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This thread is like a broken pencil: pointless.
hedgie:
You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Blue Kitty:
Still my favorite method of space travel
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtMMupdOC4
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: LTK on 06 Sep 2020, 10:04 ---Now, who was it that said "Space is very, very, very, very, very, very, very big"?
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Well, the moment you start looking at subatomic levels (like electrons, protons wnd neutrons), even dense matter becomes a place of a lot of space, like throwing an asteroid in the direction of a solar system. Within a galaxy, it probably will hit something, but not necessarily the very planet you may have aimed for.
Morituri:
I'm not sure that's true. If we launch something at some speed in excess of galactic escape velocity in a random-ish direction, I think the odds actually favor it leaving the galaxy before it has a meaningful encounter with anything.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 07 Sep 2020, 17:11 ---I'm not sure that's true. If we launch something at some speed in excess of galactic escape velocity in a random-ish direction, I think the odds actually favor it leaving the galaxy before it has a meaningful encounter with anything.
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Yeah, well, it's probabilities. The more stuff it comes close-ish to, the higher the chance of hitting something - and that's kinda my point. Probabilities and chances, and a whole lot of nothingness.
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