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A Lesson in Distance

from desperately confronting it by GREAT WALL

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There are some wonderful places in the world. There are buildings taller than we can imagine, and trees wide enough for cars to drive between their roots. There are ancient pyramids we would struggle to build today, and islands we created all on our own. There are mountains that spit fire into the sky and oceans, the darkest depths of which we have never even seen. And we all want to see every beautiful inch of it. Our excuse for staying put is that it's all so far away.

There have been rumours of a high speed tube train being planned that would get from Los Angeles to new York in around six hours. That's a journey of 4,490 km, making the speed 748.3 km per hour. And that's incredible.

Mars is the Earth's closest planet, but it's still a whole 225.3 million km away. At the rate of this futuristic train, it would take 34.37 years to arrive on Mars.
Pluto is much further away. Going by the same speed, it would take us roughly 653 years to arrive. But, on the 14th of July 2015, a space probe from Earth made it within 450,000 km of Pluto. And it only took 9.48 years, which means it travelled 13,848 times quicker than this incredibly fast train. And it still took nine and a half years. Pluto is very far away, but it's still in our own little galaxy.

Now, the earth is incredible and there's still so much of it I'd like to see, but the stars we see as tiny specks from our bedroom windows could, like our own sun, be the source of life to a whole other solar system. And from there, our sun may even be too small to make out. And our trees and pyramids and oceans are all irrelevant out there. So I think we need to reassess our concept of distance and take a day trip to another world.

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from desperately confronting it, released December 7, 2015
Researcher: electronics, voice
Kat: lyrics, voice

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