• @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    168 months ago

    We’re in the solar system, so just look around.

    They say it’s hard to visualize the distances, but just look up in the sky. You can see most of the planets and how tiny they look because they are so far away. Jupiter, despite being massive enough to cause the solar system’s centre of gravity to be outside of the Sun, is just a tiny spec that looks like a bright star.

    If humans had started walking to Jupiter the moment we came into existence, we still wouldn’t be there. Because you can’t walk to other planets, you need a rocket or spacecraft of some sort.