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Originally Posted by underGRADFlame
We as a species have a way of surprising our selves. Do I expect to see interstellar travel in my lifetime, no, but would it surprise me to see it happen, no. One small discovery or break though can lead to 1000 more significant ones which can lead to 100,000 more.
That something could be skunkworks fusion reactor. Who knows.
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Not likely,proposals for a fusion powered spacecraft could possible reach Jupitar in 4 months or about 3 times faster than it took Galileo at 44,000 mph.
Lets give this new spacecraft a speed of 120,000 mph,it would still take over 23,000 years to reach our nearest star system(Proxima Centauri) lets advance even more, a newer spacecraft reaches 1 million mph,it will still take 2800 years to get to Centauri.
The above poster is right,unless we break the laws of physics interstellar space travel is just a thing of fiction. propulsion systems within these laws will never work.
But your right about one thing, humans are surprising and maybe someday Einstein will be proven wrong.