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Is reaching for the stars, literally as hard as reaching for them figuratively?
Just wondering, when someone tells you to reach for the stars...are they secretly telling you to reach for something that is completely out of reach and very hard to get to or are the stars really more closer than we tend to realize?
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- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Harder. Under our current propulsion capability reaching a star literally would take so long that craft with people on them would have to be breeding colonies for there to be anyone alive when the craft got there.
The nearest is Proxima Centauri at 4.2421 light years distant. The fastest craft yet launched would take 72,000 years to get there.
Source(s): Wikipedia - 1 decade ago
Well, you can reach for the stars quite easily. But to get the stars, now that is difficult.
I think it means that you should try hard, and to raise your expectations for yourself, to be the best you can be.
- YA ..Lv 51 decade ago
It is the setting sail, which begins the voyage. Whether we reach our destination is important, however to our human need of drive and motive what is more important is the journey.
- 1 decade ago
i think what one means by that is to try for the impossible because it is only through that we will ever move closer to our dreams