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You're missing the point entirely: framing the swarm as "covering interstellar distances" is misleading and betrays a certain naivete in thinking about space tr
by uoaei 2y ago
You're missing the point entirely: framing the swarm as "covering interstellar distances" is misleading and betrays a certain naivete in thinking about space travel that compromises the reporting on this plan.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago> You're missing the point entirely I think not. > "covering interstellar distances" is misleading It can be read in 2 ways yes (is the interstellar distance crossed by the swarm who do that together, or does the radius of the swarm encompass interstellar distance) but it's clear which one is intended. Again, "The swarm ends up around 100,000km wide" tells you which one it is. Non-naïve people know or look up that 100,000km is not even an interplanetary distance, let alone an interstellar one. It's relatively tightly bunched when crossing the 40,208,000,000,000 km to Proxima Centauri. Yes I look this kind of thing up. > a certain naivete in thinking about space travel that compromises Don't be absurd.
- uoaei 2y agoIs this the same argument you proffer every time clickbait language is used?
- mlyle 2y agoBees swarm over distances of miles. But the swarm doesn't stretch out miles. They form a dense group that moves somewhere miles away.