#With current tech it'd take us literally tens of thousands of years to reach even the nearest star
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Writing prompt for humans discovering a planet inhabited by an alien civilization, but both us and them being completely unable to travel to each other - due to, you know, physics - and instead becoming interstellar pen palls via other types of signalling.
#With current tech it'd take us literally tens of thousands of years to reach even the nearest star#Like we would need an absolute breakthrough in our understanding of the nature of physics to improve this in any way#But maybe you could do some crap with using light to signal each other? I dunno. It'd still take centuries to reach relatively nearby stars
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