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So it's only worthwhile to do big excursions if participants self-fund it or we missed something about relativity and faster-than-light travel. Funding it would be like the Roman empire telling us a small boat will land in Genoa in 2025 that spent the last two millennia traveling the world and collecting data with the best tools of the first century.

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Yep. Interstellar space is pretty famously big.

You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Space is big. Space is dark. It’s never hard to find a place to park

- Burma Shave

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