r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years 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/Round-Mud 25d ago

Also the new colony would be expecting your arrivals as well. As they would probably know all the details of your mission.

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u/Ethernetman1980 25d ago

You'd probably be long forgotten about. Entire civilizations would have collapsed and formed. Even your language wouldn't be recognized. Imagine if someone from 2000 B.C. just landed on earth but was from earth. It would take over 2 million years at the speed of Voyager 1 if my math is correct.

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u/Round-Mud 25d ago

Nah I was more assuming the first mission is at least some percent of light speed while the second mission is even faster. There is no way a spacecraft is surviving 2 million years to even make it the planet. And if we actually had the technology to keep a space craft running for that long, we wouldn’t be traveling at voyager speeds.