The Voyager probes are the fastest man made space craft - traveling roughly 38,000 MPH. It took them 35 years to leave our solar system. It would take them 73,000 years to reach the closest star to our solar system. Yes, space is pretty big.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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The Universe isn't actually that huge - it just seems that way because our human bodies are very small in comparison. When you're dead and of course without a body to compare, you can almost embrace it.
Here’s the thing that always amazed me… galaxies are so big that for the time it takes light to go from one side to another is measured in years. So we are seeing two very different moments of time from each side of a galaxy.
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Can't see any banana 🍌
Sorry...
Just help to find it 👶
Thanks for the visual aid!
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BTW, Alien civilizations be like:
Earth's measurement system is wild. First imperial vs metric, now this?
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