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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
I like the way you think, but i have to say that just from the statistics of the voyager 1 space probe thing, that we probably have a good idea of how far it actually travelled and also how far things seemed to be from it when it was way out there in space. even thinking of walking across the united states seems hard to comprehend, so when i look up at the stars...i am pretty sure they really are ridiculously far away...
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very true, if there were in fact vacuums, you would also think that the universe would equalize its self.
but look at it from this point of view. If i were to travel outside the gravitational pull of this planet, we would maintain our speed with very little resistance. So our top resonable speed of travel is consistant with our ability to store energy to slow ourselves down from that speed and ability to navigate and and predict any obsticles like planets or gravitational pulls.