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Blue Kitty:
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Wait wha-
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Morituri:
I feel like somehow, maybe sometime around 1981 or so, we made a mistake, and we're in the wrong 2020.
Could we please back up, get a do-over, and try for the 2020 that Syd Mead used to send us postcards from?
(sigh. RIP Syd Mead, illustrator and visual futurist. He left this world in December 2019. Might have been a very early COVID death, but probably not).
EDIT: Definitely not. Lymphoma. Still.... it's a shame when a visionary passes.
sitnspin:
The mistake was ever starting sedentary culture in the first place.
snubnose:
--- 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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Well, that is correct.
Not just random objects, even stars themselves can travel through galaxies without any close encounters, ever, for billions of years.
In a galaxy like ours, a star system measures in something like lighthours (Neptune is ~5 lighthours from the sun). While the distance between stars measures in lightyears (next star from the sun is currently 4.4 lightyears away, and the closest encouner with another star that we know of was still a lightyear away at closest approach).
Would it be otherwise, the sun would have already been stripped of its planets, because thats what would happen if a star gets too close to the solar system.
LeeC:
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