negativenull@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoWhere no man has gone beforemedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up1688arrow-down125
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minus-squareMeatPilot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 days agoThe vastness of space is amazing. Even at light speed it would take about 2.5 million years from Earth to the edge of our closest neighbor Andromeda. Guess at some point it’ll be less once the Milky Way collides with Andromeda.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoWhat if we pass within close range of habitable andromedan planets and make some new space friends in this lonely universe? Think we’ll be enlightened/altruistic enough by then to do it without colonizing, exploiting, and oppressing its inhabitants?
The vastness of space is amazing. Even at light speed it would take about 2.5 million years from Earth to the edge of our closest neighbor Andromeda.
Guess at some point it’ll be less once the Milky Way collides with Andromeda.
Can’t wait
What if we pass within close range of habitable andromedan planets and make some new space friends in this lonely universe?
Think we’ll be enlightened/altruistic enough by then to do it without colonizing, exploiting, and oppressing its inhabitants?