2069? My thirteen year old will be 65.
Gonna be some very interesting technological developments by then.
And deficit spending is a problem now? Wait until 2069. What a joke.
The flagship of this armada will be called the Jupiter II.
Ok predicting right now, this mission is not going to happen.
43 years to get a probe there and 4.3 years to send or receive a signal to it. Add those to 2069 and you get your first close up pics back in about the year 2117. And entire century from now.
The Dems block all large-scale science projects.
10% of the speed of light is going to require a massive amount of energy to achieve. Also consider the navigation system you would need to have, going some 18,600 miles per second means that one would need a very long amount of time to avoid an object that is on a collision course as the inertia of an object moving that fast would require huge sums of energy to change direction. Lets also not forgot that it would also take a very long time to slow down to achieve orbit around the star.
The Robinson family has been selected to go. Major Don West. I have a sneaking feeling that Dr. Zachary Smith will find a way to get passage. And don’t forget to have a robot.
I was wondering why they picked 2069. Then I realized they have to time the flyby of Uranus
The probe is going to send back some really blurry pictures if it is moving at 10% of the speed of light. If they are planning on slowing it down before it gets there it will take twice as long and require twice the energy.
If NASA succeeds at achieving ten percent of light speed with a spacecraft...
...the craft will be moving at 18,628 miles per second, too fast to slow down, and a little over six years after that the fairly short stream of data will arrive at Earth -- assuming anyone is still listening for the signal.
Ummm, what about cosmic ray shielding?
Just make sure Dr Smith doesn’t sneak on board right before take-off
(Worst special effects ever - for those who know the show I am referring to.)
Silly
So it will take 44 years to get there.
What is Congress zeroes out the budget after 10 years?