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To: BenLurkin

6300 years?? Humans would have been there and back long before the descendants would arrive. Likely they would be intercepted and offered a choice of destinations.


11 posted on 06/14/2018 5:40:17 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65

The speed of light is too slow for interstellar travel, and the amount of energy required is infinite.........


16 posted on 06/14/2018 5:45:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: xkaydet65

Maybe.

We all like to dream about super-fast interstellar travel, but barring a miracle, the speed they’re talking about is probably not likely to be improved upon very much.

On the other hand, 6,300 years is plenty of time in which civilization on Earth could collapse completely. In which case space exploration will come to a screeching halt while our intrepid colonists (and there descendants) are in transit.


17 posted on 06/14/2018 5:45:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: xkaydet65

Sounds like the plot of “Icarus at the Edge of Time” short scifi story. Google it.........


29 posted on 06/14/2018 5:54:31 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: xkaydet65

Heinlein and others have shown that the poor bastards in a colony ship will arrive to find the planet already inhabited and thriving from the generations of colonists who hopped the FTL ship that left earth after the tech was invented a century later.


93 posted on 06/14/2018 8:19:09 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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