Why Colonize Alpha Centauri And Proxima Centauri?

The proximity to us played a fundamental role in making Alpha Centauri the subject of science fiction speculation and that it was mentioned in literature and video games.
In fact, Alpha Centauri, even in reality, would be one of the very first destinations of a possible future interstellar trip manned with a human crew. In Babylon 5, a science fiction television series shot in the 1990s, the system, simply called "Proxima", is one of the major colonies of the Earth Alliance; in this planetary system, orbiting around Proxima Centauri, there are three planets, the third of which is also the largest colony in the alliance.
In the 1960s television series Lost in space, a family of space settlers attempt to colonize an Alpha Centauri planet.
In the DC Comics comic series, planet Rann originated in the Alpha Centauri system, until it was teleported to Polaris; in the Rann series it is important as the foster planet of explorer and hero Adam Strange.
In the world of video games, one of the most famous examples is that of the Civilization series, which places as one of the victory conditions that of sending an expedition of colonists to the Alpha Centauri system. In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, victory is given by the outcome of a competition between different civilizations for the conquest of the planet Chiron, orbiting the star. In the various Transformers series most of the time the native planet of the alien robots, Cybertron, orbits the aforementioned star.
Science fiction and video games aside, why colonize the planets of Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri?
First of all for its proximity: that of Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to ours, just 4.3 light years from the Sun: one light year is the distance traveled by light in a year in a vacuum, and is equivalent to about ten thousand billions of kilometers. This means that, traveling at the speed of light, it would take us 4.3 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The Alpha Centauri system is a triple system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun in mass and size quite close to each other, known as Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red dwarf star, known as Alpha Centauri C or Proxima Centauri. The name Proxima, from the Latin, means "closest": and in fact, to be precise, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, which is 4.22 light years away, and not Alpha Centauri.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:19 Its Proximity
04:00 Characteristics
06:14 Discovery
09:40 Fundamental Question
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[@thestrangerofmountains]

Man I get sooo sad when I realize that I wont be alive when we reach the stars.

[@raybilverstone2066]

Tell me about it I’m 67 and I definitely won’t be here .the sad thing is I won’t be here to see all the good things that’s going to happen out there in space.

[@hxndxrs0n815]

@@raybilverstone2066 I don't care hahahaha

[@thestrangerofmountains]

@@raybilverstone2066 cheer up man the artimis missions are coming up in 2023. And SpaceX Mars cargo mission in 2022. Well atleast you will get to see something cool happen in your life time.

[@thestrangerofmountains]

@@hxndxrs0n815 Dont be rude one day you will become 67.

[@chrisrea6841]

Me too but at least we are lucky enough to live in this era and have some level of knowledge about all that. Just a few centuries back and we would look up in the sky and understand as much as toddlers do when they look at a nuclear physicist's notebook.

[@hxndxrs0n815]

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[@Sherwoody]

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[@Rockit-]

Yep, they put in the new Covid-19 "B" virus, the more viralent one,,or was that the Chinese Government because the first one didnt do a good enough job?

[@suryagunda4038]

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[@EtnaExpeditions]

I love videos about colonizing planets/moons. Thank you very much :)

[@amritaguhabasu5456]

I love videos and games about Alpha Centauri and Tau Ceti

[@marcelmotta8141]

Yeah, amazing topic

[@silla-je9od]

What is with Western peoples' obsession with "colonizing" everyone around them? Is it just NOT a concept to live peaceably amid other cultures, rather than have the need to colonize them, in the Western mind?

[@hxndxrs0n815]

Insane Curiosity: Colonize Mars, Titan, Moon, Proxima B, Venus. Me: *SURE*

[@suryagunda4038]

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[@ahmadfawaz9479]

haha dont care

[@johannesson77]

Nah, the answer is definitely 42

[@Armaghasthyp]

Just watched the video, and this is exactly what i wanted to write myself :)

[@RoscoesRiffs]

The Voyager II, the fastest object mankind has created, will be one light year away from us in 18,600 years. "It's only four light years away." ROTFL

[@jebes909090]

We could probably do 10% light speed. That would get us there in 40 years. We need to build space infrastructure in our own solar system first before attempting to colinize another solar system.

