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“You can check out anytime you like. But you can never leave.”. Maybe that was the meaning of that song after all.
Anyway, maybe closely observing and simulating space travel from here is most of what’s going to happen for a very long while.
Not even for a very long time. It simply won’t happen, ever. Unless we miraculously discover ways to travel at the speed of light or hibernate for a few centuries. Even then, we’d only be reaching the nearest solar system, which probably isn’t very interesting anyway.
Edit: heck, even at the speed of light this stuff is very unpractical. Sure, Proxima is doable, but finding something worth finding is a whole different story. Big chance we’d still have to travel hundreds, or thousands, if not millions of years at the speed of light to find something to live on, for example.
well good news, our interstellar ambitions are theoretical at best and we are focusing on understanding our home system. 😆
What blows my mind is that as the universe is expanding, everything is moving away from everything else. So every single second we lose access to thousands of stars for ever and ever. They’re so far away that we could never catch up to them. There are parts of the universe that physics says we will never get to visit.
Cool Worlds has some great videos on subjects related to our solar system, alien life, FTL travel, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab/videos
