A Spacecraft That Goes 20 % the Speed Alight

It's pretty realistic for us in current technology, with the will and the money, to make a spacecraft that goes about 20 % the speed alight. That's de you know, traveling through relativistic, einsteinan space. If we're looking at a star system like alvasand tars, four light years away, if you can go 20% of the speed olight, you can get there in 20 years right? Ats none. T tonis light year. Takes you five years to go, and you got four light years. I mean, we send missions that, you know, that the first mars vers that i really followed regularly were spirit and opportunity.

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