There is a "Highly Habitable" Planet Just 4 light years from Us, Astronomers Say

The Space Academy ^ | June 11, 2023

[ShadowAce]

Voyager I has been moving away for 45 years and is just over 18 light-minutes distant. or about 1/1600th of the distance to Proxima.
Going to need something faster than chemical rockets.

Voyager I does not have chemical rockets as a means of propulsion. Those are only for adjustments and positioning.

Voyager I has been using gravity wells of the planets to accelerate outward.

However, you point is well taken--chemical rockets would not last long enough to get to anywhere else. We can't store it on board at launch, and there isn't enough fuel between there and here to harvest.

[null and void]

As per the foreign army, have no idea what scenario you’re thinking of there.

ScenarioS

How soon they forget.

No dramatic images of the Bay of Pigs, but I'm pretty sure that if they had a chance to avoid being at the mercy of Castro and Guevara...

[antidemoncrat]

Hurray. Let’s get up a gofundme page to enable that to happen.

[JimRed]

Send a self-piloting drone ship with a program to explore the entire surface of the planet and send the data back to Earth...

By the time the data arrives back the whole probe program will be long forgotten.

[JimRed]

We can’t even get back to the Moon so far.

No so much "can't" as didn't. We could have.

[from occupied ga]

There is probably life elsewhere in the universe, but it is rendered irrelevant by physics. We can’t get there from here and they can’t hear from there. Consider Newton: E=1/2mv² meaning that to travel say 50% of light speed you have to supply 1/8mC² energy to whatever mass you want to go that fast. Chemical energy tops out at .000057 light speed (voyager I) nuclear power still nowhere near enough. How much uranium mass is actually converted to energy? About .1% of the fuel mass in a reactor is converted to energy. So .1% of the fuel mass is the most you have to accelerate the reactor and the entire rest of the vessel to whatever velocity you can get.

oh wait I know how to solve it!! We can use magic wind and solar and batteries just like magic EVs will use. Unless you lifespan runs in the 100,000s of years interstellar travel remains in the realm of science FICTION.

[from occupied ga]

You’re a little off - it’s 1/116800 of the way.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ah.

In that case, I don't want to go.