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Can we build a Starship with our current technology in the next 10 years?

2 pointsby galazzahover 8 years ago

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informatimagoover 8 years ago
YES.<p>Remember that the only condition for a star ship, is to be able to have thrust all the time. Even a very small thrust is enough to reach relativistic speeds, and therefore make the travel-time human-scale. FOR THE TRAVELERS!<p>Now, the problem is that unless the travelers include the trillionaire that will finance the projects, nobody will want to finance a travel, where the travellers reach the destination after their dead, and can give back news only after the payers&#x27; children are dead.<p>But travelling one year on board to reach Proxima Centauri (4 light years away) wouldn&#x27;t even be tiring for the traveller.<p>(Ok, perhaps we could pay for this destination, after all, we&#x27;d get news about landing ten years later).
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shams93over 8 years ago
We&#x27;ve already sent 5 unmanned probes meant for interstellar space, one of them Voyager 1 is in interstellar space. Sending actual people is a tremendously hard thing to do, sending probes is much easier, we already have they&#x27;re just moving so slowly it will probably take 300 years to reach Alpha Centauri.
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