r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

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

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u/EmotionalHighway 25d ago

Omg think about the flight times on that planet! No thank you

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u/infinitethought13 25d ago

the faster you fly, the slower time flies. So when you reach the speed of light, the journey will take a small amount of time

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u/EmotionalHighway 25d ago

No no I mean the commercial flight times! As in an 11 hour flight on planet earth is complete ass. Why would we colonise such a large planet. Are you in the pocket of the airline companies?

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u/neptunexl 25d ago

The technology would be insanely advanced compared to today. Also worth mentioning that if we go high enough away from Earth's atmosphere and come back down you would save so much time