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Maybe immortality is a requirement for space travel? With the 78 years avg that we currently have we won't get far unless we bend spacetime. If everyone lives f
by jsemrau 4y ago
Maybe immortality is a requirement for space travel?
With the 78 years avg that we currently have we won't get far unless we bend spacetime.
If everyone lives forever, time becomes meaningless.
- macrolime 4y agoIf we could manage to build a spacecraft that could continuously accelerate at 1g. It would, from the perspective of the inhabitants on the ship, be possible to travel to the end of the edge of the visible universe and back in 100 years, even though billions of years would have passed on earth. Relativity is weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_acceleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_ac...
- TchoBeer 4y agonote that a spacecraft which can continuously accelerate at 1g would require an insane amount of energy. Relativity is indeed weird.