Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us
Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us
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How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It's really right in front of us!
They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out.
For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?