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By Professor Scott (Mathew McCalpin)
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#562762
Very cool but they blew it on the Asteroid belt. Even though we can't see any other asteroids themselves by scale, the belt itself is 1 AU thick and that would most definitely be visible by scale.
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Fritzinger wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:12 am I feel a bit nauseous now thinking about all that "achievable" sci fi that talks about colonising the rest of the solar system.
It's big, but the world used to be big and take weeks and months to travel, and now "Around the World in 80 Days" is a vacation ad.
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By Professor Scott (Mathew McCalpin)
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#562817
Fritzinger wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:12 am I feel a bit nauseous now thinking about all that "achievable" sci fi that talks about colonising the rest of the solar system.
Let's pitch a tent in our own backyard before we concern ourselves with visiting the neighbors' yard.

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