there is Physics and there is Metaphysics and no, Metaphysics is not about "feelings" XD

UFO literature seem to point to use of magnetic fields for propulsion and an ability to manipulate space and time to travel at high speeds. Maybe this is something worth exploring.

The definitely didn't mean that

I think you've won the argument and also sided with my theory. if we ever do reach another star system my guess is that it'll be on an at least moon sized, if not planet sized sphere that we somehow stear like a boat.

@@qweqqweq2090 It’s one way to do it, but not necessary.

Earth is a spaceship

I suppose that's true..... BUT.... you'd better hope the solar system doesn't ARRIVE at another star in this journey, because that would be rather bad news for any life in the solar system.

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Actually, no one ever said that. From day one, man has watched birds fly.

@@jamessullivan4391 People, not birds, learn to read, and yes plenty of people said that, infact a journalist in new York times wrote just weeks before the Wrightbrothers actually managed to fly that man would never fly, atleast not for between 1 to 10 million years.

@@wiseomg Did you ever see Planet of the Apes? Charlton Heston proved flight to the apes by making a paper airplane and throwing it. Do you honestly think people of a thousand years ago and even 10,000 years ago didn’t simply understand the intuitive physics of watching insects a birds and realized that your lift potential from wings, let’s say, plus speed must compete against your weight or gravity? Shit, I was five years old and tried it with “home made” wings and realized I was just too damn heavy. But I understood at that tender age that there was no barrier or law of physics preventing me or animals around me were doing it. It was just a flaw in my design. I needed counteracting energy to the force of gravity. You cannot honestly believe a journalist who wrote an article once and assume the great thinkers of Ancient Rome, China, India, Egypt or Greece didn’t contemplate how to overcome the struggles while arrows and rocks were slinging everywhere in warfare and motherfucking birds were doing it too. It was only a question of engineering. So the ancients figured out Pyramids, aqueducts, gunpowder, geometry and that the earth is not flat but no, no flight is obviously not possible. Pythagorus and Euclid could not conceive of such a thing.Hot air put into a confined space, like a ballon delivers lift and sufficient force to counteract gravity. I once heard from a journalist that I need to wear two masks while driving in my car alone to protect me from CoVid. Uh… okay. I would go with science and simply say that flight was never defying the laws of physics, like saying going beyond the speed of light/causality, and was a simple matter of achieving the engineering skills to produce it. Read “the Flight of Icarus” in Ancient Greek mythology and see that a boy with feathers held together by wax, but he flew to close to the Sun and they melted, is an achievement of understanding that “we simply cannot do it yet,” not that it is impossible unless you hold religious views that somehow banned it. My own faith never “banned” it. So to close, just use a little common sense here.

@@jamessullivan4391 You said "Actually, no one ever said that. From day one, man has watched birds fly." That mankind trough the ages watched birds fly have nothing to do with the comment you were first answering, wich was There was a lot of people who said we (mankind) would never be able to fly and they ofc were wrong, i even pointed out a spesific "brainiac from the new york times saying this in 1903 only a few weeks before the Wright brothers made the first flight, look it up.

Ahh, okay. Got it now. Mispellings and wrong prognostications have lead me to believe that you don't know shit. No offense, I have to leave this thread to argue with smarter people. Take care.

Yeah humans have practically made it a job proving the impossible possible. People have been doing the impossible for thousands of years lol just a matter of time

But we cannot break law of physics, And even we travelled for thousands of years , we would evolve for space and not for terrain land with gravity

@@aegisurjagas2298 Yet ... We can’t break the laws of physics, yet. We may find that we don’t have to break them, just bend them to suit our purpose.

@@aegisurjagas2298 the laws of physics are like anything we’ve learned….. it easily changes with new knowledge. We literally see things behaving in ways we can’t explain. Look historically at how many times the mainstream consensus of what’s a fact gets completely turned on it’s head by a new discovery. So especially at a time when our actual government has confirmed recording uap objects breaking the laws of physics lol not saying they are aliens, just saying they are literally recording objects breaking the laws of physics as we know them in multiple independent systems at the same time. Even if it’s just a natural phenomenon…… it shows we have a lot to learn

I like what your saying and I agree. Right now these are barriers we cannot break and in time I'm almost certain we will. And when we do it will be a long time before we realize it worked meaning interstellar travel. We will naturally not start our anywhere near a tenth of speed of light and even at the speed of light from our prospective hear on earth well we'll not know if the trip worked until whatever agreed upon distance in the test. Either way for the folks back here on earth will need patience

Exactly! Humans can be so thick!

