Or you wake up and there's nothing there because that star died a thousand years ago and the light from the supernova hasn't reached earth yet.
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Fortunately that really couldn't happen. Supergiant stars are unlikely to be promising colonization targets.
that's why we should only go when it's possible to travel near lightspeed, can't beat that
If they had faster ship technology, surely they’d be able to locate the older ships in transit and relieve the astronauts of their duty.
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Back to the future that is less distant than the future you wanted to go. A Hollywood classic.
Oh that is absolutely brilliant. I never thought of that 😆