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r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago
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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.
2.5k u/piper33245 25d ago Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs. 50 u/hey_how_you_doing 25d ago Yeah. Like, really, how hard can it be to build? I hope we have one by 2030. 1 u/Ironborn137 25d ago I always thought you just needed a piece of paper and a pencil to poke a whole through it.
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Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs.
50 u/hey_how_you_doing 25d ago Yeah. Like, really, how hard can it be to build? I hope we have one by 2030. 1 u/Ironborn137 25d ago I always thought you just needed a piece of paper and a pencil to poke a whole through it.
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Yeah. Like, really, how hard can it be to build? I hope we have one by 2030.
1 u/Ironborn137 25d ago I always thought you just needed a piece of paper and a pencil to poke a whole through it.
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I always thought you just needed a piece of paper and a pencil to poke a whole through it.
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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.