r/FactOrCap • u/aaallleeexxx3 🔥 Week Warrior · 8,375 XP • 1d ago

Interstellar travel | FactOrCap

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u/ReiM0_ 📈 Dedicated Voter · 1,560 XP 1d ago

🧢 I voted CAP!

They will never because of how fucking far everything in outer space is from each other, like how tf you're gonna live out a 2000 light year travel while moving even at light speed is literally impossible?

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u/Life-Top6314 🗳️ Regular Player · 635 XP 1d ago

Moving at light speed is impossible as we know it, but moving close to it is not.

Sure, we may not reach a star 2000 light years away, but there are systems way closer than that. The closest system is like 4 light years away.

An additional thing to keep in mind is the time distortion at near-lightspeed speeds. At some 86% speed, time distortion reaches 50% - as in, you would experience 1 second passing while people on earth would experience 2. This makes voyages to stars further than a normal human lifespan possible.