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Supplied headline will be true in 1 year. Actual headline: On November 13, 2026 Voyager Will Reach One Full Light-Day Away From Earth
It's already true because implied precision and comparing continuous measurements for equality and all that. It's both pedantic and meaningless to say it's true on (all of) Nov 13 2026 but not true today.
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It's already true because implied precision and comparing continuous measurements for equality and all that. It's both pedantic and meaningless to say it's true on (all of) Nov 13 2026 but not true today.
I’m not sure your point is warranted given there is a year between today and November 2026. Surely we can be more precise than a year?
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But if we don't advance our technology enough to escape this planet, then we'll go extinct for sure, no ifs
In hundred millions of years... We've been humans for 300k years, we can chill for a couple of centuries, the rush might actually cause our extinction too
There could be other disasters we don't know about between now and then.
we shouldn't rest on our laurels.
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Early as in we may have developed before any other civilizations? That's interesting. We're speculating of course, but what would explain us being the first after so much time – 13.8 billion years?
The universe was very hot in the beginning. It took a while for stars to form. Even longer for planets to form. Even longer for planets to cool down. The early universe was a violent place. Full of destruction. After the protoplanetary disk finally coalesces to planets and when planets finally stopped getting bombarded by meteorites, they could start cooling. In the earlier days of the universe there might have been…