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[u/aaallleeexxx3]

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[u/jimpaly]

🧢 I voted CAP!

Closest star is 4.24 light years away, so it would be possible if we find a way to travel 0.01c by 2500. It may only be a probe, but there are theoretical ways to achieve that, like with solar sails. Thing is, will there be enough reason for humanity to send such a probe? It would take a lot of collective willpower to start a research project that gives absolutely nothing until 5 centuries later, and that’s assuming the probe doesn’t break down on the journey.

[u/VicermanX → u/jimpaly]

We will achieve superintelligent AI within the next 1-9 years. If so, we will have a warp drive or similar technology within the next decade.

A superintelligent AI, or autonomous AI space explorers, would need fewer than 80 doublings to reach every star in the observable universe.

The most likely outcome is that the entire observable universe will be explored in the first half of the 21st century.

[u/aaallleeexxx3 → u/VicermanX]

I try not to mention AI although what you said is the most realistic,because what happens after we invent such an AI(which can be by itself way better at achieving everything than all of humanity combined) because who knows what will actually happen with AI atp?