9 Science Facts That Will Ruin Your Day

There are options such as generation ships, or even embryo ships, but even then we have to take into consideration something called "wait calculation". This basically means that, due to the vast timescales involved, if humans sent off a ship of frozen embryos towards proxima centauri now, we'd probably invent something that could overtake it in the intervening years, wasting precious time and resources. Expert calculate that the very soonest we might be able to leave our solar system is 1,104 years, and there are some who think that it is improbable that we will ever leave the solar system.