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Voyager was meant to take pictures of objects in our celestial sphere, if instead we were in a race to, for instance, yeet our stuff faster than the soviets tow
by dontupvoteme 3y ago
Voyager was meant to take pictures of objects in our celestial sphere, if instead we were in a race to, for instance, yeet our stuff faster than the soviets towards Proxima Centauri, everything would have been different.
- lazide 3y agoCare to do the napkin math on what it would take energy wise for anything to make it from here to Proxima Centauri in 50 years or less? (Approx. rounded up time of the entire Cold War) Hint: even with instant construction, even nutty ideas like Project Orion would be incapable of doing it, let alone anything else. We’re talking > 10% the speed of light for the entire trip.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoI'm not even close to claiming you'd get there in under a few hundred years I'm just saying our space faring objects would be fundamentally a lot different
- lazide 3y agoThe 'space race' isn't going to happen if no one can 'win' within the politicians lifetimes, IMO.