>>13713138What the fuck?
We can already leave the solar system with current technology, you know?
Conventional solar sails or plasma magnetic sails could both get you to 0.3c acceleration. That gets you to Alpha Centauri in roughly 12 to 15 years.
In fact, Breakthrough Starshot, which is a project that is actually ongoing, plans to send a fleet of micro-ships with cameras using this solar sail method, travelling at 0.2c and getting there in a little over 20 years.
Another method would be a nuclear pulse propulsion system, as in pic related. This spaceship concept, called Medusa, could also accelerate to 0.3c, though it would be controversial among normies and we would need to refine some aspects of materials science, it's also doable with current technology.
There's also the issue of time dilation. Time dilation is your friend. On the example of a 12 year trip to Alpha Centauri at 0.3c, time would tick at a slower pace for the astronauts travelling, so from their perspective only 4 years would pass.
So you have no idea what you are talking about. If we can leave the solar system with the primitive tech we have right now, we will certainly get better at it in the future provided we are still around and interested in funding these efforts.
