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What's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real? (lemdro.id)

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[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you count Voyager, we already have.

Otherwise ... Yea, I'll be surprised if society in general even makes it to 2100 unscathed.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Voyager is fantastic, but it’s still way, way closer to the solar system than anything else.

An excerpt from Wikipedia:

At this rate, it would need about 17,565 years to travel a single light-year.[78] To compare, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is about 4.2 light-years (2.65×105 AU) distant. If the spacecraft was traveling in the direction of that star, it would take 73,775 years to reach it. Voyager 1 is heading in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, and they are still on a galactic orbit, not a solar orbit. They are, unquestionably, the first things we're sending off, regardless of whether they arrive anywhere substantial.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why I don't get excited to hear about the discovery of 'Earth-like planets' 182 light years away.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

30 years ago we didn't even know for sure if planets around other stars was a common thing and had no expectation we'd actually know their chemical compositions

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 4 points 3 weeks ago

Bad news with the AMOC modeling yesterday. 2100 is starting to seem optimistic...