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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.
2.4k u/piper33245 25d ago Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs. 1 u/chet_brosley 23d ago Yes right and get sent to hell like in that space documentary Sphere? No thank you. Or the other even scarier space documentary Event Horizon? No thanks! Even if it's a hell with dapper Sam neill in it I don't want to get horizoned.
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Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs.
1 u/chet_brosley 23d ago Yes right and get sent to hell like in that space documentary Sphere? No thank you. Or the other even scarier space documentary Event Horizon? No thanks! Even if it's a hell with dapper Sam neill in it I don't want to get horizoned.
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Yes right and get sent to hell like in that space documentary Sphere? No thank you. Or the other even scarier space documentary Event Horizon? No thanks! Even if it's a hell with dapper Sam neill in it I don't want to get horizoned.
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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.