Its impossible to build a tower that high. Your analogy falls apart, I'm afraid.

@@abloogywoogywoo The analogy is accurate. Your understanding of it is not.

@@Daniel-jm8we we haven’t built a tower that high. space elevators are impossible because of physics. space is full of radiation as well, so you can’t stay there for very long.

@@Daniel-jm8we A better analogy would be, the Chinese man who doesn’t believe we can built a rocket (fireworks) big enough to take us into orbit.

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Nah, it is possible to travel trough universe very fast says psyhics we know today....and what about physics of tommorow.

@@kvarnerinfoTV Yes, Alcubierre demonstrated there's nothing preventing the warping of space to achieve faster-than-light travel. The problem is the energy required to do it would be something on the order of what you'd get from a black hole. So, until we're able to create artificial black holes, harness their energy, and use them to power an Alcubierre Drive, we're not going anywhere; or at least not going anywhere very quickly. If we're serious about colonizing distant worlds outside our solar system in the near-term, it's going to have to rely on generation ships or some form of cryosleep / hibernation / suspended animation.

@@JohnDoe-zl6qw energy requirements for a alcubierre drive are being smallaer and snaller with every new paper. I am quite positive that in next few decades we will be able to lower it to acceptable levels. Also we will soon have tech to reach near light speeds so closest stars will be far closer...

@@kvarnerinfoTV The power requirements may be decreasing, but reading deeper you come to realize the power requirements are still (A) astronomical relative to what we can produce today and (B) rely on something that is currently being called "negative energy". With regard to (A) the original calculations called for a ball of antimatter the size of Jupiter to power the Alcubierre Drive. That's since been revised down to one the size of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Sounds reasonable, right? Until you realize the only anti-matter we've been able to create has been in particle accelerators/colliders. In 2010 the Large Hadron Collider created a total of 38 anti-hydrogen atoms worth which lasted 0.166 seconds. More has been produced since, but still in equally infinitesimally tiny quantities. We're a long way off from producing tons of anti-matter that will remain stable, let alone that could be safely stored and transported to be used aboard a starship. Also, there's no such thing as a free lunch. It takes energy to power a particle accelerator/collider. You don't get to create energy out of nothing using such a device. The energy you wish to store in anti-matter has to be energy you put into the accelerator/collider. The amount of energy stored in a Voyager 1-sized ball of anti-matter exceeds the total energy output of the entire human race the world over at current production levels. So what do you propose? We all stop using electricity and burning coal, natural gas, and oil for a year so a theoretical warp drive can have enough fuel for a test flight? Then there's the economic burden. It's estimated 1 gram of anti-matter has been produced in total by all experiments to date that have attempted to do so...at a cost of one trillion dollars. At a launch weight of 1,797 lbs, a Voyager 1-sized ball of anti-matter would cost $815,105,542,800,000,000 (that's 815 _quadrillion_ dollars). Where's that money coming from? With regard to (B), we have no direct evidence for "negative energy" yet. It may not even exist. Alternately, it may turn out to have ties to Dark Energy or Zero-Point Energy. Regardless, we're still a long way off from even being to able to construct an experiment to witness it let alone harness it (if it even exists). I'm not against the advancement of scientific knowledge and technology and would very much like to see us achieve some form of propulsion to take us to the stars. However, dreams must be grounded in reality if you ever want to achieve them. There's far too much dreaming and not enough grounding when it comes to these discussions, with a flippant disregard for the overwhelming technical, engineering, social, and political challenges it presents. We are not even remotely close to being able to build a working Alcubierre Drive in our lifetimes. I'm not saying don't pursue it; I'm simply cautioning one needs temper their expectations and to be more realistic with regard to the timelines involved.

Never say you never know because you never know never.

Tell me something: If we do an experiment today to measure the weight of a cubic meter of iron and the experiment tells us that a cubic meter of iron weighs 7,873 kilograms, do you think that in the future a new theory of physis will be developed such that when we weigh a cubic meter of iron suddenly it weighs 20,000 kilograms instead of 7,873 kilograms?

There are many possibilities, of course. But the video is making a general statement based on the likelihood of those things happening before we are obliterated by either ourselves, a virus or local catastrophe, or some outside force like a meteor is quite low.

@@icadoriogorgeousiano9454 The weight of objects change according to which planet they're on. Thats old news bro.

