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Intelligent* life may exist elsewhere and just never be able or inclined to reach us. Say we find out there's intelligent life as close to us as Alpha Centauri.
by airstrike 3y ago
Intelligent* life may exist elsewhere and just never be able or inclined to reach us. Say we find out there's intelligent life as close to us as Alpha Centauri. It would still take us probably 100,000+ years to get there with current technology, so why even bother traveling? Even sending a probe would take thousands of years.
- CapitalistCartr 3y agoWe could achieve 5%+ C by using nuclear weapons as propulsion (Project Orion). Building a ship in space bigger than the Empire State Bldg. would be a massive undertaking, but we could arrive at a nearby system in the next century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion