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To: cripplecreek

lets be ridiculous and pretend it is possible to go faster than the speed of light. Any man made craft going at that speed hitting something as small as a grain of rice would explode like a nuclear bomb.


16 posted on 05/17/2012 6:57:04 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va; All

Never say never... Luddites like you have always been proven wrong.


17 posted on 05/17/2012 7:05:41 PM PDT by KevinDavis (The birther movement was started by a 9/11 truther..)
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To: central_va
"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean the atom would have to be shattered at will."

-- Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist, 1932

It's always dangerous to say something is impossible.

/johnny

18 posted on 05/17/2012 7:06:54 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: central_va

That assumes that the craft itself is moving. The most probable methods of FTL involve the craft staying still, inside a bubble of warped space-time. And the BUBBLE is moved. . . but the craft never changes velocity. Hence, relativistic collisions would not be a problem.

OF course, the specific method of creating and deflating that bubble, and changing the position of the bubble, is the trifling technical details we have yet to solve. . . .


26 posted on 05/17/2012 7:28:30 PM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border. I **DARE** you to cross it. . . .)
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To: central_va

Which is why we use a Brussard ramjet.


40 posted on 05/18/2012 12:09:19 AM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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