Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies
by hntrader on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:06AM
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It's highly relevant from a perspective of philosophical and scientific curiosity, and mostly (seemingly) irrelevant from a perspective of practical impact on our lives.
I'm also cautious to jump to such conclusions given how nascent we are technologically, even though the light speed barrier does seem absolute. Our recent ancestors probably would've thought a similar thing about life orbiting a nearby star, and it's only with the hindsight of recent advances that we're able to conclude that that's not as far out of our reach as once believed. Who knows what one million years of additional technological advances will make us capable of?
I'm also cautious to jump to such conclusions given how nascent we are technologically, even though the light speed barrier does seem absolute. Our recent ancestors probably would've thought a similar thing about life orbiting a nearby star, and it's only with the hindsight of recent advances that we're able to conclude that that's not as far out of our reach as once believed. Who knows what one million years of additional technological advances will make us capable of?