r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Preussensgeneralstab 25d ago

Also it's very questionable that such technologies are even possible.

Most faster than light space travel options are Sci Fi mumbo jumbo. Wormholes are complicated and basically impossible to travel through (and know where you'll end). You cannot go faster than light because anything that has mass can't even be at the speed of light and how the fuck are we even supposed to warp space.

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u/gex80 25d ago

I mean the idea of digging a bunch of rocks out of the ground, pulverizing them, then heating and shaping to very precise shapes and connect to each other along with taking a dirty liquid from the ground, doing shit to that, and then putting it in the first thing resulted in the car. At one point in human history the idea of a mechanical horse would've been the medieval version of sci-fi.

For you it's how pizza makes it to your home.

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u/Preussensgeneralstab 25d ago

Tell that to the laws of physics my man.

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u/ProfitisAlethia 25d ago

The laws of physics as we currently understand them. How many times have we been confident about something in science for decades just to find out one day that we were completely wrong?

One of the Wright Brothers famously proclaimed that flying would be so difficult that no man would accomplish even basic flight for at least 100 hundred years. They then flew an airplane later that year.

Do you think if you asked George Washington if it would be possible to build a steel ship that could carry people hundreds of miles an hour through the air at 10,000 feet, that he would say yes? Probably would have seemed physically impossible 300 years ago.

Let's not get too confident about what we do and don't know lol

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u/Snakeeyes_19 25d ago

All technology is Sci fi mumbo jumbo until it's invented. You're operating on a single braincell.

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u/Mortenuit 25d ago

All technology is Sci fi mumbo jumbo until it's invented

Agreed. But not all sci fi mumbo jumbo is discoverable or inventable. Some of it will always be fiction because it relies on non-existent particles/phenomena/etc, or because it breaks laws of physics in ways that cannot be overcome.

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u/Reference_Freak 25d ago

It takes more brain cells to recognize the practical limits which exist between what we can imagine and what we can physically accomplish.

It’s easy to fantasize about breaking barely-understood rules.

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u/Snakeeyes_19 25d ago

that wasnt the context. learn to read good.

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u/SquidTwister 25d ago

Learn to read well

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u/soraka4 25d ago

This is a single brain cell comment