This is fascinating, this rock that hurtals threw the black void of space for billions of years, and here it is. Photographed. If we can get here, we can go anywhere.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Voyager could reach Proxima Centauri in about 75000 years at the current speed (if it was aimed at it).

The biology, sociology and physics of interstellar travel are brutal and unforgiving.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

If we can get here, we can go anywhere

in a few thousand years at light speed.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Not quite anywhere. The rocket equation is a bitch that way. Nor does the hardware live forever, or even us.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 minute ago

Space isnt quite empty either. There maybe extremely few particles in space, but its more than zero. Spacecraft will slow down and stop eventually. It just takes a long time.