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

@@jebes909090 Humanity has access to Orion Drives. Also known as nuclear pulse drives. It essentially explodes a nuclear pellet (essentially a bomb) behind a pusher plate propelling the vessel at a ever increasing speeds. In theory as we haven't put it in practice a modern Orion like device can produce somewhere up to 10-11% near the speed of light. With Theroretical Anti-matter Orion Drives producing up to 50- 80% the speed of light. There was also Project Deadulus which was around 12% the speed of light and Project Medusa Although Project Medusa seemed more interplanetary and not actually interstellar. In any case. The Orion Drive if we built one now and sent it on the way to proxima it would take about 40 years. Although on earth it might be 42-44 for us due to time dialation. Not that much of a issue really. at such a slow speed in terms of light years. We don't need to build a space infranstructure to build a non-crewed probe. Technically we can use what we have to build a sizable ship now that is crewed but it would essentially be a one way trip due to the crew life-spans unless we were able to slow down aging. Or stall it. We would need a infranstructure however to build a colony ship or ark or semi-permenant mobile station to a alien system.. Essentially the best use outside of a probe for the Orion Drive. It would need to support a crew of 100,000 or more, be self-sufficiant and able to do colonization, exploration and communication. Finally it needs to be able to colonize a earth or mars like body. Earth like body would be preferable especially if its conditions makes it preferable for human survival but a world similar to conditions like mars would make a readily colonization site as it would be a little easier and similar to the conditions on the ship with a enclosed system and similar. To be honest we reached a point in our civilization that we are more than capable of surviving on at least lunar like surfaces and possibly mars like ones. Even potentially hostile worlds thanks to our own world having variable biomes which we have adapted on. All it takes is the will.

[@diyson]

Voyager 2 is not the fastest object Humans have launched into space. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest man-made object ever so far. reaching speeds of 430,000 mph.

[@RoscoesRiffs]

@@diyson Nice sharpshootin' there, pard. The Parker Solar Probe is indeed projected to reach a blistering speed of430,000 miles per hour in 2025, which means it will achieve 0.0006412009 light speed. It will do so by taking advantage of the sun's immense gravity well, something Voyager II couldn't do. I think that speed record will stand for a very long time.

[@immcguyver07]

Because the rent is so dern high in Earth cities.

[@lecturesoniesgatepreparati8554]

Yes

[@georgesimon2730]

We can't colonize the freaking moon just yet!

[@2k7u]

Born too early to explore the universe

[@georgesimon2730]

@@2k7u you'll get there

[@silla-je9od]

@George Depends on whom you ask.

[@roberthayes5037]

We can’t even colonize our own solar system

[@2k7u]

We barely scratched the surface of our own natural satelite

[@alexandremattos4046]

Usually things go like this, slowly, until they reach a critical mass (in terms of technology and infrastructure ) from there things in space exploration will go very fast

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

Yet now we have SpaceX quickly making the technology avaliable that will allow us to land on another world. As pointed out things tend to go slowly until it reaches a critical mass. We have had the technology to land on other worlds since the 60s but likely not the infranstructure until perhaps the 80s and 90s. Its however now that we've managed to reach the point that the will, desire, and matured technology and infranstructure is capable of us mass producing ships as a affordable rate that can allow us to colonize and now create the infranstructure in space itself. This is the critical mass neccessary for actual space exploration. Early rocket 50-70s: Appllo and Russian equivelants, able to land on the moon able to build rudimentry space stations. Skylab and similar. Early Shuttles 80-early 2000s: Space Shuttle and the Russian Buran orbiters. Able to launch and carry moderate to heavy payloads along with traditional rockets, and can act as tender and carrier of sensitive equipment in the construction of space stations and satilites. The shuttle was instrumental in part of the creation of the International Space Station. This was also the creation of reusable craft. Space Stations creation 1971 to present creation of early space infranstructure. Space Station Actuals: 1980s to present These are module completed stations Mir and the International Space Station which are substantially sized stations that can house multiple people and various scientific projects. Mir was decommisioned and destroyed at the end of its career. The International Space Station created in 1996 would likely be the primariy station that will end up having future versions be based as launching points for intersystem travel. 2010s: private companies rise up to develop rocket craft instead of traditional government ordered ones especially after significant cutbacks to space technology durign the early 2000s thanks to increase in wars and conflicts. Companies like Blue Origin and Space X begin to put serious research and development for true reusable space planes and rockets. Late 2010s SpaceX achieves Resuable rockets and by 2019 is actively launching and recovering rockets at a comfortable rate and development and production explodes. The creation of a actual space ship is now in progress. 2020: SpaceX Starship is rapidly researched and developed which is seen worldwide via the internet. Late 2020 saw the first successful launch and system work of a Starship Prototype. SN8. SN9 is expected to launch sometime in the first month of 2021 Jan. If SN9 performs as successfully as SN8 and manages to land relatively intact, in pieces, or competely it will mark a new era in possible space exploration as it will be the first large space craft since the Space shuttle that is both reusable and multi-mission capable able to perform projects similar to the Shuttle but now also able to perform interplanetary travel. 2021 will likely also see the creation and launch of the rocket that the Starship will be carried on. No we are more than capable of colonizing our solar system. We just never had the will until now and the technology has matured that we can now achieve this comfortably. Would have gone faster had we not been trying to kill each other since the 50s.

