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Anonymous A started this discussion 2 hours ago#133,883
Another hundred years? A thousand? A million? Long enough to colonize the stars? I don’t want to discount future advances. If you talked to someone in 1870 about the world of 1916 or 1970 you’d have come off as a loon.
Anonymous D double-posted this 59 minutes ago, 46 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,426,521
Although on colonizing the stars, google how fast the fastest man made object traveled, google the speed of light, google how far away the nearest star is, do the math on it, it’s not looking good lol
Anonymous D triple-posted this 57 minutes ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,426,522
The travel time is on the order of magnitude of several hundred thousand years to the nearest star and there are half a trillion stars in our galaxy. It literally takes the sun 250 million years to orbit the galaxy it’s so big and we’re traveling at 500,000 miles per hour. (Fun fact this means the dinosaurs lived on the opposite side of the galaxy).
Anonymous D quadruple-posted this 54 minutes ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,426,523
Unrelated but the also have time lapses of stars at the center orbiting Sagittarius A* you can actually see the space warping from the extreme gravity.
Anonymous D quintuple-posted this 45 minutes ago, 9 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,426,524
The other problem is even if we could go near the speed of light, if you collide with a grain of dust, the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s and the ISS is only moving at 7,660 m/s, but 7,660 m/s is already fast enough that flecks of paint can vaporize metal. So if you were going say 50% the speed of light, hitting a grain of sand might be like a nuclear bomb or something.