The Interstellar Race: Who Will Reach Alpha Centauri First?

Can you imagine what the spaceships of the future will be like? Imagine that spaceships will use nuclear energy as fuel in the future! Would those spacecraft be fast enough to reach the closest star to the Sun? And if so, who will go aboard those spaceships? Who would be the first to reach Alpha Centauri?
Currently, spaceships, even humanity's most advanced and powerful, have many problems getting out of the solar system.
This is mainly due to two factors; the first is that the universe is vast, it is immense, and the distances that separate all celestial bodies are so enormous that they cannot be measured in kilometers but rather in astronomical units and light years.
An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Sun and Earth, equivalent to approximately 92.96 million miles (149.6 million kilometers).
The problem of going out
To date, no human-created spacecraft has managed to leave the solar system.
Technologies that already exist
In past videos, we have talked about the different technologies that could exist in the future to travel to Alpha Centauri. However, most of them remain in speculation as they do not exist yet.
Temporary dilation
Time dilation is a phenomenon that arises from Einstein's theory of relativity; in simple terms, it means that time can pass slower or faster depending on the speed and gravity in which you find yourself.
What technology will be chosen?
That said, considering the trip to Alpha Centauri will take more than 80 years, what technology would be chosen to do it?
1. Nuclear Fusion Propulsion
Nuclear fusion propulsion is a space propulsion concept based on the use of energy generated by controlled nuclear fusion.
2. Nuclear Pulse Propulsion
Pulse nuclear propulsion, also known as pulsed nuclear explosion nuclear propulsion, is a space propulsion concept that involves using controlled nuclear explosions to generate impulses and propel a spacecraft.
3. Solar sail propulsion
Solar sail propulsion is a theoretical space propulsion method based on harnessing the pressure of solar radiation to propel a spacecraft. It uses a very light and large sail or reflector, known as a solar sail, which reflects solar radiation.
4. Laser propulsion
Laser propulsion is a space propulsion concept that relies on using a high-powered laser beam to propel a spacecraft.
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00:00 Intro
1:38 the problem of going out
2:40 25.000 years to leave the solar system?
4:20 technology that already exist
6:10 time dilation solution + scheda
7:56 what technology will be chosen?
8:18 1. Nuclear Fusion Propulsion
9:15 2. Nuclear Pulse Propulsion
10:20 3.Solar sail propulsion
11:18 4. laser propulsion
13:50 What Will Solar Sail Propulsion Mean for the Future of Space Travel?
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[@nettlarry]

"Centauri Explorer to Earth! The data was wrong. No atmosphere here. And we're out of fuel. Bye."

[@joshDilley]

"Where are you going? Hello"

[@nettlarry]

"It's not that bad. There's only 10 of us left anyway - the rest died of radiation poisoning on the way."

[@mistamaog]

I don't get it 😢

[@kingthutmose-og9sq]

Sending supplies and fuel...be patient...we got you fam

[@leebuckley7436]

Getting up to speed is one thing but slowing down again is a bigger problem. As you don't really have space brakes, at the half way point you'll have to start thrusting in the opposite direction. This would add many years to your journey time as A) You'll only reach maximum speed for a short period of time or B) you'll not cap out on speed but spend a fair while coasting at a lower velocity

[@williamrose9783]

sadly not true maths can answer the questions of how long it would take too need to start slowing down and when would be needed. but making the speeds maths cant answer for

[@aberdeenkiko]

Not necessarily. Since, depending on where the ship is going; each star system already has its own travelling momentum across its galactic plane, plus each planet also has Its own already quite substantial orbital angular speed. Meaning that, once a ship gets going at the lite speed of 100k km/h, for example; then it's a matter of reducing to the same speed as the stellar object is already travelling, that is to be visited. Being that the average orbital speed of planets around the stars, that are in the vicinity of the Solar system, is of about 100k km/h, as well. And the problem would always be, the supply of water, for any interstellar space mission. Since, any nuclear propulsion system, would consume lotza water.

[@brucethompson7214]

@@aberdeenkiko 'lite speed of 100k p/h'? What are you talking about?

[@jessemills3845]

Until Artificial Gravity is made, space travel is ILLOGICAL!

[@limabravo6065]

Solar sails have been tested in earth orbit, and the Breakthrough Starshot program wants to send postage stamp sized "spacecraft" to the Alpha Centauri system, with miniature sized cameras and other gear, by shooting them with a large laser array getting up to marginal fractions of C.

