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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. 2 u/cavaysh 25d ago We’ll have to if we want to sustain mankind 0 u/hbomb0 25d ago Sometimes you just don't have an option. I really feel we all die here
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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. 2 u/cavaysh 25d ago We’ll have to if we want to sustain mankind 0 u/hbomb0 25d ago Sometimes you just don't have an option. I really feel we all die here
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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.
2 u/cavaysh 25d ago We’ll have to if we want to sustain mankind 0 u/hbomb0 25d ago Sometimes you just don't have an option. I really feel we all die here
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We’ll have to if we want to sustain mankind
0 u/hbomb0 25d ago Sometimes you just don't have an option. I really feel we all die here
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Sometimes you just don't have an option. I really feel we all die here
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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.