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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?

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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 8:14 am
(September 15, 2016 at 7:53 am)Stimbo Wrote: Conversely, if you travel interstellar at anything less than the speed of light, it would take you the rest of your life to get anywhere.

Unless you travel as a humsicle.  Tongue
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 8:20 am
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 8:39 am
{clicks stopwatch} You lot are slowing down.

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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 9:06 am
(September 15, 2016 at 7:53 am)Stimbo Wrote: Conversely, if you travel interstellar at anything less than the speed of light, it would take you the rest of your life to get anywhere.

Yeah, so far physics doesn't bode well for the idea of space travel.

We'd have to load up the moon with a few million people and booster rockets, and survive for thousands of years in transit.
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 11:04 am
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?

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