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Pros and Cons of Various Methods of Interstellar Travel
universetoday.com ^ | Matt Williams

Posted on 05/14/2018 11:08:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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I doubt a ram scoop would work because you’d need to do aero braking, all while not accidentally not performing a slingshot maneuver out of the system.


41 posted on 05/15/2018 11:35:06 AM PDT by wastedyears (Americans are dreamers too.)
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To: FredZarguna
There is no shorter distance between two points than a straight line. Period.

Well...If the two separate real points are in the span of the straight line, this might be true.

But consider a single point by it self...If there is both a real (non-imaginary) and complex (imaginary) mathematical solution to identify that point, one might also say that the shortest distance between two points is a point....{:-)

42 posted on 05/15/2018 11:43:41 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: i_robot73

You can imagine a shorter distance between two points than a straight line, and if you do you’re delusional.


43 posted on 05/15/2018 6:13:03 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue to be born?)
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To: SuperLuminal

The complex plane is a metric space. If the points are distinct, the ordinary rules still apply.


44 posted on 05/15/2018 6:15:39 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue to be born?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"Time does not exist. Time is a construct of the human mind based on observations of movements of heavenly bodies.

that would only be plausible if you subscribe to the falsifiable Anthropic Principle.

Impirical proof that time exists is the principle of Entropy.

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity explains that what we perceive as the force of gravity in fact arises from the curvature of space and time. Einstein proposed that objects such as the sun and the Earth change this geometry.

if you fall from a cliff then time will become very real

45 posted on 05/16/2018 7:13:33 PM PDT by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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