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9354754 No.9354754 [Reply] [Original]

>average distance between stars is 5 light years
>You have to wait for AT LEAST 5 YEARS to even send a message to a neighboring star system, provided your traveled at 0.99c

It's fucking bullshit and is cucking humanity from being a truly interstellar species

>> No.9354758

>>9354754
>cucking
Back to /pol/.

>> No.9354761

unless wormholes exist.

>> No.9354811

>>9354754
It used to be higher but the Reptilians' bastard scientists lowered it a fuck load when they were at war with the Atlanteans.

>> No.9354822

>>9354754
speed of light is far from the problem at the moment
it's not relevant at all to the kind of spaceship tech we have

>> No.9354829

>>9354822
But it still fucks up possible Earth-Mars internet connection.

>> No.9354835

>>9354829
not unless you REALLY want to play DotA with your martian friends

>> No.9354842

>>9354754
Just git gud
>Trying to send live humans to other stars
>Not sending a bunch of cubes full of semen, eggs and plastic bags filled with nutrient fluid
>Not having the cum-swarm managed by self replicating AIs housed in nanobots
ezpz

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>>9354761
>wormholes exist

>> No.9354846

>>9354835
Last I checked internet usage was mostly about instant messaging and highly interactive web apps/sites. Both borderline impossible to use from Mars.

>> No.9354852

>>9354846
Is it? I haven't seen the data but I imagine video streaming was a very big chunk of it. Youtube in mars would be fine.

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>>9354846
>not using the chance to create a mars-local internet with no normies allowed