[@Eric-zo8wo]

0:17: 🚀 Spaceships fueled by nuclear energy may be fast enough to reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. 3:50: ⏰ The video discusses the limitations of current space travel technologies and the need for new technologies to reach Alpha Centauri in a shorter time. 8:03: 🚀 Traveling to other stars requires leaving everything behind, and the chosen technology to do it will determine the journey's success. 11:33: 🚀 Laser propulsion is a promising technology for interstellar travel that uses high-powered lasers to propel a spacecraft. 15:13: 🚀 Solar sails are a revolutionary form of spacecraft propulsion that use sunlight to push the craft forwards, potentially allowing for faster and further travel than traditional rockets. 17:37: 🚀 The video discusses the advantages and limitations of the spinning disk sail and the concept of photon pressure in space. 20:56: 🚀 Scientists propose using solar sails and light beamers to explore distant stars at a significant fraction of light speed. Recap by Tammy AI

[@MisterTee2010]

Most of the so called experts can not even recognize Pluto as a planet. How can any of them recognize anything beyond that ?

[@damarysdingui]

Very interesting video.. Thanks for sharing, IC..💖

[@amangogna68]

Great video and information !

[@quannga99]

I pray that everyone will go to Alpha Centauri so I’ll have a little more room on earth.

[@jaysherriff3086]

Agreed send all the rich so we can just live out our years on our home planet

[@LeongGunners]

@@jaysherriff3086 Ever watched Elysium? That's what will happen to our home planet when the rich moves off planet.

[@jaysherriff3086]

@@LeongGunners I haven't. But I will now lol

[@MrFlazz99]

Solar sails - extremely thin materials - great idea (if feasible and only within the inner reaches of our solar system anyway), but what about the problem of particles hitting such an extremely thin sail at high speed and tearing through it? I assume that the scientists developing such materials have considered this, but I still can't help wondering if a hugely expansive sail presents a huge target for very-fast-moving tiny particles (either as it heads towards them or they head towards it). We worry about meteroids hitting satellites nowadays and a satellite is quite a small target by comparison. Regardless of propulsion systems, I just don't imagine that humans will ever make such a journey unless some totally whizzo scientist comes up with some (with hindsight) incredibly obvious but also off-the-scale amazing system for bending space without needing all the energy of a star to accomplish it. Long time durations of any journey in space are impractical for humans - such multigenerational travellers would lose bone mass, their offspring would grow up having never experienced gravity in the first place and hence develop differently altogether and humans in space would become jelly blobs incapable of adjusting to any planetary gravity once they reached another star system. Hence no such journey is practical unless it can be accomplished within a few months or a few years at most. Time dilation would only contribute if the travellers could reach significant sub-light-speeds, which resurrects the matter of the propulsion system (or bending space).

[@rewar5870]

Who ever gets there first still has to get back to be able to claim the honor of adding Alpha Centari rocks to their space rock collection.

[@curtcoller3632]

Interstellar space is not the space between stars! It's the space between the (somehow defined) outer regions (borders) of solar systems. Speed is the problem. Even with light speed we are way to slow. And currently we are far away from light speed.

[@rafiparadise]

Most awaited video

[@ThomasHuayra]

Why are you stating repeatedly in the video that Alpha Centauri is the closest star to our sun? Is Proxima Centauri not a thing anymore?

[@m7floyd]

I think the most challenging part is how you are going to de-accelerate! You can't just rotate with that kind of speed right?

[@tcornell05]

maybe forward thrusters as well?

[@m7floyd]

@@tcornell05 Yeah but that's going to take a long time right? Still challenging. Unless we create a HAL 9000 and a long term sleeping suite, well, I guess that's a given! lol

[@ehta2413]

Speed is not the problem, the acceleration is the problem. Stable acceleration is about the same as going stable speed from physics point of view. Any added angular velocity is only going to affect the portion that you use to spin the craft, so doing 180 degree spin is not very hard regardless of the velocity you're going, changing the velocity or it's vector (direction) is going to be the hard part. 180 degree spin can be anything from 0.1-100g's and even human body can easily take roughly 10g's depending on the direction of the spin.

[@m7floyd]

@@ehta2413 Hmmm, just learned something from you today, I knew I had to take the 3rd Physics class lol Maybe I am too old and forgot everything, no sarcasm here.

