“...the whole trip (one way) will only take about 8,000 years...”
And when they arrive they will be greeted by the Chinese - who solved the FTL problem 7,900 years prior.
Yeah they skipped right over that whole attaining First World status thing and ensuring that there was plenty of food for each citizen. They went right to solving the FTL problem. Food is boring.
Can anyone name an exclusively Chinese invention, that wasn’t built of off technology that was given to them by the West?
No? Damn those clever Chinese.
And when they arrive they will be greeted by the Chinese - who solved the FTL problem 7,900 years prior.You really wouldn't need FTL, would you, to beat 250,000mph?
FTL's a pipe dream... and at this point, so is any kind of interstellar travel.
I'm satisfied with dreaming of colonizing the solar system.