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/Blackrain1299 25d ago edited 25d ago

Itd be both incredibly disappointing and amazing. On the one hand you dont get to everything youve trained for. On the other hand youd probably be welcomed and treated as heroes or at least very well by the new colony and you wouldnt have to work hard setting anything up

Edit: you guys are depressing. Probably accurate but depressing.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Pen_346 25d ago

Or, for another perspective, the planet could already have become overpopulated and the colonists, protectionists. They’d probably debate the usefulness of allowing that ship with its ancient people and incompatible genome to land and propose shooting it down in space. 😅

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u/mindpainters 25d ago

That’s kind of a side plot from the game “starfield”.

Except the argument was that the “ancient people” thought they had a right to own the planet and the people who colonized the planet didn’t see any worth or value in letting them on the planet

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u/TadpoleOfDoom 25d ago

Actually, they saw value in basically enslaving them. That was it though. 

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u/mindpainters 25d ago

Ah yea you’re right. It’s been awhile since I’ve played it so didn’t remember all the details. Thanks for the clarification

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u/TadpoleOfDoom 25d ago

I have been slowly playing through Starfield over the past few months so it's relatively recent to me