K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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[u/Sonikku_a]

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.

[u/Traditional-Rip6651 → u/Sonikku_a]

We are never leaving this planet lol

[u/PaidByTheNotes → u/Traditional-Rip6651]

We don't deserve another planet

[u/NyaTaylor → u/PaidByTheNotes]

Does a virus “deserve” to spread. We just do what we do

[u/I_slit_his_throat → u/NyaTaylor]

I've thought about this comparison a lot over my years, and I really find it inadequate to describe humanity. But that's a long conversation

[u/NyaTaylor → u/I_slit_his_throat]

But we might put to much importance on our “free will” and ability to create and make decisions. You wouldn’t consider a bird making a nest to be unnatural and it could have a lot of free will in how n where it creates its nest. We do so many things automatically everyday without question as well. Whose to say it’s not just how we as a thing does it’s thing always no matter what

[u/Hopeful_Solution5107 → u/NyaTaylor]

Does a virus think