[@2k7u]

@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent We have the technology to do it but the bureaucracy is just too much and funding is a huge problem aswell...

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

@@2k7u Nope just obstacles to overcome. such things can be changed and overcome. Sorry but I was raised to believe in dealing with the impossible and making it possible. The trick is for you to start thinking like that. Saying its too much or impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.

[@SolarPunk80]

Don’t get me wrong, Proxima fascinates me, but Alpha Centauri both oft he stars I forgot which is larger, are actually much more similar to our sun, which means that they are pretty rare as well. What annoys me is that we let the limitations of our ability to “see” or detect, condition our scientific priorities. So just because it’s easier for us to detect earth like planets around m dwarves doesn’t mean that’s were we should be looking, especially when the Alpha stars are just a little (relatively) farther.

[@Smartion]

Ah... a much needed knowledge upload thank you 🙏🏼

[@amangogna68]

Great information !

[@InsaneCuriosity]

Thanks sir, happy new year!

[@kayakwesty]

My new favorite channel

[@InsaneCuriosity]

Glad you love the channel, happy new 2021 Mark

[@likiteshchalla374]

Lost in space in Netflix. Will help to introduction of alpha centurie and this video can explain completely. Nice one 😍😍

[@dmarckos]

Only one small problem. Our DNA would age too fast with "5-day long", years on the said system. The radio signal mode of search is not a powerful tool. Remember how long we have existed on Earth without a radio, yet we were still intelligent all the time.

[@tyrellchibvongodze3566]

that last part of no radio but intelligent is very profound. I am thinking of advancement of Egypt without radio signals.

[@williamgallop9425]

Mistake: why in animations Voyagers are always pointing their disks forward, not backwards toward Earth?

[@walterlyzohub8112]

My guess is they will ran the video backwards, maybe on purpose. But they are not the only ones.

[@kolian8765]

Aesthetic reasons man, you don't want to see a space shuttle going backwards, which is the way it does go when re-entering, then yaws to bank angle. The same with voyager.

[@greganderson7216]

You know, I’ve never noticed that! Lol!

[@Kenword69420]

Love these types of videos thanks for helping me procrastinate things I really need to do (Also I’m the 100th comment)

[@revan3841]

Orange dwarves are likely the best options for life, over sun-like stars and red dwarves.

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

Our sun is basically a dwarf. A Yellow Dwarf actually although its more white colored. Orange Dwards are the middle man between g-sequence stars and red dwarves. They have a good life span to ours will last a max of 10 billion years. Orange ones are just as stable and can last well into 18-30 billion years.

[@revan3841]

@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Yep, it seem like the orange dwarfs have some of the best traits of the red and yellow. Do you know if orange dwarves potentially have issues with tidally locked habital-zone planets?

[@kevanhubbard9673]

You forget Pioneer 10 and 11 they must have crossed or be crossing the boundary although we don't exactly know where they are since unfortunately their signals have stopped or the aim is now off.

[@Goiri]

I didn't know that próxima c has been confirmed.. i like the project starshot sounds very interesting

[@KidTitan]

At least there were not any Michael Jordan measurements on this video.

[@2k7u]

hahaha

[@PlisskensRun]

The movie The Last Starfighter also said the name Alpha Centauri

[@thulodari6816]

Oh

[@tommyhunter5558]

Which is still a bad ass movie!

