See post #18. Even Einstein was wrong sometimes.
Besides, 1/10th light-speed gets us to the nearest star in 50 years or so, and pushing a star-wisp type probe to those speeds should be within reach even now.
And you are already wrong, because we have hardware out past the heliosphere, in interstellar space.
/johnny
Look you can fantasize all you want. I am very pro space but I realize the limitations. Our solar system is the outer boundary. It is just physics. Don't take it personally. Because we can throw space junk past our solar system into space doesn't really mean anything. Lets say the CLOSEST star is 4 light years away and a space vehicle could get there in 50 years, then radio back information -> 54 years total. What is the point? And that is the closest star.
Look I like a good science fiction novel too, but is is pure escapism.