I think, that the main problem is the definition of "we". If we widen it to our creations like robots and AI, maybe even our minds recreated as AI, then all those arguments are not applicable. 400 years at 0,1% c to Proxima? For an artificial intelligence it is absolutely no problem. For a digitalised human mind it could be Star-Trek or Star Wars or whatever experience it chooses. All you need to do is to change the time perception. With years passing like secunds, it would be just a five minute trip (I would rather choose an hour as a year to have a chance to read some book and explore my virtual Millenium Falcon at least ;)

Just build the spacecraft like a rocket with several rotating deflectors and pulverizers at the front. The diameter of the cylindrical spacecraft should be as small as possible. The spacecraft can be made longer. Build them like a pencil. If one tip breaks, sharpen it again. The payload should be near the end of the pencil.

Stop the same way you accelerated, numbskull.

@@marajevomanash a space ship traveling half the speed of light that hit a 1 gram rock would create an explosion bigger than any nuclear bomb, there would be no pencil to sharpen

And what will you do when you get there 😮

Yeah, "just."@@marajevomanash

Vegas has moved just as much as Vega. The bigger problem is knowing where you will be.

Trajectory to Mars and other astronomical objects is planned based on its location in its orbit around the Sun by the time we get to the destination. It is possible to predict the movement of nearest stars in respect to our own or in respect to the centre of the galaxy, so it should be possible to chart a course, accurately predicting its location by the time we arrive. Even working with old info, we should be able to predict the current state of the star in the present VS. the apparent (X ly in past). Unless there are clear signs of a star going supernova or it being on the other side of the galaxy, 1000 or even 10 000 years is just a blip on astronomical scales so it is unlikely for a star to disappear in that time.

@@ilmarssalna8900 Uh, the light from Mars reaches us in 2 MINUTES.....Yes, we can account for that and predict where it is going to be. You could probably even make assumptions about things with 100s or 1000s of light years away. But You cannot know with any reliability where something is going to be or even if it exists if that light is BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD...

Motions of stars can be predicted just as the motions of the objects in our solar system, assuming you're trying to reach a reasonably close star. If your destination is so far that you're worried your target star having gone supernova by the time you arrive I'd say you've got other problems. :') Conveniently the same laws of physics preventing you from observing the "present" state of a distant object will prevent you from reaching it...

Probes. We would send probes to cut that useless flight out of the equation if traveling faster than light were possible.

WELL Then WE Will JUST Have To WATCH This SPACE (Pun MOST DEFINITELY Intended!!!) To See IF That HAPPENS ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

I don't even think humanity has the ability to "destroy" itself either. I think we overestimate how powerful we are collectively.

No one built a fission power plant shortly after fission was discovered. Fission was confirmed in 1939. The first chain reaction, necessary for generating power didn't happen until 1942. Electricity from fission didn't happen until 1951.

@@MrVenona 9 years, as far as it relates to construction of a nuclear plant, is definitely less than 100 years.

@@AlexBerezovskyJr You stated "a dude on the other side of the country, filed patent for atomic energy and built a power plant shortly thereafter" Your claim has been demonstrated to be false, unless you consider 12 years to be "shortly thereafter" and "the dude" is the U.S. government.

The technology isnt even the biggest problem .its our own body .

So "one of the men present" was wrong back then, that means everyone who says something isn't possible, is always wrong too? If I say perpetual motion machine isn't possible, am I wrong?

How do YOU know that? We could have aliens living amongst us right now. think about a civilization out there somewhere that has a BILLION years of evolution on us. Do you actually think they are as STUPID as we are? Yeah we really haven't been around for very long at all... not compared to cosmic time. Also think about the odds of us as a civilization living at the SAME TIME as another civilization located wherever. The odds of multiple civilizations LIVING AT THE SAME TIME is really tiny. Sure. think we'll be around in a million years? and remember a million years is but a drop in the bucket compared to cosmic time. yeah Earth has been here what, about 4.5B years.. well that's 4,500 M years!

The ones that meet will be really lucky, maybe two habitable planets in one system.

Why do you think a race capable of interstellar travel would be "malicious"?

@@grumpyou1138 I didn't assume that a race capable of interstellar travel is malicious. I assumed that some intelligent races are malicious, and of those, some are capable of interstellar travel.

@@ganymede3141 Only on this planet.

If it took 40 years to reach the nearest star, and we sent colonists to the Proxima Centauri system in 2050, then we'd have humans living in another solar system by 2090. That's... not very long compared to the length of human history.

