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		partiallypro on Sept 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien p... But that's assuming you're traveling at the speed of light, right? In reality it would take much much longer than 111 years.

Yajirobe on Sept 11, 2019 [–]

The fastest man-made object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

Travelling at that speed (0,00064c - no relativistic effects) would take ~170,000 years.

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