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Originally Posted by thesheriff443
When you start to think about space and try to get your head around it's size and time in space it's really something incredible and makes my head hurt.
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...I think what’s also incredible, Sheriff...is the communication links through that vast space of the modern day...when we think about the delays in satellite links to far off earth places only a few years ago...the reality of back in the day would have been something like...
‘ Ground control to Major Tom’
(35yrs or so later)
‘Come in ground control, I’m hearing you, this is Major Tom’
...or some such thing...definately all whirling head stuff...