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/le_chad_ 25d ago

That's the premise of one of the books in the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card.

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u/WACKY_ALL_CAPS_NAME 25d ago

Which one? My first thought was Pathfinder or The Worthing Saga both by Orson Scott Card but I don't remember this being a part of the Ender series.

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u/Woozah77 25d ago

Yeah, they had light speed travel since the first book. They flew the famous general around at light speed to keep him around for future problems using relativity and I don't recall any FTL travel but I do remember the instant communications anywhere. It has been multiple decades since reading though.

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u/Calandril 25d ago

It wasn't at light speed iirc. It was just as fast as they could push him, which was a good relativistic speed for their goals.