Proposed spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/proposed-spacecraft-could-carry-up-to-2-400-people-on-a-one-way-trip-to-the-nearest-star-system-alpha-centauri
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Submission statement (from the article):
>Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to our own. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, the engineers say in their project brief, meaning many of its potential passengers would only know life on the craft.
>Chrysalis is designed to house several generations of people until it enters the star system, where it could shuttle them to the surface of the planet Proxima Centuri b — an Earth-size exoplanet that is thought to be potentially habitable.
Would that be the B Ark, because I can give you a name of a good captain provided the autopilot is pre programmed.
Interesting concept, I would be curious to an estimation of cost.
It would be a 58km long ship and it has tech we haven’t developed yet, like fusion reactors.
Oumuamua looking thing 🙂
Proxima B is sending us their refugees!
Might as well say we will develop the starship enterprise – warp drives, artificial gravity – unlimited resources… science fantasy
Technically possible now because they discovered how to freeze an embryo from 1994 and still birth a baby from it. So long as the crew was going to colonize in the ship for the 400 years to discover a habitable planet (which they probably won’t)
We’ll call it the Alpha Centauri Initiative and their leader will be called a Pathfinder.
This will be such a good sociological experiment when the whole crew goes mad and tribal and forgets everything about where they came from or where they’re going.
And then we win a technology victory, re-load the save, and restart to do it all over again
Who’s paying for that? Europe? Certainly not NASA.
Hey I was writing a cartoon sitcom about this. I should pick it back up.
what a waste of engineering resources. how about we start with providing clean drinking water for everyone?
Looks like an arts project ? Most of the “experts” seem to have no expertise at all in this field?
Put all the tech billionaires on it & whomever they’d choose to travel with.
Well you just wait. My proposed ship is going to hold 10,000 people and we’ll be able to go to every exoplanet in the galaxy!
stick all the fucking billionaires on it and get them off to deep space.
And when they arrive, they what? Die?
Alpha Centauri likely doesn’t contain any habitable planets…
There likely aren’t that many people interested of going – just to die 100-s of years before arrival and leave future generations on an increasingly decaying ship in cramped conditions and with limited supplies.
Imagine the look on the alpha centaurs faces when a derelict ship with 2400 human skeletons shows up in their solar system
Yes! Elon should definitely take Big Balls etc. and go scope it out.
We already know Alpha Centauri is likely not human-habitable because binary systems create oblong orbits.
This whole “we need to find a new planet” craze is just proof that everyone “in the know” knows we’re all screwed.
There is no “Planet B” for us – mammals have evolved for millions of years to acclimate to *this* particular spinning rock.
Hah. I bet the LOSER president couldn’t pull this off. Theres no way he’s fit for space travel. Poor loser won’t be known as even the second greatest president in history (still Obama#1).
^/s ^take ^the ^bait ^please.
I remember the Sid Meier Alpha Centauri games…I wonder if I would join the University or Morgan
Guys they literally know Earth is cooked why do you think they’re all trying to leave so bad!
Will they be telephone sanitizers, account executives, and DOGE?
The dust from their remains will enjoy their new home in Alpha Centauri.
400 years without a civil war with humans onboard. I doubt.
“…meaning many of its potential passengers would only know life on the craft.”
Which, sorry WHAT, passenger are they counting that would survive the 400 year journey?
All the people who volunteered to go on this clearly have bought into this project. Their children and future generations may not. Apart from the obvious life supporting requirements like oxygen,food,water, medicine etc future generations may decide they don’t want to do it and turn round or go somewhere else or split into factions and have a war.
If they’re going to design a ship using hypothetical technology, why not power it with anti-matter and get them there in 20 years instead of 400.
They should call it pie. As in ‘Pie in the sky’
Something like this wouldn’t be built for another 100-200 years