Government officials are publicly admitting they "knew about aliens but lied"? Techbros are jacking themselves to death about how aliens superior intelligence has let them trap us somehow? Apparently the government has new terminology for these space aliens that are supposed to exist? How much of this is real? Or is it mainly just bullshit?
Pretty sure it's all bullshit. I'll believe it when someone demonstrates conclusive proof. This is one of those "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". The amount of energy and resources someone would need to fly interstellar distances is absurd. Unless someone can show me a space ship it's not worth my time.
I think with even current, possible theoretical models of an orion drive that uses antimatter-matter reactions we would only reach around 40% at most of the speed of light. Not bad, but at 99% it would take 4 years? Not exactly sure how that would scale down.
Too much sci-fi media has poisoned people's brains. You're absolutely correct about how much energy it would require to leave a solar system, then travel to another. Traveling at the speed of light would still take several years to go to our nearest neighbor. And the closer you get to the speed of light, the more energy you need to go forward as your mass increases.
If you fired a speck of dust at the speed of light at something, it would hit with more force than a nuclear bomb. So imagine how much force is required to propel a huge ass ship.
traveling at high fractions of the speed of light means that trip time from the travellers perspective is reduced due to relativistic effects. that said, this changes nothing about the other challeneges.
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Flying all the way across space just to do a few whirls in the sky above the upright ape meatsacks like one of us riding a motorcycle from Spain to Japan to pop a wheelie in front of a beetle and then peace out✌️