Ahhh yes, the most successful space company by a large margin, who launches more payload into space than the rest of the world combined, who are testing the biggest rocket ever created which happens to be fully reusable, is becoming a bigger joke everyday.

Critical thinking, my guy.

Their starlink support isn't waning whatsoever by the way, they're just not allowing ukraine to put starlink on weaponized drones. They can still use it the exact same way they've been for the whole invasion.

> Now if an object is lets say 200 light years away, would it take 200 (Earth years) to travel to said object?

It would take 200 years for photons or other massless particles (eg gravity waves) to travel from there to here or vice versa - but it would take a manmade spaceship hundreds to thousands of millenia because we don't have yet any rocket engines efficient enough to get there faster.

Justifies the huge grants those labs received.

And can moons have moons? https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/483/1/L80/5195537

If we assume there are infinite universes, then there is both a net positive and negative 100% chance. You exist in as many universes as you do not.

Why tag 'importance'? Nature probably doesn't signify importance so much as it does the natural way things happen. Gravity attracts, velocity and trajectory come into play and an object gets trapped into a dance with these three playing the beat and harmony.

so... about 30% chance?

Zero.

It might be a copy of you, but it won’t be you since “you” is product of your conscience.

You are not conscious in any a way of any alternative you, meaning they are not you, in an meaningful way of the word.

It be freaking sweet to meet a true doppelgänger though.

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How so?

I’d say it’s analogous to quantum mechanics- 50/50. It maybe does exist until we observe it, which is why it is an elusive concept to grasp. It’s in the state of existence until we look for it, at which point it no longer exists. As a physics major, I learned to accept that some things are just beyond our limit of perception as human beings. I think if we could somehow detach our consciousness from our mind and be just that - a consciousness without our body (which is bound to this reality), we could see through the proper lens to answer your question. However, we are limited to the physics of our dimension. As Einstein said about quantum entanglement - “spooky action at a distance.” I think the same can be said for multiverses. It’s simply that - a spooky concept that resides a great distance from our reality. Maybe beyond this life, but in this one - its a philosophical theory. I sometimes think this reality would crumble if we could answer such things. I don’t think our minds could handle such a truth.

Tidal heating is a thing. Jupiter does do a bit of that to it's moons but it's moons also do that to each other.

Bear in mind that even if Starship didnt fly until 2027 it would still be the fastest developed super heavy lift rocket, and the first to be reusable.

If it works, it will leave the Moon just a ticket away.

Lets have patience, the reward will be worth it.

it would take 200 Earth years of moving at the speed of light, to travel to said object.

Thank you! This helps me understand things a bit better.

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Yeah but there is no thought process or plan… it sounds like you guys are arguing why the solar system decided to get many moons. Cause and effect… that’s it. The universe is incredibly simple.

You are correct if you are asking if that's how long it would take light to reach those places from the Earth.

Of course there's no known technology that would even begin to allow us to approach those speeds for travel.

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At closest approach, I wonder how high you'd have to launch/propel something for it to leave the gravity well of your tiny moon and be sucked into the terrifying vortex of the gas giant. (Come to think of it, how weak would gravity seem on a moon no more than a couple of miles across? How high would you be able to jump and how long would it take to float back down? The mind boggles!)

A light year = the amount of time it takes for light to travel in a year. If we could travel at light speed it would take 642 years to reach Betelgeuse. However we can not even come close to those speeds. So it would take a lot, a lot longer.

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The closest planet outside our solar system is Proxima Centauri B.

Proxima Centauri B is 4.2 light years away. That may not sound that much, but it’s actually about 25 trillion miles. That’s 25,000,000,000,000.

The space shuttle Discovery could travel five miles a second. At 5 miles a second it would take 37,200 years to travel just one light year. One. So Proxima Centauri B is more than a hundred thousand years away for us.

A light year may not sound much, but it’s massive.

Importance??? We make things important, universe just do. This is the first time I’ve someone humanizing the solar system.

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