[@ehta2413]

@@m7floyd Glad I was able to be of assistance. You're never too old to learn something new if you're interested in it. I spent 11 years in university studying astro-physics and geology, and would not trade a single hour of from that :)

[@NatureGuy18]

Obviously the only correct option for the first crew is to send a group of orphans. They don't have any family to miss them, and they can take their friends with them.

[@user-iq6cc3df3l]

I believe that humans will be extinct before we have a chance for manned missions outside our solar system. If we colonize Mars maybe we have a chance as then we won’t have all our eggs in one basket. But I think we’ve been putting the cart before the horse, mostly because of movies such as “Star Wars.” To me, I think we should first have a small colony on the Moon since it’s easier to launch from there. We really should’ve done that already. Heck, you could even have Internet since I think a round-trip request-response would only be two seconds of latency, not bad when you’re ordering new Moon shoes on Amazon. Forget about next-day delivery though. But then get to Mars. Then talk about maybe one planet further away. If we can do that then we can talk about going 4.5 light years away. Until then it’s nothing but an extreme stretch goal. But once again humans probably won’t exist long enough to make it happen.

[@leebuckley7436]

Makes perfect sense. With the moon's gravity only 16.6% that of earth you will use much less fuel starting your journey. Higher payload or quicker acceleration and overall reduction in journey time if you want to take the hit on weight

[@jimmcneal5292]

Lol why would we go extinct?

[@jaysherriff3086]

Theoretical science.... unfortuanately its just that.

[@jaysherriff3086]

​@@jimmcneal5292because we are only just slightly more advanced than apes. All the rich arent threatened enough to journey to the stars theres enough money on earth afterall for the greedy ones.

[@jimmcneal5292]

@@jaysherriff3086 we aren't "slightly more" advanced than apes, we're much more advanced. And once we get the FTL drive, we'll be able to travel to other stars easily

[@patrickmulenga3045]

In all this you are ignoring how to deal with radiation and space debri at high speeds

[@senanur1983]

Simple. Force shields.

[@kevinflick61]

I believe if it were possible to travel to other stars you would have to be able to adjust your speed according to hazard you may run into on the way so whatever needs propulsion you use you will have to be able to adjust your speed in my opinion.

[@billyivwen]

This is one of my favorite topics, but it will never happen.

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

i'd think a solar sail needs to be onboard as a back up to deploy later, or to use initially, but another power source should be available as well as a secondary to the sail or as a primary to the sail; some sort of anti-matter, or plasma/pulse , or nuclear fusion, obviously fossil fuels are too heavy for the amount youd need, not fast enough and not replenishable once in space, but our deep space long term travel would need more than one power source in case one fails, needs repair , or just for most efficiency at any given time and location period. id also be worried about a solar sail getting torn up by the harshness of space, the radiation, small rocks and asteroids hitting it.

[@Texas240]

You didn't talk about solar sail craft deceleration.

[@jasonwebb1882]

Wasn't there a TV show and a movie about this? Danger Will Robinson, danger danger. Lol

[@badbunny2107]

I already explored that star system in starfield and its really interesting

[@mikey33409]

Using newer ideas to make a unique and an exotic space time drives to cut the vovage time within a humans lifetime or use a deep space probe which would long term robotic probes .Of course that would mean a long connection from the earth to where ever the probe would be a light year or even ten light years. Thank u ms

[@tiddiesattic]

Why can't the lasers be on the back of the ship shooting the sail on the front?

[@bebotmaat1557]

I have already answer you readers about Proxima Centauri B that Aliens in that planetary system had already reach Earth way back 1961 to 1962. Intact Spa. Barney and Betty Hill was there to meet these Aliens from Proxima Centauri B.

[@kingthutmose-og9sq]

Taco bell, mixed with really bad gas plus a butane torch = nuclear propulsion.

[@user-ph8gc1qi4n]

I think we should probably stop all that. We haven't really noticed too much life out there yet and we've looked pretty deep in space already it should be teeming with life. So habitable planets may be a rarity. Meaning it's more than likely there's plenty of intelligent life looking for new homes.

[@rewar5870]

I agree , but it's not the lack of life that's spooky , but the potential for it that's a bigger problem. The human body is a virtual symbiotic relationship between us and all sorts of micro bacteria that lives with us essential for our survival. This relationship is the result of millions upon millions of years of evolution here on earth. You don't just step off your spaceship onto a planet with life , It's almost certain that the results will not be good.

