Hopefully we'll have the technology before too long to start sending out ultra light probes swift enough to reach exoplanets within 50 light years in a few hundred years. Exciting stuff.
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I wonder how deceleration would work with those technologies? If you decelerate too hard you destroy the probe but decelerating early means you're going to have to travel a long way at a fraction of light speed so it still ends up taking forever. Without star trek "inertial dampeners" things remain a long way away no matter what we have.
[–] http404 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hopefully we'll have the technology before too long to start sending out ultra light probes swift enough to reach exoplanets within 50 light years in a few hundred years. Exciting stuff.
[–] DickHertz ago
I wonder how deceleration would work with those technologies? If you decelerate too hard you destroy the probe but decelerating early means you're going to have to travel a long way at a fraction of light speed so it still ends up taking forever. Without star trek "inertial dampeners" things remain a long way away no matter what we have.
[–] ForgotMyName 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Then, after hundreds of years of travel, we only have to wait another 50 years for any signals to start reaching us!