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To: bigdaddy45
And you think this is useless. An incurious mind is truly a very sad thing.

The "closest" star is 4 LYs away. THERE IS NO CHANCE OF HUMANS EVER EXPLORING SPACE. So enjoy the little colored dots....

16 posted on 07/12/2022 5:55:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
The "closest" star is 4 LYs away.

To put this distance in perspective, if you scaled the sun down to the size of a pea, Alpha Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor, would be 117 miles away.

Imagine two peas separated by 117 miles. These are the distances we are talking about.

21 posted on 07/12/2022 6:07:21 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: central_va

And the ”New World” was past the point where “there be dragons.”

Fortunately, there are people who still understand the need for exploration.


22 posted on 07/12/2022 6:07:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: central_va
The "closest" star is 4 LYs away. THERE IS NO CHANCE OF HUMANS EVER EXPLORING SPACE. So enjoy the little colored dots....

4-dimensional travel will make light-year distances trivial.

Folding space will be the key.

25 posted on 07/12/2022 6:11:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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