So close, yet so far...as once Elvis said
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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Interstellar travel is possible after all
Now that's an explanation for Global Warming that I haven't heard before!
GOP gonna take this and run with it.
The 4th dimension shortcut
Who's down for a quick bike ride?
Maybe Bing has access to the Event Horizon's portal tech. It would explain a lot.
It knows the distance from Earth, but that’s not what the question was. It’s 13.6 km from somewhere.
Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.
From something like this?
If Earth were the size of a sand grain, this distance would be about the width of a hair in contrast to the corresponding 6-mile (10-km) distance to Alpha Centauri in the same scale.
How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It's really right in front of us!
They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out.
For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
Too close for comfort.
Bada Bing
Huh. The collision must've happened a lot sooner than we thought.
I wonder if Bing over- or under-estimates the wealth of Bill Gates.