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How Long Would It Take to Reach the Kuiper Belt?

22K views · Aug 15, 2026 · Science & Technology

Comments · 25

  • @Catveraa · 1 month ago

    Nine years of travel for less than a day near Pluto really shows how brutal these distances are.

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  • @spencerderosier6649 · 1 month ago

    I'm just glad that I'm not the one who's so far away

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  • @Chris-rk7zv · 1 month ago

    The Kuiper is so far away

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  • @TravisBrady-wn8fr · 1 month ago

    I walked there. Very peaceful.

  • @DarkScienceDocumentaries · 1 month ago

    The Kuiper Belt may be the solar system’s memory. Beyond Neptune, cold and isolation preserved some of the original material almost exactly as it assembled 4.5 billion years ago. The cruel elegance is that the same distance that protected this archive now prevents its descendants from reading it. We sent a machine across the darkness for decades, opened two pages for a few hours, and then watched them vanish behind it because the machine could not stop. The outer solar system is a library built by physics, with nearly every book still closed. 💯👍

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  • @ForPopli · 1 month ago

    Voyager is already there. Just ask it.

  • @Scott-kd5ql · 1 month ago (edited)

    Forever bc there is no Keiper belt.

  • @regntonne · 1 month ago

    fAnCy A gAmE oF aStErOiD dOdGiNg?

  • @dscott130 · 1 month ago

    OMG, the Kuiper Belt again! Please come up with new stuff. Things that have facts that are somewhat relatable. No more stuff about distance.

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  • @joe-edward · 1 month ago

    I like these videos, but I wish you would at least keep the AI gen videos on topic, instead of just random. I mean, you're already just prompting a machine to generate the video... couldn't you just generate that same prompt using the narration as a guide?

  • @edgartokman4898 · 1 month ago

    Our Moon will not be Earth-like. The gravity is far too low.<br><br>Mars could be terraformed but only in theory. You can dump all of the water you like there, but it will just vaporize and be lost to space in a relatively short time. You must have an atmosphere to keep it. The amount of gas required to make a reasonable atmosphere is beyond mind-boggling.<br> The water might sublimate rather than vaporize. Having lots of ice on Mars will not aid in terraforming except by the indirect value of having something from which to make oxygen.<br><br>Finally, the effort to bring the outer asteroid belt objects to Mars is beyond comprehension. This might be a 500-year plan sort of thing. &nbsp;these are harebrained ideas. They are impossible to swallow.<br><br>The Kuiper belt is outside of the orbit of Neptune!! Crazy!!<br><br>Moving billions or trillions of tons of gas from Venus to Mars? How the heck would you even begin to do that? The entire energy production of all nations pales to insignificance in comparison.<br><br>Please get a grip and check out the distances and capabilities of rational spacecraft. Not even close to your surmises!

  • @MushroomTheNomad · 1 month ago

    Oh my God you made an hour and a half video and you explained it in the first 2 minutes and then you blabber for another hour and 45 minutes

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