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kldload t1_ixvo7gu wrote

Reply to comment by BroasisMusic in Realistically speaking When do you think we will land humans on Mars? by EnaGrimm

It kind of is strange to me. Why don’t we send some terminally ill astronauts or people willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to pioneer the first mars trips? Send them there to perform critical soil tests and dig deep searching for life. Like I’m not even terminally I’ll but I’ll gladly take one for the team.

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kldload t1_it0on32 wrote

Reply to comment by gwardotnet in My theory of the universe by Clean-Membership-308

This is not true. Only very distant objects expand at away from us at apparent faster than light speeds. Nothing is moving faster than light in its own reference frame. The speed of light is\ 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec. That means its only the effects of the change in distance that appears to be faster than light could travel. In essence, the objects are receding away from us at speeds exceeding the distance light could cross for the same unit of time.

This is because each "point" in space is expanding at the rate above. The more "points" in space you have between you and a distant object, the faster it expands.

If there are two megaparsecs between you and an object, it will appear to recede at 146 km/s/mpc.

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Works out to about 4100 mpc between you and object to exceed c.

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kldload t1_isv043b wrote

Reply to comment by grchelp2018 in The Europa Clipper mission may be as exciting as a manned mars mission and it’s only two years away by Wide-Escape-5618

Well obviously finding life anywhere eclipses anything else... but we are more likely to find life on mars via human exploration. Any life on Europa will likely not be detectable without considerable equipmnt on the surface through (most probably) a starship visit. This would require on-route refilling most likely as well. Perhaps a belta-louda depot.

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