/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10147872
>Nuclear is the only viable option for space travel outside the solar system.

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

>>9553417

Self-referential feedback loop, contaminated by emotional bias and an imprecise memory storage system.

>>8767101
>is a generational space ship even possible? aka a spaceship that takes hundreds of years to reach the destination. Is it possible to store enough energy to provide food and clean water for a trip that long?

Stupidest possible way to travel to the stars.

We'll almost certainly use nanostarship Von Neumann machines to reach another star (probably Proxima Centauri), then send them all the data they need to build a colony after they arrive and construct a receiving station...including the DNA required for humans, animals, plants, etc. Then they'll construct more VN machines and repeat the process.

That's presuming people are still physical and biological, and not virtual, in which case, fuck the colony...just convert the whole P. Centauri planetary system into a matrioshka brain.

>>8611460
They became number one

>>8467701

No.

Pointers don't have thumbs, and don't point with their paws anyway.

Deal with it.