[@PlisskensRun]

@@tommyhunter5558 There making another one.

[@bastiaanzoetaert9628]

If wow 2020 is aliens sending a dial tone from proxima, then the 'plan' is an avatar situation.

[@dirremoire]

I think your idea merits serious consideration.

[@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser]

How you getting there?

[@technologicalsingularitywi7734]

i love this channel

[@jimgreen5788]

Insane Curiosity, I just returned from a google search, where I confirmed what I've always understood to be true: the accent in Proxima falls on the 1st. syllable, not the 2nd.

[@druid139]

Because it sounds like a pretty awesome address to seem cool to your friends.

[@2k7u]

Science isn't about why, it's about why not?

[@TaeSunWoo]

(Reads title) well Proxmia B is a galactic cell tower so our signal will be better

[@kolian8765]

Lol what? Those radio waves are most probably magnetic field chemical interactions. Although aliens could be really exciting

[@jefforious2000]

Huh?

[@enigma7791]

Who us? We are nowhere near even contemplating travel to Alpha Centauri. With current tech it would be thousands of years to get there. In space terms we are stone age.

[@aresmars2003]

Agreed. It is yet science fiction, perhaps always fictions. My best projection would be robotic "seed ships", bringing microbial life that could be modified to survive on whatever conditions are at the destination. And it could take 20,000 years if needed, but first we have to better to understand life itself, and how to find it off the earth. Does life independently form easily under the right conditions? Or is it hard to start? Could life on earth have been "seeded" by some previous higher life from elsewhere? We really can't know. So far it seems life is very rare in the universe, but on earth it is everywhere. Why is that? Could it be life needs a "Gaia", so new life stays simple and develops slowly until a critical mass is formed (like great oxygenation event), and then complex forms can evolve quickly, like our Cambrian explosion. We don't even know if earth plants or animals can live on Mars or the Moon, where a yet unknown "Gaia field" is missing. Our ignorance is staggering, but at least we can actually find out what we don't know by trying to live off the earth. So far, even the ISS seems close enough to earth, with a thin atmosphere and protective magnetic field, it doesn't even really count as outer space.

[@nevinsonlotterman5492]

I wish I could live in Alpha centuria and proxima centuria

[@johngeier8692]

A few technological breakthroughs are required before manned interstellar travel is possible. Automated construction in space, sustained thermonuclear fusion propulsion and artificial biospheres are the main ones. There are searches in progress to find more planets around Alpha Centauri A and B. A tidally locked planet around a red dwarf flare star is far from ideal for colonisation. I would consider planets that are similar to how earth was 300 million years ago as ideal.

[@NileGold]

2069, nice

[@jasonwebb1882]

The old tv show Lost in space. Weren't they going to Alpha Centauri? It's been a long time since I saw it. I'm pretty sure that's where they were going. Wouldnt it be crazy if they actually find life around those stars.

[@nikojones7680]

I can’t wait until I can travel there and see it for myself

[@dumbcharlez5052]

u have a delorean

[@dariuszkucharski7114]

colonization only if the planets are not yet inhabited...

[@CHIM3RA.]

Exactly I hate how so many speak on colonising planets but never say work with the indigenous species on those planets.

[@johnsaville9210]

I think we have to wait a bit and allow researchers to determine if there are other exoplanets around the two other stars in their habitable zones. Apparently they believe there is but due to a variety of reasons they have been unable to identify them. These would probably be better choices than a sun-facing locked planet around a red dwarf.

[@rustyphilip7826]

the images and scenes showing are completely throwing me off from the audio informations in the video

[@jamm0tube]

thanks for letting us know

[@leaningr]

Close your eyes. lol

[@suryagunda4038]

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[@lecturesoniesgatepreparati8554]

Can you make more transparent sysytem

[@kaitlyn6853]

Actually with current technology we could reach the Proxima Centauri system in 80-90 years, as we already have achieved 3.8% light speed. Also expect space travel technology development to go exponential once we can start building/using ships on the moon.

[@lecturesoniesgatepreparati8554]

Did you able to make the galactic spaceship or not

[@bombud1]

4.2 light years is nothing because it isn't 12bil light years. So.. in about 40k years, when we arrive...

