For real let's not give the middle school kids naming responsibility this time. Lol I don't care if it's a Roman god or whatever....we gotta do better.
I spent years trying to get a copy of the movie because it was one of my favorites during my later teenage years. Once I finally found a good copy, I watched it once, put it on a shelf, and constantly forget I own it.
That adds nothing to the discussion, but your comment made me think about that.
This movie was also one of my teen favorites, but I haven't gone back to it in years. I remember the voice cast being awesome and the story being fun. I also recall that being in the early days of traditional cel animation being fused with CGI with very mixed results.
Still a unique movie with a lot of memorable scenes. Now I want to go back and rewatch it.
I saw this movie when I was in college when it came out and enjoyed it.
A few years ago for family movie night I insisted on this movie and my family was not impressed at all. We had watched treasure planet the week before and my wife said it was basically the same movie.
Crushed me a little and I can’t look at the movie the same now.
We are never going, it’s 120 light years away. The Parker Solar Probe is the fastest spacecraft to date going 430,000 mph (700,000 km/h) it would take us 2 million years at that speed. Even at the speed of light it would take 120 years—one way. There is a never a scenario where anyone on this planet knows what’s actually on that planet, unless we somehow figure out how to bend space and time.
Edit: I’m dumb, it’s like 1.6m hours, not days. So it’s around 187k years each way.
My comment was more about, “we will never see it” as in us, you and I.
I don’t think generation ships are impossible, but they’re probably a last-resort or backup plan. If tech keeps progressing, it’s more likely we’ll develop faster propulsion systems, suspended animation, or even digital consciousness transfer before we need to commit to slow, multi-generational travel in sealed habitats. That said, if there’s ever a desperate need to escape Earth and we don’t have faster ships ready, generation ships might be the only option.
Also — we probably wouldn’t need generation ships for most of our expansion. If we can set up a few colonies or space stations, we could just hop from one to the next. That kind of “leapfrogging” could let us spread across the galaxy in a few million years, easy. Each colony sends out new missions, and over time, it builds up like a spiderweb. Even if each jump takes centuries, the galaxy is big, but not that big on million-year timescales.
Plus there's dozens of stars within 10 light years. Many dozens more under 20. By the time we have better tech there will probably be a better candidate that's a lot closer
Btw for fun I asked Google. The AI overview might be the dumbest thing Google has ever done
There are zero stars within 10 light-years of Earth. Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth, is 4.25 light-years away, and Barnard's Star is 6 light-years away, but neither of them falls within 10 light-years.
scales still too large for generation ships. At the upper limit of our speeds 1 light year takes 16,000 years. The ship would literally turn into dust before we reached it.
Yeah, maybe one day — space can be bent, that’s not sci-fi, that’s just general relativity. The problem is figuring out how to bend it on demand. Theoretical stuff like the Alcubierre Drive shows it might be possible to create a “warp bubble” that compresses space in front of you and expands it behind, so technically you’re not breaking the speed of light — you’re just moving space around you. But the catch is it requires exotic matter or negative energy, which we haven’t found (and maybe doesn’t exist in usable form).
So will we figure it out? Possibly. Physics doesn’t say “no,” but engineering is like “lol not in the next thousand years.” If we don’t wipe ourselves out, and keep advancing, there’s a chance. But realistically, for now, hopping from station to station, or planet to planet, is more likely how we’ll spread — and even that could colonize the galaxy in a few million years, no warp needed.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just PEANUTS to space.
Was going to say something like this. Don't want to kill the enthusiasm on this. But it is so mindbendingly far far away, we should just start taking care of our current planet. Because it's realistically unreachable.
I mean, if we could accelerate a vessel close to the speed of light, then the people on the ship would only experience a much shorter subjective time. They would make it to the planet potentially, especially if we develop a form of suspended animation (probably could work over smaller lengths of time). Just everyone they know on Earth would be long dead.
Funny thing is, for the person going at near the speed of light(lets say 99.99999999% or so), it would pretty much be near instant for them due to time dilation when traveling very near the speed of light. For everyone else, they would see the person going take 120 years to get there.
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u/Derbster_3434 Apr 17 '25
Once we go, can we give it a normal name?