Why Even the Closest Star May Be Too Far for Humans
Close your eyes and let the impossible distance to our nearest star settle into your mind. A story of why even Proxima Centauri, just 4.2 light-years away, is a boundary we may never cross. Our fastest spacecraft would take over 6,600 years to reach it, and any human crew would age and die on the journey, making it a one-way trip for their descendants. The sheer scale of the distance—over 25 trillion miles—turns interstellar travel into a multigenerational prison, where the explorers would be born, live, and die without ever seeing their destination. Let the quiet, sobering enormity of this…
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