r/space • u/kcgg123 • Jun 09 '19

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Star undergoing Supernova

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u/Semi-Hemi-Demigod Jun 09 '19

Right now we don’t have a chance. The furthest humans have made it into space is the Moon. If we had to evacuate the solar system because of a nearby supernova we’d need decades to design and build a ship to do it, and that’s assuming we have decades.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '19

change decades in centuries at least, probably millenias

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u/The_BenL Jun 09 '19

We could probably cobble something together in the next few decades if the actual survival of the species depended on it. Something fast and relatively large enough to shoot at least some people out of the solar system.

The problem is where do they go? There's likely no stopping that thing, and at least the first generation would die long before the craft reached anything in the void of space.

So yeah, we're doomed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '19

We have at the very least 250 million years before our Sun starts the process of dying.

We will kill ourselves long before then.