[@lissaleggs4136]

It will be even further away in 40,000 years due to expansion of Universe.

[@aivokallo77]

How does one brake from velocity of 15 - 20 % of speed of light?

[@walterlyzohub8112]

How about circling the Star and using the light sail to slow down? You could use the sail when properly oriented.

[@superskunknl]

@@walterlyzohub8112 will the ship be able to handle the heat and radiation from that Star? Would be nice if the crew would survive the Journey😬😄

[@boblord5702]

got to send infrastructure ahead to dive into the atmosphere of alien Suns and reflect light slowing down other incoming infrastructure how ever many it take to get into orbit of the centauri system. preferably around all 3 stars which could slow in coming relativistic loads from earths solar system until there is the ability to slow down space colonists/ fully contained space habitats best to colonize new systems in reverse setting up factory's and habitats in space then taking on alien planets

[@anarchistgalaxy1857]

5:51 I thought we didn't know that is it a rocky or a gas planet, or between?

[@cuddlesandkafka]

Its mass has been measured and is less than 120% earth's mass, making a gas giant unlikely.

[@saumyacow4435]

It might also be a good idea if we were to become a more civilised species before we inflict ourselves on other planets. The neighbours might see us as a parasite.

[@tnnsboy18]

We can't even colonize Venus, Moon, Mars, Titan and were thinking about other solar systems LMAO

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

Actually we can colonize Mars, the Moon, and perhaps visit Tian. The technology is already there. We just never had a need for it. Venus however is currently still extremely hostile. Unless we are able to destroy its current atmosphere/

[@marrqi7wini54]

@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent The colonization of Venus is currently an impossible endeavor. The heat and pressure make any colony there a suicidal mission. If we try to land on it. The way to safely colonize Venus would be to stay in the clouds. Where the temperature and pressure is earth like. In the CO2 rich atmosphere, oxygen is a lifting gas. Our main two concerns are the acidity of the atmosphere and maintenance of the containment tanks to hold the oxygen or other lifting gasses. The acid is the easy part. We have materials to hold sulfuric acid. And they aren't to hard to make. Maintenance I agree will be a true problem but it can be done. But a proper orbital infrastructure will be necessary for it to succeed. So a small problem won't become a huge problem and help won't be too far away. Otherwise, trying would be a waste of resources and lives.

[@frglee]

From what I understand, Proxima Centauri is a fairly active flare star. Any planet there would be a great place to get fried by radiation. The other two suns in this 'nearby' triple star system might well have less inhospitable planets, but I think you only get oxygen atmospheres with life. Before photosynthesizing plant life evolved on Earth, the atmosphere here was made up of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, and was quite unbreathable. The plant life 'cracked' the carbon dioxide into carbon, which could be used to make organic chemicals, and oxygen which eventually allowed animal life to evolve.. This all took hundreds of millions of years to get going.

[@silla-je9od]

Or was the planet artificially terraformed long ago for the convenience of one or more colonizing space-faring species?

[@DeathByFishing]

When it's said that a planet is suitable for life or not is only seen from our human perspective. We have no clue what types of life exists outside our sample of 1.

[@johngeier8692]

Do other self replicating molecules apart from DNA and RNA exist ?

[@abhayprasad9580]

But the main problem is how we go there? We need to find fastest ways to travel in space we have warp etc.... In development we need to find alternative how to travel faster than light pls make a video on this topic

[@KevinDavis338]

Let's go!!!!

[@jimgreen5788]

Also, Thule is pronounced TWO-lee, rather than THOOL, which is the same as the 'capital' of Greenland, and was borrowed from the word the Greeks and Romans came up with for the mythical place farthest north that could be inhabited.

[@viennapalace]

One thing that bugs me about this fantasy of "light sail" powered by lasers is how do you slow them down? How do they maneuver? How do you control something going that fast, that far away heading towards what has got to be considered a tiny target in a Universe in which everything is moving?

