"I have a mansion, forget the price
Ain't never been there, they tell me it's nice"
~ Joe Walsh (Life's Been Good)
I think growing up with Star Trek and Star Wars has given many a false sense of what interstellar travel would be like.
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Need to add that to my future plans.
True. I thought I knew the answer, but it caught me by surprise as well.
Interstellar travel may take a while.
Quite surprised as I recall.
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I had an astronomy teacher at my first college in Massachusetts give an excellent demonstration on astronomical size.
He used a volleyball to represent the sun, then placed pebbles at increasing intervals to represent the planets and their orbits.
As I recall, Pluto was a tiny rock that was placed a 1/4 mile away.
He then asked the class where the nearest star would be in relation to the "Sun".
Most (not me, I said D.C.) guessed a few miles.
The answer: Reno.
We have Kansas as an example of how well tax cuts and trickle down worked:
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