I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild today. It was even uglier than I expected it to be, and I expected it to be really, really ugly.
It’s like if a DeLorean got the dry heaves.
Or an idiot bought an EV company and forced this on his team.
@Lulz4l1f3 @JeffreyMHebert 😡😤 MELON HUSK IS NOT ... ummm ... not ... 😶
Aww, fuck it! He's a flaming moron. 😑
Did anybody explain the distances involved to him?
The closest star system to ours is alpha centauri, and it takes light (186, 282 mps) 4.25 years to get here.
So assuming you could go in a straight line (you cannot, it's moving) and assuming you could go 1/10th the speed of light (you can't because space dust would rip your spacecraft apart), it would take 40 years to travel the 40, 000 billion kilometers.
@Lulz4l1f3 @JeffreyMHebert Getting a ship to 10-20% light speed is within the limits of our foreseeable technology - say, within the next 100 years or so. Several proposals were made in the 1960s & '70s. Getting a CREWED ship to go that fast is a different matter. And then there's the issue of keeping everyone alive for a trip to the nearest habitable exoplanet, wherever that turns out to be. If Der Muskenführer thinks SpaceX can manage this in the coming decades, he's severely deluded.
@Lulz4l1f3 @JeffreyMHebert To get to any star in a human lifespan, the ship will need to travel at a significant fraction of light speed to bring relativistic time dilation into play. At 0.8c, ship time is about half what an outside observer would experience; at 0.9c, it's 1/4. If they hope to return home alive, they'd need to add a few more 9's after that decimal.
You'd need a crap-ton of energy to achieve .8c.
Get back to me when something achieves .01c.
@Lulz4l1f3 @JeffreyMHebert See: "Breakthrough Starshot," a project to accelerate postage stamp sized space probes to 0.1 to 0.2c using lasers and light sails. So far, no result, but work is underway to launch hundreds or thousands of the tiny probes in the coming decade.
"So far, no result,".
Get back to me when you postal stamp achieves .01c, or about 7 million miles an hour.