As I sit here with the flu, the thought of travels to far away places makes for a pleasant distraction. How about a journey to Arcturus? If you could zoom away at light speed, you'd arrive in just ...

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Let’s settle on a distance in between, at the edge of survivability: 12 parsecs. Make it an even Kessel run. Arcturus, the reddish, fourth-brightest star in the night sky, is at about this distance.

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