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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by bickeringyokel on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @12:56PM (#23919005)
Imagine that, knowing there's intelligent life out there, but knowing we will never meaningfully interact with them because it's impossible to travel any useful distance or communicate in any real way. Even if we could travel vast distances, It seems likely if we discover any life out there it may be long dead by the time we get there.
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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by catwind7 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:19PM (#23919302)
that's really sad :(. 300 light years ... gonna take a while. maybe the filter is space travel - no civilization is able to amass enough energy to go those distances
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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by macintux on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:06PM (#23921013)
We have an enormous, almost inexhaustible source of energy just 1 AU away.
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