I stopped watching Kurzgesagt years ago after they were exposed and decided to watch this video as I was curious (huge mistake) Absolutely terrible, they try to cover their ridiculous doomerism with "well maybe it could happen, the NYT was wrong about humans flying!" Interstellar is VERY hard with not a lot of rewards for the ones onboard but, we tend to forget people exist that will give their whole lives to a mission exploring another solar system and we know how to design the vehicles for such. We will 100% see interstellar unmanned probe missions in our lifetime and possibly even manned ones. Humans will always push towards the next frontier, this weird anti-space doomerism is not going to stop us

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Kurzgesagt is one of the things which got me interested in science. Their videos are still very well made and they can be genuinely educational. It just sucks they got co opted by some shady organizations. 🙁
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99% of big “educational” channels getting taken over by organizations for propaganda speaks well of the industry 🙂‍↕️
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Manned interstellar mission in our lifetime!? We haven’t even visited our closet planetary neighbors. We genuinely will have to invent a kraken drive in the next 5 years to even concieve of something like that. Is it possible? Yes but unfortunately the general public doesn’t care
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lol the public has literally no say in the accelerating spaceflight industry. Those days are over
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Nah it’s pretty true. Unmanned probes I can see. But I absolutely don’t see how you can get crewed ships up to relativistic speeds. Unless ppl somehow accept generation ships which is very very radical.
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“I don’t understand rocketry, here’s how this thing is impossible!!!”
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What makes you think there will be unmanned probe missions in our lifetimes? Did you even watch Kurzgesagt video? Do you have any counter arguments? It's like saying: "People will run a marathon in 10 minutes, because the human spirit will always push us forward". No it doesn't.
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lol yes I watched it and he has no idea what he’s talking about (on purpose) it’s literally assuming Interstellar with current technology
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I don't think we'll see manned missions for many generations. We haven't even stepped foot on Mars and we have no idea of the long term effects of spin gravity or low gravity environments.
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We went from the first satellite to men on the Moon in just 11 years, space is accelerating rapidly with nothing stopping it.
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I will die happy if in my lifetime space mining seems like a viable industry, because it means we will basically have infinite resources for future generations
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Space mining will start within 10 years on the Moon
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They are right though, we are hopelessly underpowered and unprepared for a manned mission to interstellar space. Nothing we have today has any fart of a chance to go interstellar
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“We can’t do it in a day so it’s impossible” What a stupid point
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Thank you for posting this, I wanted to say the exact same but my platform ain't big enough to get the attention
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Ugh, so disappointing. There was a point in time where they genuinely expanded people's minds, but now they disseminate pop science slop, wacky scenarios, and clickbait titles.
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Mainstream "science" videos are just pure slop at this point. 99.9% of them waste 30 mins of your time without showing what laws of physics they base their talk on. Veritasium is probably on top of that list.
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Designing the craft and rockets is literally the easiest part. It's the propulsion and fuel needed to do it which is hard. We know how to, we just dont currently have the technological power too, atleast not for something of that capacity, like human exploration.
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true
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I expect it to be driven indirectly by NIMBYs. Distant settlements in hostile environments have historically been driven by religious fundamentalists and similar groups of disliked but like-minded people. When earth orbit and the moon are saturated with habitats, it will be other planets and their orbits. When those are full, it'll be the belts. When the belts are full, it'll be gradually expanding further out. The nearest star is about 268k AUs from us, so if we assume a largely planar doubling of habitats (exponential growth as we disassemble the belts and the worse planets and moons) we should get there in about 32 doublings from early permanent space colonization. At peak rates seen on earth population growth, that would be about 1000 years.
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Not as bad as the recent infographics one, that was just stright up misinformation and insane levels of doomerism objectively, couldn't get through it, felt like ragebait specifically targeted at me. This one was watchable at least
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Indomitable human spirit and it's consequences
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For me, I see every video from a massive creator or author criticising or doubting interstellar travel as a dare to lock-in and make it a reality. Given how far technology has progressed over the years, I choose to be hopeful about it.
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They underestimate just how many insane frontierspeople exist. I would sign up to live for the next 300 years in a spartan sardine box to visit another star system without hesitation.
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