How Long Would It Take Us To Go To Pluto And Proxima Centauri?
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How Long Would it Take Us to Get to Pluto?
Once upon a time, in 1930, there was a little 11-year-old girl called Venetia. One morning, as she was eating breakfast with her grandfather, it struck her to suggest calling the newly discovered planet Pluto. And that’s exactly what happened!
Pluto is a really cool place in outer space! It's much smaller than Earth's Moon, and it has a nice heart-shaped glacier that's the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. It’s an icy dwarf planet that is very, very far away from us. It's so cold that nothing can live on it. It's about half the size of the United States and it's so far away from the Sun that it takes over 30 years for it to go around the Sun once!
Pluto has blue skies, and it has spinning moons that look like they're dancing in the sky. There are also really tall mountains like the ones here on Earth, and when it snows, the snow is red!
Have you ever wondered how long it would take us to get to Pluto? The answer lies within the vastness of space and the technology we have available to us.
How long would it take us to go to Proxima Centauri?
That of one day reaching out and touching the stars is a relatively recent desire of our species...We can perhaps date its appearance to 1838, the year, that is, when the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel first succeeded in determining the distance to a star and clarifying the extent of the problem we faced.
A dream, we said,,,,, but with recent advances in technological development it seems that dream is slowly becoming a reality...hand in hand with our growing awareness of the limited resources and environmental problems we face here on Earth.
Indeed, stars are far, far too far away... But, there you go... If there were an exoplanet with some Earth-like qualities within a radius of a few light-years (not a hundred or a thousand, as is the norm) then yes, this could work!
It would do a bit like the Moon, which served as a first step, a spur to get us to the other planets... We could start seeing interstellar space as a sea sprinkled with islands, rather than as the current unreachable void.
What a pity!
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00:00 Intro
00:02 How Long Would It Take Us To Get To Pluto?
12:12 How Long Would It Take Us To Get To Proxima Centauri?
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