20 or so years???
Try like many many lifetimes. We do not have the technology YET to even get close.
“Try like many many lifetimes. We do not have the technology YET to even get close.”
We would have to develop warp drive first. The idea is to somehow shrink space/time in front of your space ship and expand it behind. Then you could go faster than light.
If we used near light speed it would take something like 60,000 years to get to the closes star, let alone one of the cool habitable planets they are finding.
“Try like many many lifetimes. We do not have the technology YET to even get close.”
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Of course, you are right.
I failed to say “traveling the speed of light”.
I well remember back in 1958, when the search for ET radio signals became a serious endeavor.
The theory was that very high power VHF TV signals had begun in the late 30s and had time (11 years) to reach the nearest star and a return signal to be received 11 years later.
This was like a forerunner, or inspiration for SETI.
The distance factor is why I scoff at the UFO enthusiast
who think ET is zipping all over the planet today.
I guess we have to see if the SIFI concept of worm holes and parallel universes becomes fact.
I am not holding my breath, haha.