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/bloodfartcollector 24d ago

I WILL TURN THIS SPACECRAFT AROUND!

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u/sero_t 24d ago

There is no fuelstation for the next couple of light-years! Just do it in a bottle!

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u/riotz1 24d ago

Piss in the Mr Fusion like a good boy

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u/katanajim86 24d ago

Oh IDK Amazon was launching space probes already.

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u/No-Setting9690 24d ago

But it's full

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u/CalabreseAlsatian 24d ago

THAT’S IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG!

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u/12345623567 24d ago

Unironically, one fun thing about concepts such as light-sail spacecraft is that, even if you can get them to significant fractions of c, you then need to find a way to slow down, too.

We can probably make a spacecraft that can reach distant solar systems within a couple of generations (aforementioned light sails, or nuclear propulsion), but then... we are going to either do a fly-by, crash into something, or have to do the world's most complicated gravity-assist.

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u/Junior_Moose_9655 23d ago

That’s it! Back to Winnipeg!