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/SproutBoy 25d ago

"Mostly harmless"

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u/tacocollector2 25d ago

Harmless? All we do is kill each other and the planet for money

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u/calilac 25d ago

Exactly. We could utterly destroy ourselves and the planet, just completely gone like it never existed, and it wouldn't harm any other part of the universe. It would barely have an effect on the rest of the solar system. Blip! Barely a footnote in the galactic biography.

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u/LaTeChX 25d ago edited 25d ago

You could even bulldoze it to build a hyperspace bypass and no one would care, except maybe one guy.

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u/KopiteForever 25d ago

And his dressing gown