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To: Star Traveler

If you think about it, even were there a way to accelerate a spacecraft to near the speed of light, it seems likely that over interstellar space there would just have to be a solid particle to collide with somewhere on the line between point A and point B - and it would seem that a particle impact at such a speed would be exceedingly dangerous to the spacecraft.


61 posted on 11/30/2013 2:22:41 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

At that point the spacecraft would no longer be a solid
object and would not even be in the same time frame as a
particle. At least that’s how I remember my last trip.


62 posted on 11/30/2013 2:31:07 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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