Originally Posted by Hentaikid

Getting to the nearest galaxy couldn't be done even with Star Trek's technology, never mind ours.

What we could do with current technology is put a Hubble telescope type satellite 150 times the radius of earth's orbit away, at the solar focus point, this would let us use the sun as a lens and we could see planets light years away in detail. It would only take 15 years for the thing to get there.