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Unfortunately the distance to even the nearest stars, makes travel to them unrealistic in any of our lifetimes. Sure we're getting new observational knowledge, but it's still depressing to think about the scale of the universe.



It would be a lot more depressing if we had already found all there was to find and knew there wasn't anything more...


There are known limits, "the Limits Of How Far Humanity Can Go In The Universe" no matter which technologies it possesses:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-limits-of-how-far-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4yYHdDSWs

"Appreciate the view we have today; it’s the greatest one any living creature will ever have of our Universe, exactly as it is."


Considering the Universe is debatably infinite. I don't think we have to worry about that scenario.




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