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  • I take it we are looking at a lens flare, not the actual star disc?

    the actual star is many times smaller afaik

  • @DanFrederiksen Yes, i was thinking of the same thing, if we could reduce the brightness of the actual star, by looking through different spectrums of light, we would see the orbiting objects around it . Could we?

  • @djason4 I think planets are too faint to be seen next to the star but maybe

  • fuck man! all the cynnical people! Europeans only discovered america was there a few hundred years ago when they were looking for india! now look where we are with technology and not to mention our knowledge of our own planet as well as our solar system is vast compared to back then. The only reason we have this knowledge is because humans endeavoured... you think we wont reach the stars? I say its a matter of time

  • @thekendokid the stars have already reached for us

  • well 10 times faster is only 1 way to take it,there are speeds that will take u to another galaxy in only a few weeks...

  • And an engine for the speed of light is being made,sort of,its a antimatter engine,but with that it would take 70-100 years to get to alpha centauri,and any contact with any dust will eliminate the ship completely at that speed.

  • The laws of physics only count for Earth and this solar system,u dont know whats beyond this system and beyond the galaxy.

  • Yeah i think this is fake...u just video taped the moon...ive done it before,looks just like this,and we dont have a chance of getting to centauri because its 4 light years away...well we can hope that aliens will take us there...and u can exceed the speed of light,its called hyperspeed...going 10 times the speed of light in hyperspace.

  • @urmas1997

    10times the speed of light isnt really much faster. It would still take you thousands of years to cross the galaxy.

  • and if there is an outside it jus may be that there aint no laws of speed or anything which may allow the universe to expand into much faster than light can travel inside our universe. we jus dont know whats beyond and we may never

  • but think about it like this. yes nothing can exceed the speed of light. the laws of physics do not alow it. but thats within our universe. whos to say that nuthing can travel faster outside our universe. no one knows if ther is an outside. like for instance the expansion of our universe is supposidly expanding faster than the speed of light. and if the universe is expanding it must b expanding into somthing. an outside maybe??

  • @SNOWxTROOPER a think that first of all we need to look at how light travels in our universe. it travels as an electromagnetic wave. a disturbance or ripple in the electromagnetic field. but light travels faster when not obsorbed by particles. for example when light travels through water or air it slows down. even when it travels through our eyes it slows down in order for us to create an image of the world around us.

  • oh and if theres matter u can manipulate it. obviosly not in this day and age but am sure mibi in a few thousand years if were still here we may have the knoledge and tech to actually warp space time which means we can travel loooonnnng distances in a reasonable time. but tbh a fink humans are jus destined to die and become extinct. unless wee can move to another star system b4 our sun turns into a red giant and cooks us all then were ok lol

  • @irishminja hey i know what your sayn. what you mean is warp space time which cosmoligists are say cud b possible. jus bcoz space is full of empty space dosent mean theres nuthin there. the empty space that seems empty actually isint. its full of matter which makes that space. to us (the human eye) there looks like nuthin but in the smallest of scales there trillions upon trillions of matter bcoz if it werent for matter then space itself wud not exist.

  • lol earth humans !!

  • its impossible to go faster than light, the laws of physics do no allow it. but what does not make any sense to me is that in the big bang, the universe was expanding more than 2000 light years in only an hour and if its immpossible to go faster than 299 792 458 meters per secong how did that happen??

  • @SNOWxTROOPER First answer what IS universe, then you can answer why, but no one knows what exactly is this "universe".

  • Greetings

    I study with the channeled consciousness known today as "The Wonders" and they said once that the nearest system with life forms closest to ours was Alpha Centauri. Kinda cool.:)

  • thats so bright, where were you

  • It may be that we will find life, in a lot of places in the universe and even intelligent life as well.  But we may also find that most life, lived and died a long time before humans got there! When we go out in space to find our brothers, we may find we live in a universe full of life but empty from failed civilizations of many differing ages.

  • Alpha Centauri A is identical to our sun. (same spectral class, but a 3 star system). When we look for life in the universe and examine the top 50 local stars, we are lucky to find that the closest star to our own, is identical to our sun. I would also wager that one day, we will find life has existed there once.

