"We're left, like the starving donkey equidistant between two bails of hay, unable to decide on what to celebrate" <-- the closest of these things is 20 light years :[
The scale of space is shocking. The fastest man made object, Helios 2 (http://goo.gl/xCow), at 250000kph, would take 17000 years to get to the next nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
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"We're left, like the starving donkey equidistant between two bails of hay, unable to decide on what to celebrate" <-- the closest of these things is 20 light years :[
The scale of space is shocking. The fastest man made object, Helios 2 (http://goo.gl/xCow), at 250000kph, would take 17000 years to get to the next nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
This post by Charles Stross is worth a read: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
To quote: "interstellar travel for human beings is near-as-dammit a non-starter"