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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Unless you believe UFO stories where humans are working with aliens on a Mars base, or where they take humans back to their planet to study. Not that I do, but I want to cuz it would be cool.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Considering the relative speed of literally everything we can experience as humans, and that light ranks at the tippy top of every single one of them as INSTANT in pretty much any context other than math homework, it's honestly pretty fucking wild that we not only got humans 1.3 light-seconds away from Earth, but got them back alive to tell about it.

That is straight up amazing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

We ain't hardly been nowhere in the 'verse yet.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And a statistically large number of those people that we sent up there were from Ohio, one can assume because they were trying to get as far away from Ohio as possible.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...and we only did it because there was a dick-waving contest between two nations.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Soviets had no interest in going to the moon (yet) and were more focused on living in space before going outside earth's orbit. The US was waving it in public on its own

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The ultimate townies, on a universal scale.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And those objects that are now 46 billion light years away move away from us faster than light.

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