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Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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Considering the relative speed of literally everything we can experience as humans, and that light ranks at the tippy top of every single one of them as INSTANT in pretty much any context other than math homework, it’s honestly pretty fucking wild that we not only got humans 1.3 light-seconds away from Earth, but got them back alive to tell about it.

That is straight up amazing.

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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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We ain’t hardly been nowhere in the 'verse yet.

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el_abuelo@programming.dev
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Yes and no. I get the point and do actually agree whole heartedly but I think it obscures the reality that we’ve been observing solar systems as they existed millions of years ago.

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