TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in cosmology threads as an accessible visual explanation of the unreachable universe and its expansion limits.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Topic

limits of space travel

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• This is forgetting to account for the accelerating expansion of the universe. Even if one were to depart from Earth today, traveling at light speed, 94% of the observable universe is already impossible to reach. See this excellent video for more detail: [VIDEO]

• I've been enjoying the kurzgesagt collection of videos[1] which discusses the same phenomena, and how we literally can never travel to large swaths of the universe. [1] [VIDEO]

• I always appreciate content like this which is easy to digest but still inspires awe in the universe around us. Scrolling around the map and looking further and further back in time reminded me of this Kurzgesagt video [0]. It's crazy to think how much …