@@adammclaughlin845 While there's without doubt a sheer infinite number of Earth-like planets or moons sprinkled allover the observable part of the universe, the chances that one of those happens to orbit around one of the closest 1000 stars is probably quite small.. and almost certainly there's none in the A Centauri system. So this would most likely be a very educational one-way trip much better done with unmanned robotic probes. (Not even talking about the energy/propellant problem, sufficient means of life support, high energetic cosmic radiation and collisions with cosmic molecules/dust/micrometeorites...)

Not a remote possibility, but the most likely scenario (says someone who studied astrophysics). It's not just not possible to move any mass beyond the speed of light "to date", we have not observe this happening ever, even in the most energetic cosmic particle accelerators observed (active galactic nuclei, GRBs, supernovae), and if it were possible at all you'd think that those objects, which output energies a trillion times higher than the largest particle accelerators on Earth, would be able to do it. Even completely massless particles such as photons (eg. light) travel only with "c", not faster. So if it were possible to somehow exceed this fundamental speed limit, it's not something that could be achieved with the help of any of the known types of matter or force fields - and if there are particles that indeed do move faster than 'c', they have yet to be found, and guess what - your or my protons/neutrons/electrons etc forming carbon, oxygen, hydrogen etc. atoms of organic or inorganic matter as we know it are definitely not among them...

Physicist Miguel Alcubierre proved that mathematically, warp drive is possible.

@@richfrazier8756 Alright, it's mathematically possible. And how much energy do we need to do that ? Is it even a conceivable amount ?

still haven't reached mars, and we've been to the moon ONCE 50 yrs ago... and we don't live in space at all, the international station is utterly dependent on earth, we don't have self-sustaining habitats in space. Humans will destroy themselves and the planet long before any interplanetary travel becomes a reality

@@100percentBroonese for now look at the short amount of time it took just to fly around the earth as a species. A thousand years is nothing to the universe. Just think about the advancements in the next hundred thousand years. Our understanding of physics will be beyond what we can even comprehend right now. Many of the things we know about the universe may even change with the James Webb telescope depending on what data it sends back to us within the next decade. A new era for men is approaching and it’s exciting. I’m just sad that we won’t see it. Being optimistic and finding ways to take on complex issues is always how man has advanced exploration and science.

@@zwanzikahatzel9296 it’s all in time. There is no way we know what the future holds. You got to realize that our understanding physics and the universe as we know now are nothing compared to what we’re gonna know 10,000 to 100,000 years from now. James Webb alone may change a lot of our understanding in the next decade. Let mankind find a efficient way to mine astroids and planets for raw materials. Speculating I think space exploration will no longer be motivated by government budgets but by private entities seeking trillions in profit that they will sell to governments. I think remote drones like the rovers we already have will be sent to work locations with returnable containers. Once enough raw materials are harvested they will wait for the proper planet alignment then take off to return to some sort of consolidation point in space say some private station similar in design to the ISS just material focused rather then science. This will be the first baby steps to colonizing the stars. Don’t forget depending on how the merger of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy goes we have no clue what new planets and stars are going to end up within our reach. I think without being optimistic we can’t advance the science to make humanity and interplanetary and inner galactic species. Just wish we could be around to see it.

The universe and multiverse is a totally different subject.

It won't take 5000 years. Probably only 500 years

Yeah,even interstellar dust would destroy the ship completely in a few minutes at light speed.

I think if we were to find the ability to travel the distances the first place we are heading is where there might be other life. It seems to be rare, certainly the search for Habitable planets alone would bring them to our solar system at some point, Earth is a jewel in a Galaxy or rocks. We can discover big planets around other Stars I bet people 1000 years ahead of us can do much more.

@@streamofconsciousness5826 there is life out there,it would be arrogant and narcissistic to think we are alone but please remember ,as on our own planet,life does not always have to breathe oxygen or be Carbon based. So it’s quite realistic to hypothesise,in fact it’s essential, that our planet would not be attractive to most of the other life forms out there.

And what about Astral Projection?

Who cares

@@Heart2HeartBooks Sounds like "whataboutism", so who cares?

Artificial gravity is easy, you just get a large cylinder and spin it, and shielding is pretty easy too, we can already shield against everything that we need to, it's just expensive in mass to get all that shielding on things that need to be launched off earth

Love this Dream.

If we can’t travel the stars, which is unlikely, we can travel the Solar System.

