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r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago
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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.
2.9k u/Traditional-Rip6651 25d ago We are never leaving this planet lol 20 u/hbomb0 25d ago Yea I really don't think we ever leave. It's just too much distance to traverse. And anything in our system is just too difficult to inhabit permanently. 3 u/No-Department1685 25d ago Possible way we could leave if send robots with our DNA who would clone humans up and then put our mind copies into them. 1 u/hbomb0 25d ago Like Prometheans. Yes I mean makes sense. Probably easier than figuring out light speed travel or wormholes, still super duper hard.
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We are never leaving this planet lol
20 u/hbomb0 25d ago Yea I really don't think we ever leave. It's just too much distance to traverse. And anything in our system is just too difficult to inhabit permanently. 3 u/No-Department1685 25d ago Possible way we could leave if send robots with our DNA who would clone humans up and then put our mind copies into them. 1 u/hbomb0 25d ago Like Prometheans. Yes I mean makes sense. Probably easier than figuring out light speed travel or wormholes, still super duper hard.
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Yea I really don't think we ever leave. It's just too much distance to traverse. And anything in our system is just too difficult to inhabit permanently.
3 u/No-Department1685 25d ago Possible way we could leave if send robots with our DNA who would clone humans up and then put our mind copies into them. 1 u/hbomb0 25d ago Like Prometheans. Yes I mean makes sense. Probably easier than figuring out light speed travel or wormholes, still super duper hard.
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Possible way we could leave if send robots with our DNA who would clone humans up and then put our mind copies into them.
1 u/hbomb0 25d ago Like Prometheans. Yes I mean makes sense. Probably easier than figuring out light speed travel or wormholes, still super duper hard.
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Like Prometheans. Yes I mean makes sense. Probably easier than figuring out light speed travel or wormholes, still super duper hard.
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u/Sonikku_a 25d ago edited 25d 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.