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You Will Never Leave This Solar System: 73,000 Years — Professor Edmund Whitmore
Welcome to The Ancient Dog. In this Fantasy Talk, AI-generated Professor Edmund Whitmore returns to make the argument nobody in the space industry wants you to sit with: you will never leave this solar system. Voyager 1 has been falling away from Earth for forty-nine years — at that speed, the nearest star is seventy-three thousand years away. The rocket equation is merciless, the human body breaks in ways we can’t fix, and the most serious attempt anyone ever made — Breakthrough Starshot, a hundred million dollars, Stephen Hawking’s name — went quietly dormant. The dream and the distance do not fit in the same room.
You understand the situation succinctly. We are not alone. Only problem is the huge size of universe. Light has not yet arrived on earth from far away galaxies, that is how big the universe is. Our own milky way galaxy is so huge, our spacecrafts are unable to escape it. Each of the zillion galaxies have zillions of stars and each star has planets. Life forms if the planet is exact correct distance from its Sun to achieve moderate temps we have on earth. Other planets in our solar system are either too hot or too cold. But since the number of planets in the universe is unimaginably large number, probability is very high that life exists on zillions of planets. Too bad the distances are so great. To make things worse, the universe is still expanding!
Our farthest flying spacecraft uses solar panels for power. As it gets farther away from our sun, there is less energy available as the distance from our sun increases.
To reach nearest solar system for us, the spacecraft will need to derive energy from the nearest sun. However the gap between the 2 suns is so great that the spacecraft simply dies from entering the vast dark space between the two suns. If we can’t even send a spacecraft to the nearest solar system, forget about ever reaching much farther away solar systems and their planets to discover life.
Radio waves travel at the speed of light. We’ve been listening to the universe for quite a while now. Not a peep. If we consider the fact that the universe appears to be much older than ourselves, than it would appear that we are indeed completely alone.
BUT, we must also consider God and his all-powerful self. Maybe this is just the universe he put us in. Maybe he has many more universes with lots of other folks in them. (?)