[@richardmercer2337]

I remember ECHO-1!! (no details though)

[@artic6015]

You have to include anti matter as an form of energy. This will be a hundred years or so ( my best guess based on current research).

[@greglaws9953]

Excuse my ignorance on the subject but I have a question regarding time dilation. Sadly you didn't get specific with regards how much slower the astronauts would age on the trip to Alpha Centauri travelling at 10% of the speed on light. You did say a century would pass on Earth when they got back. This confuses me. They way I see it the spaceship leaves Earth on a round trip of 84 years travelling at 10% of the speed of light. Logic says the Earth will have only advanced by 84 years by the time the spacecraft returns BUT to the astronauts it would be way less years - though I don't know how many. If we send something Alpha Centauri at 10% the sped of light surely it must take 42 Earth years to get there?

[@calvinmasters6159]

If it happens at all, the machines will go first, just to confirm that there's someplace to go. If all we find is moon-like or mars-like, then no deal. We'd only send meat if we can stand on a planet in shirtsleeves.

[@davebradley4498]

If you have no loved ones, leaving earth and all the crazies might be in a person's best interest. Where do I sign?

[@maxmanus4637]

Unless we can somehow place "fuel stations" along the route. But other entities enter earth by portals. Then this could be posible for humans too?

[@simulatedpilot3441]

I don't think I would trade the support of all of humanity for my friends and family. But then again I've always wanted to travel Maybe I don't need any of them

[@herbertfawcett7213]

Pick a system, metric or U.S. or use both ,but quit this sloppy switching between them!

[@brianarbenz1329]

If they are like the Mercury era astronauts, they would not miss their loved ones as much as they'd miss the groupies.

[@limabravo6065]

So according to NASA the voyager twins are in interstellar space

[@texavon6168]

Apparently you haven't heard of pellet beam propulsion.

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

why do we keep thinking of reaching other galaxies ?? we have many many many solar systems and potential for life in our own galaxy and traveling around our own milky way would be more do-able in theory, before intergalactic travel.

[@reubennakpodia9441]

You mean to say we have so many places we can visit in our solar system! Planets around us have multiple satellites as well that we can explore. Alpha centurion is in our galaxy! Nearest star to our sun.

[@untouchable360x]

It will be either SpaceX or Chy-na.

[@terranceparsons5185]

Distances can only be given in AU or LY. Proceeds to tell us how long these units are! 😁😁, but of course i know what you mean!

[@charlesw6199]

If 2 years pass for the astronauts and 100 years passes on Earth then why bother at all? In that 100 years, Earth may develop an FTL drive and just scoop the astronauts up on their way to Alpha Centauri.

[@Bk77183]

how does the spacecraft apply the brakes though if it achieves 1/10th the speed of light, once it reaches its destination? Need technology to come to a stop unless you want to detonate nuclear explosions in the face of the spacecraft lol. Same with a laser, how will it stop? it might take 100+years just to slow down the speed of the craft on top of the amount of years it takes to get to the destination near speed of light.

[@TheStobb50]

I will, in fact I’ve already been there, in fact I’m from there 👀🤣

[@jamesbrock5784]

The first interstellar travelers will have relatively. Not the ones that where alive but family descendants.

[@barrywhite8747]

Being practical it makes sense on top of trying to find a better energy source to also consider designing and building city ships that would allow the crew and their families to live fairly normally as they make the trip.

[@NBC_NCO]

We will eliminate ourselves before it becomes a possibility.

[@jimmcneal5292]

Lol how?

[@NBC_NCO]

@@jimmcneal5292 WWIII.

[@jimmcneal5292]

@@NBC_NCO ww3, if happens, definitely won't be the end of civilization

[@badbunny2107]

I recommend yall start playing starfield you can visit alot of star systems and planets the game is so addicting and its based on research from nasa so the planets are accurate

[@reubennakpodia9441]

Games can never be reality

[@adrianrobinson7953]

Yeah we ain’t getting there by fuels!

[@kevanhubbard9673]

My money is on nuclear Fission as at least we have some understanding of that whereas Fusion is always just around the corner,a corner we never go around.Even with Fission nobody has ever built a rocket powered by it so even that is around the endlessly moving corner.

