Can We Really Get To Alpha Centauri?
Guide to Space Ep. 245
Can We Really Get To Alpha Centauri?
Airdate: 5/09/2016
Comments (8)
I love hearing about technology I've read about in science fiction, but assumed I would never see in real life. Thank you for this awesome video series.
Oh... with 0.2c final speed, the acceleration will break the ship into atoms. And that's only one effect... Better use this idea for Solar System, at lower speeds (but still faster than New Horizons)
Yeah, I didn't mention that it's 60,000 Gs of acceleration.
You forgot the annotation for the video in the beginning
My bad, it is there, but just as a link, not a rectangular
Nice-- it would seem that the sail is powered by the Photoelectric effect. Nice.
Thanks for the shoutout Fraser ! Guess we will need a warpdrive to visit other systems.
I wonder how much laser light may miss the sail. I wonder what that would look like from the perspective of other aliens. If we do that, wouldn't other aliens be doing that? Are we looking for these flashlight signals? What is the optimal frequency of light?