Worse odds than the lottery.

[WarpathEQ]

Just wait until they unleash the Schwartz....Our Schwartz is bigger then their schwartz

[magnetaress]

The Space Force's $29.4 billion proposed budget for FY 2025 is the smallest request of the U.S. armed forces, with the overall Air Force request being $217.5 billion. The Army is requesting $185.9 billion, and the Department of the Navy—including the Marine Corps—is requesting $255.7 billion.

29bil would get u to alpha centaur imho. Especially if you don't need to tool up ur own factory for ur ship. Definitely could get a pizza to mars.

[Trexller]

oh man it would cost like 29bil to get a pizza to mars unfortunately

alpha centauri would be more than 29trill

[Pulgasari]

Originally Posted by Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

oh man it would cost like 29bil to get a pizza to mars unfortunately

alpha centauri would be more than 29trill

Not sure why starkind wants to go to a binary system anyway. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We have Red Dwarf at home.

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by Pulgasari [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not sure why starkind wants to go to a binary system anyway. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

they are extremely common and proxima centauri is the closest of any other stars

single star systems like ours are sort of an exception to the rule

yet another of the trillion things that had to exist for life as we know it to exist

/check for intelligent design

God? I dont know

[Pulgasari]

Originally Posted by Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

they are extremely common and proxima centauri is the closest of any other stars

single star systems like ours are sort of an exception to the rule

yet another of the trillion things that had to exist for life as we know it to exist

/check for intelligent design

God? I dont know

Proxima is also believed to barf electricity on the regular. Sucks not being able to radio for help. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Trexller]

if anyone is listening at that distance, then they definitely know we're here

we've been broadcasting and detonating massive electro-magnetic devices for ~100 years

they have had plenty of time to realize those EM signatures are reality TV and h-bombs, and decide that they don't want none of whatever those crazy chimps are up to

[Duik]

We have Red Dwarf at home.

Triggered! Oh, not that red dwarf.
Confirmed, Pulgasari is a tease.

[magnetaress]

Honestly if you have the tech to do 4.1ly in a decade why not just do 8ly or 9ly?

I think we could build and launch a small robot ship to our close neighbor. Musk would if he knew the truth. If it wasn't done for profit. At cost. With secret tech and indentured scientists. It'd be even cheaper.

The government definitely doesn't want to deal with people knowing we have this capability tho. Especially not when Biden v Trump is on our ballots and inflation goes wild.

[Ekco]

i just hope the light of Betelgeuse going supernova reaches us soon. people gonna freak out

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00287.pdf