How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity.
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Is there a border we will never cross?Are there places we will never reach, no matter how hard we try?Turns out there are.Even with science fiction technology, we are trapped in our pocket of the Universe.How can that be? And, how far can we go?We live in a quiet arm of the Milky Way; A spiral galaxy of average size,– about 100,000 light years across –consisting of billions of stars, gas clouds, dark matter, black holes, neutron stars,and planets, with a supermassive black hole in the galactic centre.>From afar, our galaxy seems dense, but in reality, it consists, mostly, of empty space.With our current technology, sending a human to the closest star, would take thousands of years.So, our galaxy is pretty big.The Milky Way is not alone, though.Along with the A...
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Is there a border we will never cross?Are there places we will never reach, no matter how hard we try?Turns out there are.Even with science fiction technology, we are trapped in our pocket of the Universe.How can that be? And, how far can we go?We live in a quiet arm of the Milky Way; A spiral galaxy of average size,– about 100,000 light years across –consisting of billions of stars, gas clouds, dark matter, black holes, neutron stars,and planets, with a supermassive black hole in the galactic centre.>From afar, our galaxy seems dense, but in reality, it consists, mostly, of empty space.With our current technology, sending a human to the closest star, would take thousands of years.So, our galaxy is pretty big.The Milky Way is not alone, though.Along with the A...
