Reaching The Stars Is Easy...

....compared to some things.

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[Cerbethys]

Can I ask you one question - This voyager probe you speak off, I have always wondered how it managed to get this far without something to run of, so what exactly is it run on? It is evident it is not run of fuel or electricity..that would be impossible, so what exactly? Peace.

[philhellenes]

@Cerbethys Good question, but a better question might be, "What's to stop it?"

Anything in motion will continue in motion, in a straight line, unless acted on by a force (or combination of forces). It isn't immediately apparent to us, stuck on a planet swamped with forces of so many kinds. That's why it took until Newton's day (the 1600s) to figure it out. We pointed voyager in the right direction, gave it an initial shove from a rocket, the rest was "gravitational slingshots" from planets.

[captain150]

Not gonna lie, Philhellenes' videos are of a caliber comparable to Carl Sagan's. They deserve to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the USA.

[monochromidxliquid]

Mr. phil

 you have some very impressive video's, somehow your video's put me at ease.

never stop making them :)

[british123able]

one idea could be to distort space,proton bombardment engines will distort space-time and effectively make a short cut through space. how short you may ask? that depends on the intensity of the protons being bombarded.i had a dream about this. thats all i remember

[CSRiddick]

Traveling at sub-light speed and even at light speed is unpractical.I believe it will be more easy to try and bend the space and make a "worm whole"....we will need to somehow create an huge gravitational force to bend the space and also we need to somehow stop the worm whole from collapsing in an black whole.But as phil said our social and cultural problems is what keeps us back ,for example we are more able to go on Mars today than we where able to go on the Moon 40 years ago.

[PhysxTV]

@Cerbethys you say it like the voyager probe is a myth.

[mithrilaztex]

"The stars would weep, if they knew of our existence."  One of the more profound things I've ever heard.

[Zeldarulah]

This is probably the most brilliant video I've ever seen, and yet it has less views than some of my videos. Why?

[itsjustameme]

@itsjustameme

(cont)

It brings with it terraforming potential. When it gets there the mining ships start herding astroids towards a planet bombarding it with water, and planting fast spreading plants and algae to make oxygen for the atmosphere.

And in orbit the mothership sits like a small moon overseeing the terraforming and keeping the people alive for the generations it takes for the terraforming to take place to a point where the planet is habitable without protective gear.

[itsjustameme]

I envision a mothership sailing through space. It has people living for generation after generation while the ship sails through space at a modest speed compared to what you describe.

The ship itself could be an iron astroid hollowed out and the insides made habitable, airtight and well shielded from radiation. Inside mining ships are built on huge production lines. Mining ships mining nearby astroids and comets for resources, fuel and building materials.

(cont)

[AlexandruSD]

If you follow this logic, in a few thousands years we could turn the solar system into a Dyson swarm... with the rest of the Galaxy following after at most a few million years. That doesn't seem to have happened yet. So, we could be the first technologically advanced civilization in the galaxy; alternatively, it's our fate to collapse (as those before us) after a brief growth spurt fueled by non-renewable resources... Never to rise again. Or maybe we're someone's nature preserve. :)

[imr22]

At this point i think we should concentrate on colonising the Moon or Mars, simply to ensure the future of our species. After that i believe we will discover new methods of propulsion, or at least use our current knowledge to create very small fusion reactors we could use to power our ships to the stars.

There is definitely hope.