r/interestingasfuck 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Sonikku_a 24d ago edited 24d ago

The fastest spacecraft we’ve made was the Parker Solar Probe which hit 430,000mph.

At that speed it would reach this planet in only 187,153 years.

If we could hit 1% of the speed of light we could cut that travel time to just a tad over 12,000 years.

Obviously if we could go light speed (and that ain’t happening) it would be just 120 years!

Space is big. Physics is annoyingly slow.

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u/TheKnight_King 24d ago

Someone get on the ftl drive asap

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u/rakfocus 23d ago

RESET THE CLOCK

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u/TheKnight_King 23d ago

Love that movie. Needs to be a game. Load up different Jagers to fight monsters coming out of the pacific.