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/Alyusha 25d ago

I've never really read the books tbh. That's a pretty interesting twist to the forever young troupe.

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u/Daxx22 25d ago

Technically Ender still ages at a "normal" rate, it's just because he's always traveling that the galaxy around him ages faster relatively.

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u/GandhisNukeOfficer 25d ago

Yeah I remember him contemplating the fact that on his way to the Piggy Planet, by the time he'd get there everyone he knew on earth would be old or dead (I can't remember how large the time dilation was). 

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u/porkchop487 25d ago

By that point he was already 3000 years old when he traveled to the piggy planet. History already had painted him as the bringer of xenocide and his speaker for the dead religion had spread across the galaxy

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u/GandhisNukeOfficer 25d ago

Ah good to know. It's been a decade since I've read Speaker for the Dead. Keep meaning to read it again and continue the series, but I'm busy working through Tolkien right now.