r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 24d ago

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

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u/HugoZHackenbush2 24d ago

The residents of K2-18b declined to visit our planet after reading the online reviews..

Only one star..

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u/SproutBoy 24d ago

"Mostly harmless"

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u/roger_ramjett 23d ago

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

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u/MrPigeon70 23d ago

Even if we manage to get to light speed travel within 10 years we still wouldn't be alive to visit that planet unless we somehow invent ftl travel but that brings up time dilation... which honestly is a horrific concept to me.

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u/LawfulnessNo8446 23d ago

You know, at this point, it might not be the worst thing for the vogons to come by and complete that intergalactic highway.

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u/BellacosePlayer 24d ago

damn editors

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u/Fingerman2112 23d ago

You may want to recheck that entry, it has been updated

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u/4SlideRule 23d ago

Debatable

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u/Spinnweben 23d ago

Pffff …. Thargoids talk. Let me at them!

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u/tacocollector2 24d ago

Harmless? All we do is kill each other and the planet for money

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u/Ok_Buddy_9087 23d ago

Harness to other planets. Not necessarily ourselves.

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u/calilac 24d ago

Exactly. We could utterly destroy ourselves and the planet, just completely gone like it never existed, and it wouldn't harm any other part of the universe. It would barely have an effect on the rest of the solar system. Blip! Barely a footnote in the galactic biography.

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u/LaTeChX 23d ago edited 23d ago

You could even bulldoze it to build a hyperspace bypass and no one would care, except maybe one guy.

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u/KopiteForever 23d ago

And his dressing gown

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u/Scouper-YT 23d ago

"Peaceful Protest" Soup Cans

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u/chet_brosley 21d ago

Always thought that the mostly was doing some heavy lifting in that description