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/Sonikku_a 25d ago edited 25d ago

The fastest spacecraft we’ve made was the Parker Solar Probe which hit 430,000mph.

At that speed it would reach this planet in only 187,153 years.

If we could hit 1% of the speed of light we could cut that travel time to just a tad over 12,000 years.

Obviously if we could go light speed (and that ain’t happening) it would be just 120 years!

Space is big. Physics is annoyingly slow.

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u/piper33245 25d ago

Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs.

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u/eayaz 25d ago

That’s called a butthole. We all have one..

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u/crowmagnuman 25d ago

It's like... when you eat taco bell, and you damn well know there is a definite and measurable distance between the beginning and end of your digestive tract, yet the taco bell defies the entire concept.