Space exploration - Destination the Alpha Centauri star system

[Scrumpilump2000]

Why haven't human beings built a lunar space station yet?

[DrRabbitz]

Watch for the mindworms! Awful things!

[SuperColonel77]

The thing that really matters is first using Anti Matter and then using Hibernation but its not that easy they will have one more thing Artificial gravity. By now you already know that Earth's resources are running out at an Alarming rate. So it would be wiser that we start on Mars and and the Moon to mine things like Iron. In fact Earth's resources came from Asteroids crahing on our planet long ago and Asteroids seem like the most easiest job to do. By gosh i would sign up right away

[amicrowaveoven]

Why Nasa don't find earthlike-planets orbiting Centauri?

Kepler is too far to search life

[HARClX]

@amicrowaveoven because we dont have telescopes/techmology strong enougt to detect planets that far. stars -yes, but not planets

[flyingmonkey1001]

@SASNIGHTCRAWLER Interstellar Travel is Possible but we cant Go at the speed of Light the reason why is that even if a Grain of Dust hits the Space Craft the Space Craft would be Denigrated along with the crew remember it isn't about how fast you can go it's if you make it there

[efirefighter12]

@flyingmonkey1001

Wrong. By the time we figure out how to go the speed of light, we will know how to protect the ships with force fields/shields. So yes we will be able to one day.

[patgoulet3]

@flyingmonkey1001

according to the theory of special relativity, and the Lorentz transformation, any object travelling at the speed of light would have a mass of 0. Mass and energy are interchangeable and the speed of light acts as a speed limit, a point at which all mass is converted into energy and ceases to exist.

The trick is to achieve speed without achieving velocity relative to its enviroment. expanding and contracting space so that the object in movement doesn't actually move at all.

[TeQuiiLaSHoTZz]

I feel as if humans are more likely to cause our own destruction before we ever achieve a speed greater than or equivalent to light. We are masters of colonisation and without such an effort we will eventually disappear like the dinosaurs. I hope things change!

[MarketTheArt]

We could have both supercat... Everyone is entitled to their respectable way of life.

[SuperCatdick]

mani wish i were alive to see the day we colonize in other worlds but there are a bunch of retarded fucktards who say to put the money in schools and housing fuck that if something bad happens 2 earth is the school gonna save us we must colonize and get rid of the stupid ignornt morons who say no to space colonization

[TheGuitarman951]

Actualy this map I have seen online from a very famous case shows you a real map of the Alpha Centauri system that also shows moons around the planets. There are 2 planets around both stars A & B. Each of the 2 (4 planets total) has moons too. It could possibly be that 2 planets in one or both stars could be habitable. Or 1 planet for both stars could be habitable and 1 or more moons around both planets on both stars.

[QueenButtercup]

Wow!

[stickmanpwner64]

pause at 0:40 and you will see pandora

[stickmanpwner64]

HAAAX pause at at around 0:40 and you will see a planet with an earth like moon!

[JappSlapp00]

Finally, i found something about the Alpha Centauri system and searching for Earth like planets in it.

[stickmanpwner64]

I thought there were only 2 stars at alpha centari

[nicktjeuh]

@stickmanpwner64 Alpha centauri is made out of 3 parts; 2 suns wich are Alpha centauri A and b, proximo centauri doesnt rlly count as a 3th star. u know one of the stars is just a little bit smaller then our own sun?

[shane4896]

We should definately learn more about our neighbor star system. You have my thumbs up on this one.

[adrastea99]

They have about 30 degrees declination based on sun-mw center and are a bit to the right?

I'm just trying to visualize this

[Sinsaytob]

We donot knows what lies be on our next adventure because our adventure is happening right know with the earth.

[kutubu1]

conventional technology will not bring us there, maybe travelling out of space and time threw a wormhole will be possible in the far future

[empemitheos]

4 lightyears is doable with current technology, nuclear rockets or similar combined with an ion drive would be sufficient and also fairly economical, both cost-wise and time-wise. Both are in development and/or use today. With time dilation when the ship gets to high speeds people inside would perceive perhaps a quarter of the time that had actually passed. The real issues are proper shielding for the long voyage and the viability of planets nearby. That is all that is holding this project back.

[linuxBlob]

@empemitheos So for your calculation of a quarter of the time, the ship would need to travel at a speed of 96.8246%* c, or 290273 km/s. That's simply not possible with todays technology, the amount of fuel to reach that speed with an ion drive or any nuclear drive would be incredible. Not to mention, the time it would take for that rocket to "ramp up" to that speed. Food for thought.

