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“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System

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417 points fuidani | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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londons_explore ◴[17 Apr 25 09:24 UTC] No.43714580[source]▶
This is happening 124 light years away from earth.

That means if we develop a way to make a space ship accelerate at 1g for a long period of time, you could go there in just 10 relativistic years.

Unfortunately, whilst science allows such a rocket, our engineering skills are far from being able to build one.

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1. lucb1e ◴[17 Apr 25 09:58 UTC] No.43714789[source]▶
If you find that sort of thing interesting... I don't always know how seriously to take the things on this channel, but I discovered Fraser Cain not so long ago and find the ideas mentioned in the interviews to be fascinating, for example "Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkGRVvA23qI (warning: it's over an hour)