Yes it is too good tone true!
At present speeds it would take hundreds of years to get there............
People are going to have to learn how to live generation after generation in deep space without resupply from Earth, if we are to colonize our solar system. That same technology will be used to send a human population on a one way trip to Proxima Centauri.
If you do the math, going at the speed of the Pluto probe, 54,726 years
Sounds about right.
true. so likely the jump won’t be attempted until travel speeds are quite close to the speed of light. So travel times would be 5 years one way—or about like sailing around the world in 1530.
My wag is that the technology for near speed of light travel won’t be available for 50 to 100 years. Hard to say. Real quantum computers look to be only 10-15 years off. They will greatly accelerate developments as faster computers have a way of compressing time.
More like 45,000 years.
judging by what I’m reading out of silicon valley—we’re in the beginning years of another big technological change like what happened in the late 90’s.
Not if we ‘jack one of those gray, almond eyed bitchez rides!