• Question: When do you think we will make it past our solar system?

    Asked by keep49hue on 23 Nov 2020.
    • Photo: Duncan Wallace

      Duncan Wallace answered on 23 Nov 2020:

      Using technology? Technically we already have with probes. But when will we send humans past our solar system? We could do so with today’s technology, but there’s not much point doing so without them being able to reach anything else. The ability to reach another star system (like Alpha Centauri) seems quite distant at the moment… maybe a few hundred years.

    • Photo: Danny Hnatyshin

      Danny Hnatyshin answered on 25 Nov 2020:

      Hard to say! With space probes definitely possible since there are technologies we know that could get spacecraft moving fast enough to make it feasible and might be even attempted before the end of the century.

      People on the other hand we don’t know if we should or can! There is so much radiation in space and it would be hard to design a spacecraft that would be safe for such a long journey. I don’t even have a guess on when we will get that kind of technology (or will) to do trips in person to other stars.

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