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NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] BeardedGingerWonder 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I'd love this to happen, it's a very different proposition. We knew heavier than air flight was possible, birds had been doing it for millions of years prior to the Wright brothers. Even humans had demonstrated flight before, the Montgolfier brothers had demonstrated flight more than 150 years before the Wrights.

The issue is we know of nothing that can transmit faster than the speed of light, we have no model to work from.