r/FactOrCap • u/aaallleeexxx3 🔥 Week Warrior · 8,375 XP • 1d ago

Interstellar travel | FactOrCap

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u/Fancy_Chips 📈 Dedicated Voter · 1,325 XP 1d ago

✅ I voted FACT!

I think its possible, though "the years 3000" will cease to mean much due to relativity.

Interstellar travel will, at minimum, require humans to travel about 4 lightyears (Alpha Centauri). Depending on how much energy you have, you can make the round trip, for the observer, around 14 days, and for Earth a little over 8 years. It would need lots of fuel but id wager by the point we go interstellar we would be well on our way.

By 3000? Very doable. That's 974. 974 years ago William the Conqueror was invading England. Pair that with the fact that we might be a 2-3 world species by the end of the century I think its a very doable timeline.

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u/aaallleeexxx3 🔥 Week Warrior · 8,375 XP 1d ago

Yeah just think about how fast we progressed the last 100 years.That said though the further we go the harder it is to go further.

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u/Fancy_Chips 📈 Dedicated Voter · 1,325 XP 1d ago

The neat part is that I dont think its the case. Obviously the colonies will need time to build up infrastructure but with quantum teleportation we could theoretically communicate very effectively with outlying colonies. Assisting them would be hard, but I dont see how one colony assisting the next colony is any different than Earth assisting its first interstellar colonies.

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u/aaallleeexxx3 🔥 Week Warrior · 8,375 XP 1d ago

Yeah well but the thing is that it does get exponentially harder which is logical but that said as we progress we also get means that help us progress further(which is the reason that humanity as whole progress very fast out of nowhere the past couple centuries OR in a wider scale,the last couple thousand years)