​@@ebonaparte3853we can travel to other stars but it will take ALOT of human lifetimes. Like a 1000 years or more. Space colonization is less cool than movies made it out to be

@@OfficialDenzy Fusion and antimatter rockets could allow us to reach our closer neighbors faster. And warp drives could open up the galaxy to us.

@@ebonaparte3853 I already heard about Warp Drives but even if its possible, I think we would reach that technology when we already colonized so many stars. I heard Warp Drives take so much energy like the entire universe? I am not sure about that and its not even 100% that it will work. I have never heard of fusion and antimatter rockets. If you can explain or give a link that explains how those works, that would be nice

Perfect analogy!

When the Russian space agency sent a probe to Venus, several decades ago, it took our only known surface pictures of Venus, for about a minute or two or three before the very hot surface of this planet melted this USSR probe. The average temperture of the COLD SIDE of Venus can melt lead.

Well hopefully humanity can adapt to a Venuisian biology fast due to the climate crisis this little blue speck can become another Venus. I don't think that humanity will last another 150 years. No one is willing to give up their gas powered vehicle and the government is not doing enough to combat the environmental problems, we will not find any miracle that will take carbon out of the atmosphere or clean up the environment, sorry to say it but that is a sad fact.

Venus is a poor candidate for colonization. The 90-atmospheres worth of crushing pressure at the surface, carbon dioxide atmosphere, sulfuric acid clouds, and 800-degree Fahrenheit surface temperature are just the tip of the iceberg. The real problem with Venus is the lack of plate tectonics. With no outlet for the planet's internally generated heat through volcanism and subduction fault lines - hallmarks of plate tectonics here on Earth - that heat builds and builds. Eventually the entire surface of Venus, no longer able to contain the heat, turns molten and is completely resurfaced every 500 million years. Over the course of 100 million years it cools enough to re-solidify. Then the cycle starts all over again. Mars is not without its challenges, too, but they are far more easily surmounted than Venus' will ever be.

No point in messing with Venus, too close to the sun and it will die out thousands of years before the earth does.

Why would you be content with a climate destroying trip to the moon to fulfill your jollies ?

You know what was impossible 2000 years ago? A rocket? So what’s to say what’s impossible in the next 2000 years

@@jonathangleason72 I agree, we will never know what may happen way in the future, but it's unlikely we will be around for a long time anyway. It's the law of physics that you can't travel as fast or faster than the speed of light. But lets say you can, even 100 times faster, it would still take to long to get to the average star in our galaxy. As they say, even hitting a speck of dust, would destroy your space craft and I'm telling there is a massive amount of dust out there.

@@Renegade040 With no gravity to talk of in space you could build a deflector screen in front of the ship as big and thick as you like without having to worry about weight a pointed one even better

@@keithwickham8558 well you could be right, but this concept just will not cut it. This solar deflector/sail idea is extremely slow, would take years to get to any where near the speed of light. It's the law of physics that nothing with mass can ever reach the speed of light. A lot people don't realize, in the terms of the size of the universe, the speed of light is very very slow. Just recently they took a photo of our black hole at the centre of our milky way galaxy which is 26,000 LY away. With our fastest space craft, it would take 450 million years to get there, better take a cut lunch with you.

@@jonathangleason72 I don't give a bean about the next 2000 years xD

Live long and prosper my friend

Known Physics allows it. It's possible.

Well, even Star Trek never really fulfilled their 5-yr mission.

ST is FICTION

@@thegeop5906 I know. It just kind of captured my imagination as a kid and even as an adult.

It is almost guaranteed that the life in board any space ship won’t last long as space itself is lethal to life Astronomers found out recently that there are many pockets of space which look empty but are made up of dark clouds with unbearable temperatures and radiation which no life can get thru, the list of dangers in space to any life is endless, there are literally 6 billion way space can and will kill you So yes the video title is right, humans will NEVER travel interstellar but the AI humans make in the future will since they are not vulnerable biological creatures like their creators

On the topic of trade, why would trade even be necessary? There is an unimaginable amount of resources out there, a small colony of 10,000 guys in Bumfuck nowhere system would possess 1000 times more wealth then then entire earth combined does now. Trade would be a novelty, the only meaningful trade would be that of ideas, and ideas can be transmitted at light speed via laser communications

If you’re thinking like this then you’re really ignorant when it comes to astronomical topics

@Uhavenoright toask such close minded thinking - you act as if we know everything there is to know about everything. Space travel is definitely more complex then atmospheric travel, sure, but thats not to say that its impossible. We barely even scratch the surface of what is known about our reality, space, time, mass etc - the universe is filled with alot of shit we barely even understand and i dare say things we don't even know exist. The answer is out there somewhere and we will find it, eventually

"It is easier to imagine the end of the world that it is to imagine the end of capitalism." - Attributed to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Zizek

What's toxic? NASA's SLS uses LH2 and LOX. The by-product is water. The solid fuel in the SRBs isn't toxic, either.

