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Originally Posted by COchief
Back to 1950 "No way will we ever have PCs, Iphones, GPS, or the internet"
Today, different story. Are you really unable to apply this concept to your views on technological advances and what the "truths" are today and how those will change in the next 20+ years?
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Here's a concept: We went from point A to point B. Thus, we can go from point B to point C. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it!!
No.
The nearest solar system is how far away? About 4.2 light years. You know how far that is? About 24 trillion miles. You know how far that is, yet? It's too far. The New Horizons will go about 28,000 miles per hour. You know how long it would take to get to the nearest star at that rate? About 100,000 years.
And that's hoping the nearest solar system has developed, intelligent life like humans or apes.
What if not the 1st, but the 8th does?
That's about 10 light years away. That's about 60 trillion miles away. 60 trillion miles away, going 28,000 miles per hour is what? That's right. It would take 244,000 years to get there.
I know what you're thinking. WE CAN MAKE FASTER SPACECRAFT!
Sure. But how fast? A spacecraft that can go 500,000 miles per hour? Haha, but let's play fun and games so you're an asshole.
How long would that take to get to the nearest star?
Only 5000 years.