[@miketaylor7023]

We need a whole star for free fusion reactions. They can make a spark of fusion for a fraction of a second but it takes 300 units of energy to make one unit of energy . I don't think fusion is possible without a star. The mass of matter and concentrated energy is needed for fusion reactions. That's concentrated energy being heated and compressed to make sustainable fusion reactions. As creatures they're just on the con trying to bilk research dollars chasing these fusion reactions that were never possible in the first place in the absence of vast quantities of concentrated energy or matter. It can't be done without a star to do it naturally. And the sun produces it. We just have to find and develop ways of harnessing all the free energy being released in these nuclear explosions. Dyson spheres are another one of those things that will never be built. They could easily break being made out of anything we can build. And how are they supposed to harness every single megajule out of the star being released and store the excess heat and energy?

[@jimmcneal5292]

The problem of fusion is not that it is too difficult to develop, but that it probably doesn't provide enough increase of specific impulse to justify its development.

[@chuckmaddison2924]

Well, we do know who it wasn't.

[@miketaylor7023]

We can't go close to the speed of light . Then there's a speed limit on how fast living matter can go before it has to turn into light to reach the lightspeed barrier. The incredible gravitational forces of added velocities on living organisms might be insurmountable! Now we're talking about Fermi Paradox walls. Barriers that any potential alien species must reach that inhibits technical and technological advances beyond a certain level. There are countless Fermi Paradox walls that represent past,present,and future extinctsion events that should increase with time. The more time that passes increased odds may indicate certain extinctsion event possibilities of probablistic nature. Another form of Fermi Paradox walls will be technical and technological barriers resulting from various types of impossibilities attempting to make leaps in understanding the mysteries of the entire universe. And barriers to better technology development. In space travel vast distances of alot of empty space seperates trillions of solar systems accross the universe. So many issues need to be solved before more advanced steps can be made to reach Alpha Centauri over 4 light years away. And alot of those steps are like links in a chain that need other links of technical and technological engineering to all work before distances of 4.3 light years could be reached. Life support,propulsion,logistical support,resource availability,(lowering or raising) gravity to match Earth's to keep our life forces intact is a top priority in advanced space travel and part of better health in artificial man made environments. There's too many difficulties and problems in space for our species to overcome. Whole new ways of looking at reality have to be developed . Too many to count. Just looking at one small item is our concept of the money system. The whole ideology behind it has resulted in a net negative return for most individuals because that have to incur net losses for the system to continue while driving extinctsion probabilities upwards at a faster rate. For the money system to work there has to be some rules like eliminating unlimited wealth. Then you've got to grow up and realize that there are, in many instances situations that do occur ,where the idea in our minds about money is too much of a fantasy in emergencies like hurricanes and space travel. Life support in space is a seperate problem beyond space travel too. Industrial capabilities are diminished and non-existent in deep space especially when spaceships are far away from resources, extra technology, and technical support. And the money system is nonexistent. In space money has no use or value at all. It's a complete fantasy. Then there's two different types of space exploration . Human or machine? Humans on deep interstellar voyages would have many more requirements to maintain life support than machines or an AI will. But any type of interstellar voyage will be costly in resource consumption. That's yet another type of Fermi Paradox wall that may impose restrictions on any attempts to navigate space to the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond . Even in our own solar system it will make more sense to explore the more interesting planets first and bypassing other planets and stars to save resources for longevity and increasing the time to develop new ideas,new technologies,and newer technical abilities. And whatever knowledge is'nt developed may limit our abilities. So far, at this date in time i can imagine that maybe there could be a few scattered remote mining operations with joint AI and human operators monitering extractions of raw materials. That may be the limit for our species capabilities in space. And it's really dangerous to move x amount of raw materials around the solar system which could affect gravity amongst the bodies of our star. Anything and everything could easily be fraught with peril !!! I estimate at least a thousand years or more for our species to improve a little in space. But not by alot! I don't think we need the money system at all in various situations. In certain circumstances over time it might be okay to have a financial system but with modifications like limited wealth. A modified financial system with stricter rules limiting unrestricted accumulation might be viable in some conditions. But in other situations in time there always arises potential circumstances where it's better to eliminate financial considerations to improve life support. There always comes those times where we won't have time to waste energy playing with stockmarkets and doling out cash for products in emergencies. The money system is just a waste of time. The only thing being added is more complications.

[@jaysherriff3086]

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[@jaysherriff3086]

@@Schwainermitai lol agreed.

