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7 posted on 01/09/2020 10:34:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)

Yeah,, I’m sure we will get that FTL drive on line soon. Wait what we can’t even get or own Astronauts to the ISS.

8 posted on 01/09/2020 10:37:42 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (WWG1WGA! Epstein did not kill himself! Eric Ciaramella, ERIC CIARAMELLA, ERICCIARAMELLA!)

I did a little research. There are two methods, at this time for space travel:
Solid/liquid fuel
ion propulsion.
You can’t load enough fuel on a rocket to go any great distance, so ion propulsion would be the better option. It is slower, however. Alpha Centauri is the closest star out of our solar system at 4.1 light years away. It would take 88000 years to get there. So at 101 light years it would take about 2 + million years to get to this planet (rounded off to the nearest “who gives a hoot”)