Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System

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9 days later FTL is discovered

Aww ur cute….you think to human 😂 to physical….to now human …you gotta think outside the box duh

Who ever is advising you is probably the reincarnation of the people who proved it 0:23 was impossible to fly; so ignorant. Let’s say we never solve faster than light travel, all we have to do is create a space colony with a million people and set it loss into the unknown, they may go through a few generations before reaching another star system, but there will be no trouble getting people to sign up for the trip. This is only one alternative, there are others. You are probably right about no one alive seeing this happen, but even that might be wrong. Science is moving pretty fast.

Stopped watching when you falsely claimed that we could build a rocket that could achieve 20% of the speed of light. You didn't consider what it would take to do that. Robert Frisbee looked at what it would actually take using, you know, physics and stuff.

Robert Frisbee’s Anti-matter rocket

The top stage is 400,000 tons, the size of an Ultra-large crude oil carrier, for the engine (not crew compartment). It has 165,000 tons of anti-matter that would cost $62 trillion per GRAM. Total cost? $10 Septillion, 21 billion times more than the total wealth on Earth. It's 700 km long. That's longer than the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Why? To get the crew far enough from the engine that the energetic gamma rays released from the anti-matter reaction wouldn't fry the crew without having to add thousands of tons of shielding. It had a total of 100 tons of payload (crew compartment, crew, and provisions). That's about the weight of a loaded 737. It would take 50 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star, NOT 20 years (you accelerate to 0.2C for the first half of the distance but then have to decelerate for the remainder). The total weight of provisions loaded onto a nuclear submarine is about 1 ton per person per year, not counting oxygen. So a 50-year voyage would need ~50 tons of provisions per person. So we're talking a spacecraft that would cost 21 billion times more than the total wealth on Earth to carry MAYBE two people to Proxima Centauri in 50 years.

Next time look at your assumptions more carefully.

just use astrophage

Tbh, I'd rather set foot on a Mars like planet with my gear on, than an inhabited planet with oxigen rich atmosphere. As I tentatively take off my helmet I'm soon to die. Because it'll also be teeming with bacteria and viruses that have evolved without you. When a virus that's harmless to a cow jumps to you it's a bad end. It's evolved to survive inside the cow, but knows not how to deal with you, so gruesome future follows, usually short. With everything alien and first breath containing countless pathogens probably, the chance something goes wrong escalates massively. So death will be highly unpleasant and torturous life brief. Dead planets seem like paradise.

Wait till 3000

You're not considering space contracts at relativistic speed so for the traveler would be shorter time not for the ppl on earth though

As much as AI sucks the reality is that a starship operated by an AI could continue on into space for near infinity or until systems begin to fail. If there are advancements in AI and we sort out our problem with cryogenics then we could send humans into space in a freezer and an AI system could wake them up when it finally discovers a habitable planet in a few thousand years.

Humanity is the biggest challenge that will ever face humanity, space could be second

We'll just go extinct in the next 100 years or so, why even think about solar system.

Imagine going back to the 1200's, and telling people about how it's possible to fly around the world in less than a day. I imagine they wouldn't believe me, and that would be based on known facts from the society I was speaking in. My point, the human race doesn't know enough about the entire universe to put periods at the end of these sentences. 🤷

0:57 "we don't either" yeah humanity is absolutely GRILLED

It would be cool if we could just figure out a way to fly out to Neptune and back in a reasonable amount of time.

We need Rick

My Childhood: We can explore space!
This Video: SNL Debby Downer.

We have invented things today that was more crazy than science fiction 100 years ago. There have newer been as many enginers in the world as today. We have AI that are going to help us create amazing things within the next 20 years and more. Just wait.

Got me worried for a second, good thing Bob’s on it

I suddenly feel very claustrophobic

Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System – well, not with that attitude