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

We have advanced quite a bit in engine and computer technology since the 60s. We have access to multiple rocket systems some which could take decades to degrade especially in space. Thrusters to change a crafts direction can be acheived and the laser be adjusted to compesate even despite the distance with the computer adjusting accordingly. Its much easier for a computer to control a aircraft and space craft than a car. We already are aware of galactic drift and such data can be uploaded to the system from Earth which likely would get updates accordingly at the distances involved course corrections and adjustments is easy until it reaches the destination site. From there it would need its own engine which can be used with Ion Drives or similar which can be used as brakes until it slows down for inter system travel. Another way is insuring the light sails are also solar sails. This would allow the vessel to slow down as well as it gets closer to the target system and no longer rely on the laser for movement other than the occasional adjustment. Once it reaches the system it will be able to navigate on its own by any program routes that was either programmed back on earth or what ever new objectives it was given as it got closer to the system and star and thus gained more detail and knowledge. Naturally the probe will likely try to get into a gravitational orbit of the star so as to use gravity and nearby worlds to help control its flight path and speed. recording on the way.

[@darrencooper6511]

Mankind's conquest of the Moon? Monolith from 2001- A space odyssey. "Hold my beer".

[@MG-er6dm]

Ahhhh, my good friends are here again. 😙 P.S Thanks Insane Curiosity.

[@Bingo551]

Because if we don't get from Galaxy to Galaxy to Galaxy we will not survive as a species. Expand or die.

[@Matt33318]

I read an article about that, there was a huge solar flare on Proxima Centauri few years ago. Perhaps it completely sterilized Proxima B's surface and atmosphere, giving 0% chance for simple, living microorganisms to survive such a cataclism. I found that article. www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerful-visible.amp

[@rehanmashood]

I guess , one is sun star, another the aliens glows the planet which looks like sun, then 3rd is there planet which they glow it through sunlight panels.

[@tscoffey1]

Isn’t our discussing whether to colonize the Alpha Centauri system sort of like ancient Greeks discussing how to get to the Moon? No technology we know of can get even a single human across the 4 light years, neither in their lifetime, nor in some sort of suspended animation.

[@karkovice10]

But what is there's an already existing alien civilization on those planets? Do we will establish a colony there, and hope to live in peaceful coexistence with them?

[@jan-erikwahlberg2791]

Insane indeed...

[@Daniel-qh9hu]

Strange, I always thought that in Bab5, Centauri race is from Alpha Centauri system :)

[@leopanaite604]

The maximum speed we reach now is less than 2 km/s. Let's say that we can reach 100km/s soon. Lets say in the next 50 years. The speed of light is about 300.000 kmps and the distance from here to Alpha Centauri is about 4 light years. So, it will take us 4000 years to travel the same distance - at the speed of 100km/s. Which we don't have. I suggest we learn to respect this paradise on Earth more, because we won't leave it soon - not in 10 k years.

[@juaquinibarra6313]

Not only the last star fighter but lost in space talks anout alpha centauri

[@tommycollier9172]

We only have 4 million years to figure this out.

[@shaungovender1433]

We reached Planet Earth from our Previous place. Humanity will end and we will travel to another Universe to Live as intelligent beings. Its impossible to get to Proxima B. When our bodies expire. We are born again and again and again and travel lights years in a split second

[@ArinjayBhattacharya-dz4zj]

Because its important

[@bp2352]

How much toilet paper do you need for a road trip like that?

[@chrisduhaime5689]

We have to send a AI droid out there in numbers to find a habitual planet

[@onelifeoneloveonedream1658]

When they reach the Proxima centuri. I will watch their success as I will reincarnate again.

[@lecturesoniesgatepreparati8554]

Now seems that it's possible right or not

[@certifiedsampsonfan1195]

try an fix earth first ,

[@superskunknl]

Lol aint gonna happen with all the garbage humans living on it😜

[@nolgoodrum2122]

There could be extraterrestrial alien 👽 lifeforms that are highly advanced that may exist on that super Earth like world.

[@tricky1992000]

With new breakthroughs in anti aging tech, such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy, i can forsee people travelling to the stars in induced comae.

[@superskunknl]

What about the radiation?

[@tricky1992000]

@@superskunknl there's 2 potential solutions I know of, 1) have a double hull spaceship and grow Cryptococcus neoformans in the space. 2) a strong magnetic shield

[@superskunknl]

@@tricky1992000 never thought about that! Makes sense though. Wish i was Born later in the future, where we would have some sort of big achievement. Like having Real contact with other living beings elsewhere in the galaxy.

