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"the solar neighborhood within 33 light-years" How tragic, that even if humanity were to receive signal from another intelligent species, we couldn't even clos
by kctess5 11y ago
"the solar neighborhood within 33 light-years"
How tragic, that even if humanity were to receive signal from another intelligent species, we couldn't even close to possibly reach them with current technology. Intelligent species watch each other rise and fall from afar.
- sktrdie 11y agoActually with time dilation the people on the spacecraft could reach several close stars in decades - if we construct fast enough spacecrafts (just needs to be a small fraction of light of speed).
- pavel_lishin 11y agoIt would be a pretty great endeavour. We'd have to carry enough fuel to accelerate and decelerate at the end, and enough fuel to push that fuel, etc., etc. (Unless Bussard drives work.) I wonder if anyone's written that story - a relativistic vehicle is headed towards the Earth, launched by a civilization that could get it up to speed but not decelerate, trusting and hoping that our technology is advanced to slow them down on arrival...