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thaumasiotes
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Complex life may only exist because of millions of...
Only for values of "travel" that consist entirely of beginning in a particular location, and then staying there.
xvector
on May 30, 2019
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Still counts as space travel.
MaupitiBlue
on May 30, 2019
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In much the same way jumping counts as air travel.
infectoid
on May 30, 2019
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I thought being in a plane in the air counted as air travel and being in a spacecraft in space counted as a space travel?
munchbunny
on May 30, 2019
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While we are capable of (human) space travel, it's currently only really for science. On the other hand, people travel by air all the time for practical reasons.
adrianN
on May 30, 2019
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It's been a long time since humans were far enough from Earth that their spacecraft didn't experience significant atmospheric drag.
elliotec
on May 30, 2019
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I don't get it... is this one of those "The moon landing was fake" things or are you like not aware that we've traveled to the moon?
thaumasiotes
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For any meaningful sense of "space travel", the moon and the earth are not in different locations.
Nor are we able to stay on the moon, though that is a weaker point.
sm64
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Depends on whether you consider the ISS to be a destination in space.
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