[@DeadInside-ew8qb]

It would still take tens of thousands of years to get to Proxima Centauri though

[@tricky1992000]

@@DeadInside-ew8qb Not if you can harvest the anti-matter trapped in Jupiter's magnetic field. www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/08/antimatter-belt-found-circling-earth

[@walterlyzohub8112]

I think Elon Musk’s vision is close to the truth. The best way to preserve life on Earth is to spread it out. (“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” metaphor for Earth. Or remember the dinosaurs.) Also the spin-offs from doing so would be beneficial to all.

[@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser]

First of all... How you getting there?

[@crnocommentary]

Honestly I have no faith that Alpha Centauri is it habitable as we think it is the star has insane solar storms all the time and by now probably would have burned away any atmosphere on any of the planets

[@MrCoats]

I have a QUESTION why try to live no matter what the universe throws at us if it's known fact that nothing last forever?

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

Cause its in our nature to survive as long as we can. The basic program of all life. Only sentient life questions its existence. However we are still programmed to survive.

[@MrCoats]

So what do u do once u turn 100? try to continue to try to survive it's call denial death is unavoidable

[@nwabuezeozuzu6370]

This is more insanity than curiosity. Colonize a galaxy that is light years away? The voyager probes you launched 43 years ago haven't reached anywhere in the cosmos and you are debating colonizing Alpha Centauri

[@anguscovoflyer95]

Proxima Centauri is not safe for colonization due to its extremely frequent and violent solar flares

[@entoythedragon8463]

Since it will take almost 80,000 years for us to get there, how can we send someone to that planet? Send a frozen embryo?

[@superskunknl]

No were gonna Send a Monkey and let Evolution Do its Thing 🤷‍♂️🙉

[@diouranke]

only 8 au away 🙄

[@granthudson5447]

maybe we're the seeds from that star system from some catastrophic disaster. Like a dandelion blowing in the wind.

[@boblord5702]

[@charleswatson4734]

If people wouldn't have fucked up the Earth, there would be no need to colonize any other places! And if they do colonize another place, are they going to start off like Columbus did??

[@whoshotdk]

78,000 years! That's not exactly down the road to the Chemist...

[@tricky1992000]

We can do it faster than that... project orion etc.

[@maestroLeslie]

As we populate the stars, might we first repair the damage we have produced on this planet. I am sure that would actually prepare us for celestial population.

[@silla-je9od]

That would require unity, which is not one of humanity's strengths, to put it nicely.

[@eugenespolicyproductions477]

I want to go to another planet some day I’m 15 now hope I get the opportunity.

[@skipperofschool8325]

me too, man

[@skipperofschool8325]

@Larry Trimble You go high enough from the hell fire you'll have ice water

[@bonysminiatures3123]

dream on

[@amyhogarten5038]

So we can completely destroy its potential ecosystem just like Earth.

[@lecturesoniesgatepreparati8554]

First survive on earth like 500 years

[@macwis_gang7309]

Have you thought of some of this people who wrote this comments might be dead ☠️ 🥲now as I write my comment. So high future reader 😁 I was here 😌

[@User-qt7hf]

First colonize our neighbouring planets

[@pcpc5242]

i controll the stars the sun and the moons

[@pulverapa1580]

Dat. Voice.

[@shahrukhsulthan5677]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@electricangel2931]

So I have been checking out this radio signal that’s been picked up here. It’s coming from here... Proxima Centauri/alpha/Orion .. so that means either the pyramids were aligned with Orion so we wouldn’t forget where we came from .. or that’s where our “gods” come from..

[@abdulmoshin4534]

Brak throw sort star prosima a star santori

[@puravidadew7031]

Why look anywhere outside of earth for a place to live? It’s all very stupid because as we are destroying ourselves and the ability of the planet to sustain life, we think we can go somewhere else?

[@marcelmotta8141]

I think convection flow could balance de Weathers dispate of has always a side to star

[@stijill]

I like your channel but you guys need a better logo. That grape flavored gum drop is just toddler

[@BjManberries]

Never happen in the next million years. If we could go a million mph, and our top speed is 38,000 right now, it would still take almost 300 yrs. It would be cool to just travel the universe, but not reality.

[@boblord5702]

A few fractions of a percent of the suns light could get space craft to the nearest stars in a few decades