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auglitumo0 t1_j8tj1up wrote

Reply to comment by IntenseSun in NEW JWST DEEP FIELD - Pandora's Cluster by GeoGeoGeoGeo

Our children children children would be luckier if they can get there. Hopefully.

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FujiKilledTheDSLR t1_j8us5k1 wrote

Unless we find or somehow make a wormhole, very very unlikely.

When we launched the Voyager probes in 1977 the planets were aligned in a way that we could do a gravity assist with several planets (“the grand tour”), which only happens every 75 years. This is the best way we know to make something go really fast. The Voyagers are by far the fastest things humans have ever made (not including protons being shot around LHC). Since the launch in 1977, it’s travelled 0.002 light years. The closest star is 4.3 light years.

That means with the fastest possible launch, which we can only do every 75 years, it will still take about 98,900 years to reach the nearest star at only 4.3 light years away.

This isn’t even considering the ship with humans would have to have ways to produce food, support life, and deal with 3,200+ generations of humans. So yeah, it’s not even feasible to use normal space ships to reach even the nearest star, not to mention the things in this image that are hundreds, thousands, and millions of light years away.

Space is very big and very empty

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