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Try this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus Also, I agree that the idea for interstellar travel ha

Try this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus Also, I agree that the idea for interstellar travel has some holes. Let me rephrase my argument as follows : for every accomplishment of mankind (airplanes, spaceflight, moon landing, nuclear, computers, internet), there have been just as many critics claiming that it isn't possible (they had their own set of reasons). And all of these technologies were much more infeasible compared to interstellar travel (and yet we did that). 5 years ago, would you have imagined ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion? Tech moves fast. There is no doubt in my mind that in a century, we will see interstellar travel like we do airplanes today. But this may well be wishful thinking because I really want this to be true.

samplatt 4y ago
>Project Daedalus That's not a manned craft, which is what we've been talking about so far. It also doesn't have the deceleration stage - Daedalus would flyby Barnard's Star at 12% the speed of light. If you hit a rock along the way at that speed, you're not gonna get any pretty pictures :-) >5 years ago, would you have imagined ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion? Absolutely! I think most people in my industry would have imagined ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion as they appear now 20-30 years ago, let alone 5. >And all of these technologies were much more infeasible compared to interstellar travel (and yet we did that). See... again, most of the problems faced by the "smaller" feats like airflight are engineering problems, not "this breaks Einsteinian physics" problems. When you're talking about interstellar flight you're running up hard against many fundamental constants of the universe, not just "we can't do that yet"