You Are Not Late. You Are Early. You were born at an inconvenient time. Too late to discover continents. Too early to book passage to another star. Interstellar travel occupies that uncomfortable region between mythology and engineering. It is not fantasy. It is not forbidden. It is simply staggeringly difficult in ways the human brain refuses to internalize. The nearest star beyond our Sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light-years away. The broader system it belongs to, Alpha Centauri, sits at the same humbling distance. A light-year is not a measure of ambition. It is the distance light travels in one year.
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