On 19/06/2020 2:58 pm, palsing wrote:
On Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 4:25:57 PM UTC-7, wrote:

It all comes down to Distance = Speed x Time . Do the simple math ! Even at near light speed, which is very unlikely, travel between even close neighbors would take prohibitively long. This is why, although intelligent species that have mastered space travel, likely abound throughout the universe, we are never visited by any.

So tell us, at .999c, how long would it take the crew to travel 8 light-years from their perspective. We know it would take at least a little more than 8 years from the perspective of us here on Earth...



Arriving dead or alive? Imo humans couldn't survive such a journey &
they'd all be dead within weeks.