Board Thread:Off-topic/@comment-26462356-20160826052936/@comment-5518179-20160826223325

The crazy thing though, is that it takes 4.3 years for radio signals to get there, meaning when you send people there, by the time Earth makes another contact, we don't know if they would still be alive. Satellite data would take enormous amounts of time to return.

It'd be like an entirely different world.