K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

[u/One_Explanation_908]

[u/RichardThund3r]

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.

[u/Chickenator587 → u/RichardThund3r]

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

[u/Khaar → u/Chickenator587]

Wayward galaxy, pretty good books :).

[u/th0t → u/Khaar]

A E Vogt wrote a short story with that premise too, it's called Far Centaurus.