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Originally Posted by antinimby
^ to give you an idea how long 630 years is...Columbus landed in America 524 years ago and look how much the world has changed since then.
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Speaking of years... time to have the mind blown:
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft travels at 36,373 miles per hour (58,536 km/h). Launched from Earth in mid-January, 2006, it reached Pluto in mid-July, 2015 … nine-and-a-half years later. If New Horizons were aimed toward the Alpha Centauri system, which it isn’t, it would take this spacecraft about 78,000 years to get there.
Nearest star is 4.2 light years. Think about that time traveling there. And the galaxy is 100,000 light years across. The nearest galaxy is 2.2 million light years. The nearest habitable planet is close to 1000 light years away.
We are screwed if we ever have to leave Earth or the solar system for a new planet!
But other than that, 630 years is nothing. Hell, where only .008% to the closest star with the fastest man made object!
So in the meantime, we get to enjoy the city and life in general. But its also good to know that in time due, everything that we see will be gone. Everyone! Everything! Sort of a messed up humbling moment, but it can serve as a lesson to appreciate life. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.