>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

>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"