[RetartedWaffles]

@linuxBlob Well we've advanced THIS far in 100 years? We have thousands of years ahead of us to do that besides there's ideas. So far no luck with ship travel but we're coming up with things like ship sails to try and view Alpha Centauri up close. We might not have proper inventions yet but we have enough time to come up with it c:

[csbob2004]

@RetartedWaffles I doubt humans will make it...its far more likely that in the next couple hundred years due to overpopulation we will destroy ourselves. Overpopulation leads to war, famine, drought and disease. Usually when one happens the rest follow. If humanity can avoid fighting and work together to combat these problems then maybe we have a chance. The way its looking right now I don't see that happening.

[spacepatrolman]

@csbob2004 A scientist said with the amount of overpopulation and the lack of recourses on the earth the enire history of the human race will be a bitter struggling for survival

[ckondiah]

@linuxBlob Although your post was 7 months ago I had to Answer. Another thought for you to chew on, the technology you address in your post deal with a fuel source, what about zero energy source like anti gravity and warp systems to distort space time. Research Boyd Bushman and Miguel Alcubierre...Also a russian scientist in the early 90"s performed an experiment with super conductors and recorded particles moving 64X the speed of light...

[TheGuitarman951]

I found an article that proves there IS life in this star system.

[Ramshobraja]

Would be interesting to send atleast an unmanned mission out that ways.

[MetoOdMakedonija]

And if the probe travels with light speed it will reach destinationin only four years... Difficult... We can send a probe, but the first ones ro receive results will be our children.

[Rustinwilson]

it would take us 44 years to get there now but give it a few years

[keybladerz75]

i dont understand, can anyone explain to me? because i wonder if the planet pandora on avatar movie were exist. hehe ;)

[anural25]

...& hopefully, Neytiri is still kicking and alive on Pandora.

[TranswarpXL]

Sometimes the vastness of space is difficult to understand, so here is an interesting comparison. By Scaling downwards, pretend that the Sun and Earth are 1 meter apart, at that comparitive distance, Alpha Centauri would be 169 miles away from the Sun. Earth to Sun = 1 meter, Sun to Alpha Centauri = 169 miles. Wow!

[rbolo29]

We may be on a revolution in understanding how to travel faster than light speed.

Moving Dimensions Theory may have that answer along with achievements at the Large Hadron Collider.

[melikehp]

@rbolo29

well, some scientists belive that traveling faster than the speed of light will be impossible with just regular engines and technology.

[MultiIPwnage]

@rbolo29 but then you go farther in the future and what if to far?

[veganbond]

if usa military hides et tech and usa sheeple do something we may go far and fast sooner

[hameed]

@rbolo29 no

[melbourneopera]

Cool, hope that somebody can colonize that Solar system some day, if possible

[RtGFuSiOn]

lol yeah but it would be virtually impossible to communicate with earth, as communication waves all the way from Infra red up to gamma rays all travel at the speed of light. Even the fasted moving particle the photon (light) would take 4.5years to get there and another 4.5 years for a reply. so if you asked how things were going you would get a reply 9 years later. And that is assuming we manage to sustain a population of people in space for those 4.5years in the first place. Maybe one day...

[Dakktyrel]

@melbourneopera - if it's not already. =)

[chyeah115]

@melbourneopera The Navi do man.

[TigerMeet2142]

@chyeah115 around 2140 it will be  possible i think

[jeffrey200800]

@melbourneopera Maybe there is already civilization in this solar system. Anyway, as long as we don't have the interdimensionnal propulsion there is no way to reach this!

[Helge129]

@jeffrey200800 You don`t need FTL to fly to another star - with solar sails, Apha Centauri is probably about 10 years away.

[mrdean3]

@Helge129 6 years. Haven't you ever watched 'Avatar'? rofl! ; )

[TheKingXXIV]

@mrdean3 @Helge129 Yeah but that's in the 22nd Century:the technology they have then is far superior to what we have now.

[AnimeDarklife1995]

great video! it helped me so much for my science assignment!! i love it!

[jackbliss]

Did you make this presentation? This is amazing!! Great work... reach for the stars indeed! :-)

[MrJJJames]

This is quitei nformative and interesting cheers for putting this video up.

[golddigger159]

Interesting.