[@miketaylor7023]

@@Schwainermitai Well. You aren't going to alpha centauri until you start paying attention to everything that's happening within yourself and every little thing around you. And even then it's unlikely.

[@miketaylor7023]

@@jaysherriff3086 Well you look more like a gang member than a sherriff. So which one are you and what did you want to say?

[@jaysherriff3086]

@@miketaylor7023 sherriffs my second name and said what i got to say.

[@miketaylor7023]

The money system does more damage than any good it causes. It feeds your psychosis that you've got to get up and go to work in the morning. See. The problem with the logic behind the money system is there's really no limits on how much work we can do and limits on how much we can accomplish as a system of lifeforms on a planet. That's advanced thinking. And that's not going to be a common occurrence. So if the potential work we need to accomplish is infinite and we still have to fail to accomplish anything meaningful on a specieswide front over time.... Deep time or less than that..... Then the workload is infinite and still we won't succeed with our current progress. It means the work that is needed is infinite and still can't accomplish our goals by using the irrationality of the money system........ So if so then that means it makes more sense to phase out the financial systems and trade in my opinion , and replace maximum work with a far more efficient way to make everyone's wealth within a narrower range of closer but not precisely equal. To minimize criminal activities naturally. And the real high end thought processes are to reduce work as much as possible and spread the load around more on real necessities getting the most done for the least amount of effort and resource consumption in the form of energy. But that's really advanced problemsolving. To increase wealth while minimizing work and energy expenditures. I'm feeding everybody the gold basically by explaining it to anyone who will listen. I would aim to gradually decrease the Earth's population to increase the spread of wealth to the few millions or very few billions still around while increasing the timeframe of long term alien species existence. They may not make as many discoveries as often . But with more time and a slower rate of energy burn and consumption alot more can be uncovered with added time to think about the roadblocks that arise consistently. It takes alot of time to evolve. And solutions take alot of time. Some ideas take decades ,centuries, or eons to solve. And some things never get solved. We might have to get used to being stuck in our solar system. For instance.

[@waffentrager594]

I don't think we want a Chernobyl in space

[@mingiasi]

so why havent anyone built a literal "speed deemon" ? keep slingshotting that thing until near lightspeed?

[@Bear-form]

Orbital mechanics and material stresses prevent that.

[@houstonpromotion]

Last and least would be to find a wormhole to get us there , but I wouldn’t mind a one way trip to Alpha Centauri

[@gregoryjohnson874]

The Earth is due for another reset. Humanity doesn't have time to develop technology to get further than the Voyager probes have. As Carlin said, the Earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. 😂

[@dinmorsamushimushi]

Civilisation

[@russellgilbert3453]

Want be me! 😂

[@monteira77]

AI will reach alpha centauri first, a spaceship without pluming is lighter and faster.

[@williamrose9783]

the universe is full of radiation why not find a way too tunnel it into a radiation power engine surely this is the only way forward??

[@jasondashney]

That's quite literally the entire point of this video. The narrator just talked about it the whole time. The sun's rays are a form of radiation.

[@harrykuehn2421]

No one, East enough to answer.😂

[@sunnyclimes4884]

I think we should concentrate on our solar system. The stars are really an impossibility, maybe in a few hundred years. Anyway, what would happen when we got there what if there's nothing of interest. And the food would be a problem, thousands and thousands of pounds in weight. Enjoyed it.

[@jimmcneal5292]

We can send automated probes and unmanned terraforming ships

[@RickTheClipper]

Absolutely NOBODY!

[@mattschmerbeck8375]

Nobody.

[@johnthompson7420]

don't any of you delicate geniuses consider the time to accelerate and decelerate?. sure , somehow your wizard magic gets you to some fraction of the speed of light. but even you wizards aren't proposing instantaneous acceleration? => human milkshakes....this whole thing is such nonsense i am ashamed to comment, but jesus h.....

[@richardbarrett8365]

Place all WOKE politicians on a spaceship and launch it in that direction. Maybe they will reach it and maybe they want. Either way, the rest of the people left on earth win.

[@dicktracy790]

Sure sure, right after we terraform and colonize Mars

[@danielhunter50]

No one to much radiation.

[@stevenpristoop3236]

No one!!!

[@PlummySack79]

Who writes this? " Fast enough to reach"? I like the concepts of your videos but despise the American flavour scripts, as in extremely poor grammar and superfluous fancy words, it just sounds ridiculous at times. USE GRAMMARLY