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To: Arkie2
For man to travel to other star systems a craft faster than the speed of light will be necessary. Hard to imagine.
5 posted on 05/09/2005 5:43:35 AM PDT by sandydipper (Less government is best government!)
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To: sandydipper
For man to travel to other star systems a craft faster than the speed of light will be necessary.

I don't see how that is possible at the moment. That pesky thing called physics keeps getting in the way.

10 posted on 05/09/2005 7:22:16 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: sandydipper

"a craft faster than the speed of light will be..."

Well, yes and no. I think cryogentic storage could get a living man there. We could also send wave after wave of supplies and materials with the intelligence to fly into orbit in preparation for our arrival in 10,000 years. We could also sidle up to a black hole, orbiting it during its progress through the galaxy, and find ourselves very far from our origin without aging very much because of relativistic gobbly-gook (I read something about this in a book by Robert Forward). Always have hope.


25 posted on 05/10/2005 10:32:52 AM PDT by mudblood
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