“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”.If you fall short, you fall short, but you say you gave it your best.” “You reach for the stars and you work your butt off to achieve your dreams.“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”.“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”.“You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.”.You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.” If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.” When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. “When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there.Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you.When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a ‘how’ if there is a big enough ‘why’.” “To ask, ‘How do you do it?’ is already starting off on the wrong foot.Reach up and rearrange them in the way you want. “Don’t wait for the stars to be aligned.“You will never reach the stars without courage to lose sight of the ground.”.“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.“Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.”.“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”.“When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”.You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.” ![]() “Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal.“It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.”.“Remember to reach for the stars, and they won’t be able to resist flying into your hands!”.“Dream big at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.”.I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” Breakthrough Starshot, an ongoing project for laser-propelled interstellar probes, is aiming at 20 years to Proxima Centauri. What is an ‘acceptable timeframe’ though? The team that designed the Daedalus spacecraft, a hypothetical fusion-propelled interstellar probe, argued that an acceptable trip duration would be about the working life of a scientist, roughly 50 years. When we talk about interstellar travel however, we commonly mean that we can reach another star within an acceptable timeframe. Voyager 1 is heading towards the star Gliese 445 and Voyager 2 towards Sirius. This timescale sounds hopeless but it does also mean that, in principle, we can already send spacecraft to other stars. In reality Voyager 1 flies at an astonishing velocity of 17 km/s at this velocity, a flight to Proxima Centauri would take about 75,000 years. At this scale, the farthest human-made object, the Voyager 1 probe, would be at a distance of about 141 metres from the Sun, increasing its distance by about 3.6 metres per year. Still, the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, would be more than 265 km away. The Sun would be the size of a grain of salt on this scale. ![]() ![]() Imagine for a moment that the distance between our Sun and the Earth is one metre. Here, Andreas Hein looks into the possibilities and challenges associated with getting to the stars and asks if humans will ever set foot on an exoplanet.įlying to another star is incredibly difficult, first and foremost due to the distances involved. Today, for the first time in history, we might be only decades away from sending a spacecraft to a star, reaching it within the 21st century. Almost anyone who has looked into the night sky has wondered if we could ever travel to the stars.
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