  • Love that star XD

  • @AustralianPhenomena Its actually 2 stars xD which makes them even more awesome.

  • This is very nice

  • The fastest engine capable of taking us everywhere is our imagination, you just close your eyes and think you are in alpha centauri , less expensive and less dangerous. Peace.

  • @Juanartista

    Thanks thats great advice! Yesterday I wish I was in Hawaii. I just closed my eyes and swoosh, I was there. Then later I had to go shop for groceries. I just closed my eyes and before I knew it I was at the grocery store without having to walk there.

    Peace

  • I predict nuclear propulsion in the future. The goal is to reach 1/10 the speed of light. It would then only take us 40 years to reach there. Current record propulsion for us is 35,000 miles per hour. At that rate it would take us 75000 years to reach there. I think life in nearby planets is very possible, but adv civilizations like us is really unlikely despite the AC solar system being a billion years older than us. Radio waves sent there for many decades with no response. RW = speed of light.

  • @LordDrakos

    That would be cool, couldnt nuclear propulsion take us as far as up to 80% speed of light? Im rooting for antimatter propulsion. Wont things like time dilation make intersterstellar travel with rocket propulsion useless? We need some far out way to warp space to bypass that

  • science is really dope for believing that it would take four years to travel by light speed to get to the nearest star system. more like two to four hours. i see the nearest star in the sky every night around 6pm when i'm outside practicing my karate.

  • @battechno That light is from 4 years ago. The sun takes 8 minutes to get here, being we are around 30-50 au from the sun. (Cant remember exactly.)

  • just under 1 au

  • @petergriffenn 1 au is pretty small, it is 1 mill KM after all...

  • @JuniorDExchangecore 149 597 870.691 km. is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun.

    This translates into about one astronomical unit. The distance from the earth to the sun is the definition of astronomical unit. 1au

  • how dumb are you

  • I hope someday well have an engine capable of going faster than light and runs on its own emission to go far out into space.

  • Even if we had some engine capable enough to travel faster than light (or even half as fast as light for that matter) our physical bodies would never be able to bear it... but hey who knows maybe we could build a craft that would make it like traveling in a jet plane someday. It's good to dream :-)

  • @jackbliss i agree with you

  • nothing goes faster then light

  • @IrishMinja what if physics has something else in mind? there is reason to believe the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit and every attempt to build or conceive of a perpetual motion machine has failed. if you want to travel to other stars you have to be patient enough for the journey.

    the most popular theories about physics could be overturned but i wouldnt hold my breath.

  • @IrishMinja the problem is that our eletrons travel at the light speed, so if you go faster, you will lose your eletrons and the structure of your molecules, things like water in your body will turn into basic ions like h+ and O-, so the only way is travel using some kind of gravitational anomaly becouse the aceleration and speed in this cases are not like normal and teorical have no limit as down a event horizont the light travel faster in a vetorial way.

  • @wesleysidney ya maybe we could created like a slip space bubble in the ship where we are moving at ftl speeds, but inside the bubble we are going at about 50 mph or something reasonable. Maybe we could find some kind of forth dimension thing where we apply enough energy into a certain direction and literally tear space open and travel in a space with no laws the we leave kinda like in halo. Sorry to go science fiction on ya.

  • @IrishMinja lol you crazy

  • @wesleysidney i am indeed insane but you know what? life is a lot more fun this way.

  • @IrishMinja

    such a spacecraft must have an epic name.

    It shall be called HORSE DICK.

  • @IrishMinja if only we COULD go faster than light

    it's physically impossible, which sucks

    and if we DO go at the speed of light, we become infinitely thinned out

  • @gerb1lmage thinned?

  • @IrishMinja The beauty of it is that we don't need to exceed the speed of light to get there. Theoretically the trip could only take a few months, days or even seconds depending on how close we approach the speed of light. And when I say the time the journey takes, I strictly mean for the astronauts. Not how long it appears to take according to observers on Earth.

  • @IrishMinja You need about 900,000 mach, which is a lot.

  • Cool! Maybe one day we will go there!

  • @jamieball i hope so :P

  • Coooool!! I wanna go there!

  • you'd die.

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