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by munksbeer 408 days ago
When you put it this way it depresses me (). It just illustrates just how unimaginably big space is, considering something that might be considered part of our own star's solar system can be four freaking light days away. We'll never get out of our solar system will we?

() Not really, I'm using artistic hyperbole.

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The most distant Voyager probe is about 167 AU out, or one light day, and it’s been travelling for 48 years.

If we are going to get anywhere in space it’s looking like we’re going to need some kind of technological leap. Would be wild to see that happen this lifetime.