How fast can human aircraft be in the next 3 years? It is expected to achieve 1.6 million kilometers per hour.

human beings have a history of civilization of 5, years, which is a negligible short time for millions of years of human evolution. Although the history of human civilization is very short, it has achieved great success, especially after entering the era of science and technology hundreds of years ago, which makes us feel incredible.

Many people like to look at the development speed of human civilization from the perspective of various scientific and technological progress. If we use a simpler standard to measure human development, you will find that the history of human civilization development is actually the history of speed development. That is to say, the speed of transportation is constantly improving, which affects human cognition of the world and the universe.

Although human civilization has a history of about 5, years, there has been no substantial breakthrough in speed for about 4,7 years in the whole history of civilization. For example, in ancient times, people basically went out by walking, visiting relatives and friends, no matter how far apart, ordinary people could only go on foot. Rich people can buy a carriage instead of walking.

both walking and carriage are very slow. if you want to travel thousands of kilometers away, I'm afraid it will take at least half a year to walk, but the carriage will take at least one month. Therefore, ordinary people in ancient times basically lived in Fiona Fang for dozens of kilometers all their lives, and were rarely able to go far, unless there was a famine and other reasons why they had to leave.

The ancient people's way of going out lasted about 4,7 years. It was not until the beginning of the industrial revolution and after mankind officially entered the era of science and technology that advanced means of transportation appeared continuously. In the era of science and technology, the means of transportation have also experienced rapid upgrading, and the speed is constantly improving. Now we have a fast plane, which can travel around the world in a short time. The distance that used to be endless in people's eyes is now very small.

Today's earth has changed from the vastness to the global village. No matter how far apart two people are, as long as they don't leave the earth, we can meet in a very short time. This is the rapid increase in speed brought by science and technology, but this proud speed of the earth has become a turtle speed in the universe. Earth times's very fast supersonic speed is not even turtle speed in the universe.

The universe is too big for us to imagine, and to realize the dream of exploring the universe, we must further improve the speed. However, it is not easy to improve the speed, which requires the rapid development of power and energy. However, the current energy of human beings is mainly fossil energy, and the potential of this energy has been exhausted by human beings. Under this energy, it is difficult to make a huge breakthrough in the speed of aircraft.

the distance of the earth is getting shorter and shorter by the advantage of speed, so can humans rely on the advantage of speed to make the distance of the universe shorter and shorter again? The answer is yes. As long as our energy technology can make another major breakthrough in the future, the speed of the aircraft will also be improved qualitatively.

so how fast can human aircraft achieve in the next 3 years? At present, the fastest speed of the spacecraft launched by human beings in space is the New Horizon spacecraft. After several planetary accelerations in space, it reaches 585.36 million kilometers per hour. This speed is particularly fast in our view, but standing in front of the universe with light years as the basic distance unit, it is too slow to say anything. At present, it takes about half a year for human aircraft to set off from Earth to Mars, 1 years to reach Pluto and 5, years to fly out of the solar system.

through continuous research and exploration, scientists have set a goal for the direction of speed increase in the next 3 years, that is, to increase the speed of aircraft to 1.6 million kilometers per hour within 3 years. This is a lithium ion thruster driven by laser beam that NASA is studying. This is a new type of aircraft that is expected to be realized in the next 3 years. It takes only a few days to go to Mars at this speed and only a few months to reach Pluto.

if human beings can achieve an aircraft speed of 1.6 million kilometers per hour in the next 3 years, the era of universal space mining will come. At the same time, we can also establish living bases on the moon and Mars, and immigrate some human beings to the moon and Mars. This is the initial realization of alien migration, which shows how important speed is to the development of human space.

Scientists have always wanted to build a base on the moon. Although it can barely be done with the current space technology, the cost will be very, very high due to the lack of a powerful spaceship and its speed is not fast enough. No country can afford to build a lunar base. But if we have a speed of 1.6 million kilometers per hour, it will be much easier to build a lunar base, and it will only take a few hours for the spacecraft to go back and forth to the moon.

Of course, facing the vast universe at 1.6 million kilometers per hour, it is still slower than the speed of a turtle. At this speed, we still can't get out of the solar system and explore the stars outside the system. To realize the initial galaxy navigation, the slowest speed must reach the sub-light speed, and to raise the speed of the spacecraft to the sub-light speed, it needs a more powerful energy as the power, which is the controlled nuclear fusion that scientists have been studying and exploring.

Some people may say, can't mankind realize controlled nuclear fusion in the next 3 years? If it is realized, the speed of the aircraft will not only be 1.6 million kilometers per hour, but will be much higher. Indeed, if the controlled nuclear fusion is realized in the next 3 years, there will be no speed of 1.6 million kilometers per hour.

the speed increase brought by nuclear fusion power is very huge, which is the power of interstellar travel, far from being compared with the lithium ion propeller driven by laser beam. But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is very cruel. Humans began to study and explore controlled nuclear fusion technology 5 years ago, but now 5 years later, although some breakthroughs have been made in nuclear fusion technology, it is still far from being truly controllable.

if controlled nuclear fusion technology is to be truly realized, it needs a major breakthrough in high-temperature resistant materials. You know, the ignition temperature needed in controlled nuclear fusion is as high as hundreds of millions of degrees. Although the research direction of scientists is magnetic confinement, it still needs stronger high temperature resistant materials. If the material can't get a major breakthrough, then controlled nuclear fusion will be in the foreseeable future.

the breakthrough of materials is often the most difficult, and there has been no breakthrough in recent decades. However, scientists dare not boast that human beings can realize controlled nuclear fusion technology within 5 years. This shows that in scientists' cognition, the realization of controlled nuclear fusion is far more difficult than our imagination, and it may not be possible to give mankind another hundred years.

Of course, the development speed of human science and technology is very fast. As long as we are given enough time, controlled nuclear fusion will be realized, sub-light speed flight will be realized, and light speed flight can also be realized. Even the superluminal flight, wormhole shuttle, etc., which are completely beyond our cognition now, may be realized in the endless future. At that time, human civilization may have become a truly powerful interstellar civilization, crisscrossing the Milky Way and the whole universe. We are looking forward to this day.