So, what you are suggesting for example your cell phone will not change in the next century, I am sorry to break it to you but like cell phone our space ships will improve in the next century and beyond to settle distant areas in our solar system my friend. Another thing no one on our planet is traveling by sailing ships, that kind of travel is so 19th century!

Yep and plus the Size of Earth isn’t good.

those will be the first steps, followed by others, for hundreds and thousands of years, the key is to survive and "get some eggs out of this one basket".

Star travel is impossible for two main reasons. Majority of stats that has been viewed don't exist anymore and are merely illusions but also that even reveling at the speed of light you'd need millions of human generation to reach the closest star system.

@@douche8980 "even reveling at the speed of light you'd need millions of human generation to reach the closest star system." no. not at all. It is 4.2 ly away. You would need 4.2 years. If you could travel at 10% of light speed you would need 42 years, it's really rather simple.

And I would like to add, if we can go to one habitable exoplanet in the galaxy, we should be able to colonize all of them in an exponential process. If we can go to proxima and establish a presence there, we can eventually develop that and turn it in turn into a launchpad to a system under 10 ly from there, etc, etc. With each system we take our capacity to grow increases too. So we get a positive feedback loop of continious growth until the entire milky way is taken. The most interesting number is the average of the minimum distance between habitable planets in the galaxy. Because you are severely hampered if you have to use Mars like rocks in this process compared to habitable planets.

@@dekippiesip exactly! I figure we can at least average 10% of the speed of light at colonizing the galaxy. It's round, and our path will be in both directions around the outside of the galaxy. The inner parts of the galaxy are the most dangerous for life. Multiply the diameter of the galaxy by pi times 10 and you have an approximation of how long it will take to colonize the galaxy. We'll also spread out to many other minor galaxies, and be ready for Andromeda when it gets here. There's one last thing. The problem with habitable exoplanets is they are likely to already have someone or something living there. We may only send scientists if simple life, or trade and diplomatic personnel to those with advanced life. Small planets, moons, and asteroids are the best because they're resource rich, minable, and we don't have to deal with existing life or an existing civilization.

Yep, the problem with this video is it assumes that we need to get to the destination quickly. If we were able to mine resources in space we could theoretically have a multi-generational space ship. Give it whatever time it needs, 100 years, 200 years, ect. However I think if we were able to live in space for a really long time we may not even need a planet and could just live in space. But of course there are benefits to living near a planet system. Additionally the video commented on how we wouldn't be able to established trade routes if the distance too that long to conquer. But there isn't any reason the colonies couldn't be independent from earth and our solar system. Also his proposed solution to the fermi paradox isn't necessarly the correct one.

@@dekippiesip we cant even take care of our own planet, let us learn that first.

@@noujaadw we can do both at the same time buddy.

The gravity being lower is not a requirement for life. Well, it would be if we were chickens because chickens ate dependent on gravity in order to swallow because they have no muscle for swallowing; they would starve to death with a mouth and throat filled with chicken feed! If they were to drink water the convential wisdom is that they would drown. Astronaut Scott Kelly spent almost a year in space and after he returned he had many horrible health conditions but nlonly one caused by lack of gravity; bone loss, during his first 6 months in space his bone mass increased 10% but during his second 6 months he suffered bone loss. His identical twin brother, Mark, also an astronaut, was used in comparison. Scott had many more health problems than Mark. One was that Scott’s carotid distending and thickening shortly after his arrival in orbit and remaining that way until four days after his return. The surface gravity on Mars is only about 38% of the surface gravity on Earth, so if you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 38 pounds on Mars. The moon's surface gravity is one-sixth of Earth's so a 100 pound person would weigh 16.6 pounds there. Neither of those cause health problems, its only in near zero gravity that the bone loss occurs and it affects all astronauts, it just affected Scott more because he spent almost a full year in zero G. NASA requires astronauts to do both aerobic and mon-aerobic exercises religiously. There have been several astronauts and cosmonauts that had a difficult return to normal after going into space a long time. Now with the required exercise it is no longer a problem. Link to an article on Astronaut Scott Kelly - time.com/5568522/kelly-twins-year-in-space/

I forgot to include this: A transit through space will not include any fast-travel portal or wormwhole. These are speculative notions, and a part of what is known as "Science Fiction", and not even remotely available. Wishful thinking, that's why Science Fiction is, and just this: A story not able to be regarded as "true" and/or possible.

