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To: Windflier

Even if there are other planets with breathable air on them, we aren’t going to get to them unless we can create a “Jump to lightspeed” transportation system.

We can’t even get our subways to work in DC.

It’s gonna be a long time before we go out into real space and even if by some chance we reached a planet after many generations of travel, I doubt that anyone will know about it for many years.

Meanwhile back on earth, “Houston, we have problems” and they need to be solved now.


55 posted on 08/26/2013 5:19:51 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Even if there are other planets with breathable air on them, we aren’t going to get to them unless we can create a “Jump to lightspeed” transportation system.

Physicists around the world are busy cracking that enigma as we speak:

The Alcubierre Warp Drive

It's only a matter of time until our species hacks the code of the physical universe and creates FTL. I fully expect that our great grandchildren will live to see that breakthrough, provided we don't destroy ourselves first.

59 posted on 08/26/2013 5:26:37 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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