[mindburglar]

Great article. Thanks.

Speed shmeed. Space is malleable. Eventually we’ll figure out a way to bend it or fold it.

[Pontiac]

I had mentioned A. E. van Vogt’s story “Far Centaurus,” originally published in 1944, in which a crew arrives at Alpha Centauri only to find its system inhabited by humans who launched from Earth centuries later. I alluded to this story yesterday.

This story seems to me to have a moral failing of the later society.

Would it not be a true moral failure of the later society knowing the history of the earlier launch not to have sent a rescue mission to the earlier mission.

The later society must assume that the earlier mission would be in danger of death on such a long journey. It would be a moral imperative to attempt a rescue of those on the earlier mission especially if it was a Generation Ship.

[dp0622]

Was reading about that the other day. Takes a TREMENDOUS amount of energy to warp space.

Anti Matter holds the strongest potential for power but it would take longer than the universe’s existence to get enough for one trip.

[Fhios]

We have to conquer our own solar system first. Not war type conquer but technology type conquer.

I figure (imho) Earth doesn’t have sufficient material to produce viable interstellar travel.

We need viable mining operations on moons, asteroids and planets.

Viable Industry complexes in very high orbit or even mid-space between here and the moon will the start of it all. Alls that’s needed for unmanned transport (or manned for you classic types) from earth to complex to moon.