Yeah the thing everyone forgets because they're so focused on theoretical propulsion systems is the fact that even if we managed to go fast enough that long-distance space travel was on the table, the REAL problem is radiation shielding. Until we solve the very, very, very real problem of figuring out a practical way to keep our astronauts from getting lethal doses of radiation on their trips, we're not going anywhere. Our ISS orbits well within the Earth's magnetic field. But radiation was an extremely serious concern on the trip to the moon, even though it wasn't publicised. An inopportune solar flare or other gamma ray event would have had catastrophic consequences for the Apollo astronauts. We just chose to roll the dice and hope for the best, and it worked out. But longer-distance travel will absolutely not have that luxury. And lightweight, durable, and effective radiation shielding is every bit as difficult a problem as high-speed theoretical propulsion.

@@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg Your explanation of these facts is better than mine, and I appreciate it. So now the challenge is to get people to stop believing in Elon Musk's "solutions" to our mutual problem. He and others are neither scientists, nor pay quality attention to scientists WHO ARE EXPERTS in the field of the risks of inter-planetary "travel".

you make excellent points

decelerating from near-c velocity is no picnic either @@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg

He's lying

A little more crushing for ya: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rcqAkrh1uNnZoqM.html

Because we can. Spam in a can. And we can re-spam ourselves to any place we want to go and I think that's a good idea. Think about that dandelion and all those little parachute things when it goes to seed. We should follow the cues of nature.

this is the point that many miss: we already have a space ship / space colony / habitat - and we are not managing it very well

Please tell me which plane goes 25,000 mph...Yep, you got that part wrong...🤔

@@bryanpayton1168 starship, or have your forgotten there’s a variant for earth travel

@@RandomGamer-qy6ys, not a plane dude.

@@bryanpayton1168 ok, but I’ve still made my point, if u want I’ll edit it to say ship instead of plane

@@bryanpayton1168 correction,, the gen 5 fighter uss sr-71 black bird

Maybe. An even bigger problem to me, though, is the highly anthropocentric notion that technology is somehow inevitable. And it's not, as every other organism on earth except humans demonstrates. Orangs have been here as long as we have or longer, yet still no language and no tech. And now that we've spent the last 75 years making absolutely sure that the rest of our rather enormous solar system is utterly sterile the idea of ubiquitous life is starting to seem a bit absurd. It is so sterile in fact that we are now reduced to hallucinating about floating organisms in Venus' atmo, buried organisms on Mars and ones floating in the dark in subsurface oceans on a few icy moons. Not saying that's impossible or not worth examining, just that we were actually thinking a century ago that there were advanced aliens living on Mars. How far the fantasts have fallen! We could see their canals, I tells ya!

Yes. Everyone who thinks there is a paradox because we don't see aliens doesn't understand how far apart everything in the universe is, and how slow the speed of light.

What’s even more scary is that it has taken us 4+ billion years to get to this level now, yet one meteor strike could wipe all that progress away. I think that’s part of why we may never develop anything capable because we would need a massive amount of time coupled with the hope that WE also wouldn’t have destroyed ourselves.

@@ebukaobieri Well, there's eugenics and elitists on earth too. All this doom&gloom stuff I tend to always assume is highly overhyped. Eugenics doesn't happen by itself you know.

They are here for a long time. The Pentagon admitted it in congress. Fermi is no longer a paradox

Well said!

Dream on. Humans are too puny for prolonged space flight. We are dependent on too many things not easily found in space. Not boldly going anywhere.

​@@leonardgibney2997 Elon Musk: Hold my beer.

@@dalethelander3781 Everything l hear about the cosmos tells me, "don't come here". You just have to view say, Anton Petrov's posts to get the flavour of it. People who blandly say men will reach the stars aren't thinking it through. I could write an essay on why they never will but it would take too long. In synopsis we're too puny, distances too great, ambiences too dangerous. In the KZfaq videos debunking Elon Musk they showed how his plans to reach Mars don't add up. There are too many unknowns as well.

