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by anon1mous 3839 days ago
No, if we really wanted we could build an H-Bomb spaceship in a decade or two and fly to the nearest stars in a few decades.
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It takes forever to get there. We know of no habitable exoplanet yet, so when you do get there, you still live in a tin can in orbit.

I'm not saying we'll never make it. I'm saying the magnitude of the effort is enormous. In a sense, Sart Trek and Star Wars have done a disservice to space exploration by making it seem so easy.

The scales of energy, time, and complexity involved are colossal.