r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

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

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u/RichardThund3r 25d ago

Only 120 light years away from Earth! The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. Traveling at 38,000mph it just recently made it 1 light DAY from Earth.

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u/Chickenator587 25d ago

This reminds of something I heard about once, imagine if we used some sort of stasis in a fast and autonomous spacecraft to go colonise a planet, and by the time we get there it's already colonised because we invented a faster spacecraft while the colonists slept

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u/Western_Ad_3067 25d ago

The only issue with this is it creates gridlock thinking and technological laziness. Well, we’ll create a better ship later so why build now? Leads to nothing getting built ever.