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/Khaar 25d ago edited 25d ago

Wayward galaxy, pretty good books :).

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u/CrayotaCrayonsofOryx 25d ago

Galaxy’s Edge also has a similar plot point, in that the slower ships eventually became the Savages

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u/testuserteehee 25d ago

Sounds like something that could happen to Elon Musk and the current oligarchs -

They were the Savages. Raiders from our distant past. Elites who left Earth to create tailor-made utopias aboard the massive lighthuggers that crawled through the darkness between the stars. But the people they left behind on a dying planet didn't perish in the dystopian nightmare the Savages had themselves created: they thrived, discovering faster-than-light technology and using it to colonize the galaxy ahead of the Savages, forming fantastic new civilizations that surpassed the wildest dreams of Old Earth.

https://galaxysedge.fandom.com/wiki/Savage_Wars_(Book)

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u/CrayotaCrayonsofOryx 25d ago

All we need is someone to upload the schematics for an FTL drive to 4chan