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The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it.

The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive.

The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossible the more we learn.

It's looking like we may well be stuck in our own solar system with no escape!

Star trek was great but it's looking more and more like a daydream.



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jackb wrote:

The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it.

The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive.

The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossible the more we learn.

It's looking like we may well be stuck in our own solar system with no escape!

Star trek was great but it's looking more and more like a daydream.


 Think interdimensional rather than interstellar



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Digger wrote:
jackb wrote:

The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it.

The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive.

The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossible the more we learn.

It's looking like we may well be stuck in our own solar system with no escape!

Star trek was great but it's looking more and more like a daydream.


 Think interdimensional rather than interstellar


 Trouble with that it has never gone beyond wishful thinking.

We know of no other dimensions or ways we may be able to travel in one.

In another dimension matter might not exist... there goes your ship and even your body!



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jackb wrote:
Digger wrote:
jackb wrote:

The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it.

The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive.

The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossible the more we learn.

It's looking like we may well be stuck in our own solar system with no escape!

Star trek was great but it's looking more and more like a daydream.


 Think interdimensional rather than interstellar


 Trouble with that it has never gone beyond wishful thinking.

We know of no other dimensions or ways we may be able to travel in one.

In another dimension matter might not exist... there goes your ship and even your body!


 Oh, I dunno.   Never say never and always keep an open mind.   



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The speed of the fastest ever manned spacecraft (Apollo 10) was 40,000 km/h …24,800 mph).

(That’s fast - but it’s roughly 27,000 times slower than the speed of light.)

Since the nearest star (Proxima Centauri), is 4.24 light-years away - it would take our fastest ever spacecraft over a hundred thousand years to get there.
I think the crew might be dead by then.

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jackb wrote:

The speed of the fastest ever manned spacecraft (Apollo 10) was 40,000 km/h …24,800 mph).

(That’s fast - but it’s roughly 27,000 times slower than the speed of light.)

Since the nearest star (Proxima Centauri), is 4.24 light-years away - it would take our fastest ever spacecraft over a hundred thousand years to get there.
I think the crew might be dead by then.


 I think that's a dot on the card wink



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jackb wrote:

The speed of the fastest ever manned spacecraft (Apollo 10) was 40,000 km/h …24,800 mph).

(That’s fast - but it’s roughly 27,000 times slower than the speed of light.)

Since the nearest star (Proxima Centauri), is 4.24 light-years away - it would take our fastest ever spacecraft over a hundred thousand years to get there.
I think the crew might be dead by then.


 Which is why any 'aliens' coming here wouldn't travel via that method.  It doesn't make sense.  I do believe in dimensions.  Just because we can't see them, or access them yet, doesn't mean they don't exist. 



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Digger wrote:
 I do believe in dimensions.  

 I guess we all need something to believe in.



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Anonymous wrote:
Digger wrote:
 I do believe in dimensions.  

 I guess we all need something to believe in.


 Spoken like a true Flat Earther.



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jackb wrote:

The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it.

The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive.

The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossible the more we learn.

It's looking like we may well be stuck in our own solar system with no escape!

Star trek was great but it's looking more and more like a daydream.


 And then you have to ask - even if we found a way, what would be the point?



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jackb wrote:
Digger wrote:
jackb wrote:

The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it.

The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive.

The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossible the more we learn.

It's looking like we may well be stuck in our own solar system with no escape!

Star trek was great but it's looking more and more like a daydream.


 Think interdimensional rather than interstellar


 Trouble with that it has never gone beyond wishful thinking.

We know of no other dimensions or ways we may be able to travel in one.

In another dimension matter might not exist... there goes your ship and even your body!


 I think it's Voyager one. in the 47 years that it's been travelling through space. It has roughly only traveled one light day. The nearest star to our star is 4.2 light years distance away. The  Andromeda galaxy the closet galaxy to us would take with our fastest technology to date 88,000 years to reach.

I saw the other day that the Webb telescope captured a quasar throwing out two beams of light?energy which are 146 milkyway galaxies long. We have no real concept of the size of the universe. and some think we are one among billions of universes.



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