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>it just puts into perspective how daunting the task of covering several light-years with a spacecraft really is... And then you have multipliers like million/
by abhishekjha 4y ago
>it just puts into perspective how daunting the task of covering several light-years with a spacecraft really is...
And then you have multipliers like million/billion. I kinda just lose perspective over there.
- MauranKilom 4y ago"'The light from those millions of stars you see is probably many thousands of years old' is a rare example of laypeople substantially OVERestimating astronomical numbers." https://xkcd.com/1342/ https://xkcd.com/1342/ There is plenty of interesting stuff within ten light years, so don't lose perspective too much ;)
- ceejayoz 4y agoDepends how you look at it, I suppose. There are about 5k visible stars, most indeed pretty close... but if you manage to make out Andromeda, I suppose you're technically seeing about a trillion, and they're all pretty far off...