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Based on Voyagers current speed it would take approximately 18000 years to reach this system, the referance of a jet airplane taking millions of years seemed a
by sigmaprimus 10y ago
Based on Voyagers current speed it would take approximately 18000 years to reach this system, the referance of a jet airplane taking millions of years seemed a bit misleading, with current technology and using gravitational boosting I would think that the time could be much less. Maybe it would be worth sending a probe? Granted I will never see it in my lifetime but it might be a project I could get behind.
- 83457 10y agoProbably used jet airplane more of a frame of reference for the general public.
- pvg 10y ago18k years is a very long time, though. There is a project looking at the feasibility of getting very small probes somewhere 10 times closer in perhaps decades rather than millennia: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/science/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/science/alpha-centauri-br...
- sigmaprimus 10y agoThat is exactly what I meant, thank you for the link. I defiantly would support projects like that.
- pshposh 10y agoI suspect you meant definitely and not defiantly.
- Cyphase 10y agoUnless you're talking about a Starshot-type probe, I think it's probably better to wait for improved propulsion technology that would end up arriving before a probe we sent now.