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To put it in perspective, if the furthest distance man has travelled from the earth is the moon, and we represent that as 1 inch, then the closest star is about
by trestenhortz 6y ago
To put it in perspective, if the furthest distance man has travelled from the earth is the moon, and we represent that as 1 inch, then the closest star is about 200km / 125 miles away. In such a scale, Voyager has travelled 80 feet.
- King-Aaron 6y agoThe distances aren't lost on me by any stretch - However I don't feel that the argument about distance would be as relevant to a hypothetical "class 3" civilisation.
- trestenhortz 6y agoI’m talking current capabilities rather than possible future technological capabilities.
- King-Aaron 6y agoOh yeah, I get that. I guess my point is that people like to dismiss the idea of extra terrestrials being able to trave the vastness of space based on our own frame of technological reference, even though another race may not be bound to the same physical constraints that we are.