Agreed & well said. This garbage reminds me of that 1899 Charles Duell quote: "everything that can be invented has been invented." If you think we are incapable of the type of achievement that could lead to interstellar space travel, you've obviously not been paying attention to either the 20th or 21st centuries. Can we do it now? Of course not. In 100 years? Perhaps not. To say that it's impossible in light of all the progress that has been made is both ignorance and pessimism of the highest order. Get off my video feed, noob. lol

time isn't real, other than real system of measuring real increments of movement of matter.

1. No, absolutely not, special relativity hasn't received a single correction or adjustment yet, literally all of Modern Physics and most hypothesis extending known physics require special relativity to hold exactly. You are taking out of your ass. 2. Total bullshit, light moves at the speed of light, period. The speed of light doesn't depend at all on wavelength and of course this isn't how warp drives work. You are taking nonsense. 4. The explanation given in this video was imprecise, and your inference of a supposed C^2 speed limit from mass energy equivalence is a blatant non sequitor, again, you are taking about stuff you don't even made an effort to understand, pure dunning Kruger energy.

Dont forget, we need to visit other universes, so we definetly have to learn faster than light speed travel.

yes, it would be even better to find "good for us" uninhabited planets cuz it would be "rude" to move in on inhabited ones, even with lower life forms, but maybe microbes would be an exception, if we don't catch a "severe cold" there! ;D

There isn't any solar system pls open your eyes and look up

@@davidsheckler8417 The only thing I see when I look up is blue sky?. I'm talking about far beyond that. If they aren't routinely going to the moon how can they get anywhere else,that's if they actually went to the moon.

@@equinox95 You can't go beyond that

@@equinox95 of course they didn't go to the moon, they paid all the 400,000 NASA prime and sub contractors' workers to keep quite about it too. "Fortunately" they are mostly passed on now. I think they each got about 50,000 bucks, for their silence; that's what made the Apollo budget so darn high (20 bill.)!! Facts, man, facts; glad you agree with me! ;D

But HAVE we discovered any? Or just "theoretically discovered". Scientists seem to have great trouble distinguishing between theory and fact.

James Webb can see them at a different level of clarity

@@jondoc7525, If JW scope does discover an intelligent life image it would be worth the 9 billion dollars spent.

@@maximuscomfort the capability is but so many meteors we need to make one on the moon like they want to

@@maximuscomfort I doubt it would. How can it be?

Or the scientists working on nuclear power ion propulsion or laser sail technology make a practical drive powerful enough to launch hundreds of probes from the moon to adjacent star systems. We may not get there this century, but there's no reason we can't have probes on the way by then. Exploring the galaxy will of course take a lot longer, possibly a million years, but that's not never. Basically we just hop from one star system to the next until we run into friendly aliens to trade with.

@ApplesWithPeanutButter that's why we should start with nuclear powered ion drives and laser sails. It doesn't get us to FTL, but it can get us to the next star system 4 to 5 light years away. We don't need to travel a thousand light years to a star system when there's one less than 5 light years away.

I am alive and I saw what can only be described as a starship!

This is an idea that proposes that technological progress must be continuous and infinite. It is a faith that forgets how nothing we have done in the past is remotely like interstellar space travel and physics is not cooperating in this matter. Breaking the sound barrier, or flying or crunching digits with a device are simply not comparable to interstellar travel. We worship tech as we once worshiped fire. Fire has its limits. So does tech. We were supposed to have space colonies by now. We even could. But we don't. There are reasons why.

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Scary? Or a relief? The scourge of humanity is currently contained to Earth, whew. What's scary about that?

Uhhh not true. There’s definitely ways to travel interstellar we just aren’t there yet

@@lionelmessisburner7393 we’re never traveling to another star. Modern science acting like false religion did in the past. Delusional

I find it much more scary that because of capitalist greed we seem intent on destroying an environment that we have evolved to live in.

And worst, the speed of light, although fast to us, is REALLY REALLY SLOW compared to the universe. 2.5 million years just to get to the nearest major galaxy. Interstellar travel is extremely difficult, intergalactic is just impossible.

Lmao

It's not just the engines. You need some sort of super shields or forcefields as even a tiny rock would get massive energy when impacting your ship.

@@mihair2854 It would need a powerful radar. Radar emissions would travel at light speed regardless of the ships velocity. The ship would be at maximum velocity in the voids between systems were the chances of significant mass being in the flight path would be astronomically low.