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Light sails are not very fast. The probe would have had to have been launched thousands of years ago at least, maybe millions. Either way, long before our curre
by kentonv 6y ago
Light sails are not very fast. The probe would have had to have been launched thousands of years ago at least, maybe millions. Either way, long before our current level of advancement could have been predicted.
- motohagiography 6y agoI'd argue development isn't linear, as we seem to have millennia with pretty static tech, then in the span of a (increasingly long) lifetime, electricity, flight, and the internet. On that scale, our last 150 years could have occurred randomly at any time.
- ekianjo 6y ago> as we seem to have millennia with pretty static tech, That's not even remotely true. Even between antiquity and middle ages there were constant technological improvements. Of course everything sped up once we had access to steam and later fossil fuels as machinery to replace manual work became a reality.