Thanks! I swear the (completely understandable) misunderstanding of the “speed limit” thing has done more to damage kids dreaming about science more than anything ever created.
It’s the worst.
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Yeah, this always confuses the bejesus out of people…
If you were able to constantly accelerate at 1000 g’s on the 4.37 light year trip to Alpha Centauri you would travel up to %99.9999999 the speed of light and get there in 6 days.
The 25,000 light years to the center of the Milky Way?
You would get there in 12 days at…