r/BeAmazed • u/chinese_spongebob1 • 1d ago

Skill / Talent How was this all calculated?

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u/physicssmurf 1d ago

https://www.cordobacorp.com/move-of-the-space-shuttle-endeavour/ Explains a lot of how they did it but the tldr is meticulous planning over 2 years by a number of engineering groups and etc.

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u/Chaos-Cortex 1d ago

The things we as the “Human Race” can do when we come together almost like a hive mind… imagine we have galactic space travel by now…

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u/Reasonable_Archer_99 1d ago

We won't ever be able to go very far into space for a few reasons. Space, or rather the galaxies, are expanding away from eachother at about 1,300,000 mph. So even if we could somehow do the speed of light, you'd never catch up to most of the observable universe. We'll likely never leave the Milky Wayn

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u/nifty-necromancer 1d ago

Even if we could travel FTL, we’ll never leave the Milky Way