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Every week we take science questions from our listener, singular intended, and anyone can call in with whatever science question they have.

The number is 1-888-505-6644.

Jesse will do his best to answer it.

This week, the question kind of involves space, but also another weird biology field that maybe isn't a real field of science.

So let's listen to it.

This comes from a listener named Mike.

Well, it's an interesting question, right?

If we want to go to the closest star, what is that?

Alpha proximitary center, whatever, alpha something?

Close enough.

If we took off at, let's say, the speeds we could fly now in space, it would take like a thousand years or something like that to get there?

A hundred thousand years.

A hundred thousand years?

See, that's what I said.

You just didn't hear the hundred.

But like you'd have to figure out intergenerational space travel, like families upon families upon families, or you'd have to put everyone to sleep.

And if you're putting everyone to sleep, cryogenics is freezing people.

Is that something that I can do tomorrow?