[biblewonk]

we will never travel to the stars - no we will. What Columbus and Magellan did in their time was as techically difficult and dangerous as travel to stars today. Technology is there, but practical outcome is not. When our spacecraft of today - bamboo rafts - will be replaced by sail ships, we'll go. Adventurism, curiosity and lust for exploration always took upper hand.

No, not the same at all. Man was created with the ability to make big boats, like the ark, and spend long enough amounts of time in them that ocean currents alone would take you all over the world. Nothing even remotely like this is true about space travel. Think of the requirements to travel 25 trillion miles!

cold fusion will never work - it will not just because there is no such phenomenon like cold fusion.

We are in agreement here.

[Alexandre]

Man was created with the ability to make big boats, like the ark, and spend long enough amounts of time in them that ocean currents alone would take you all over the world. Nothing even remotely like this is true about space travel.

This is the part revealed to mankind thousands years ago. But sailors made several steps farther than the Ark carried by currents. They added sails, steam, diesel, turbines, nuclear reactors... All this is not in The Book. Forget the airplanes (or you deny their existence or practicality?). People got the ability to invent (ether from The God or evolution) - and they keep doing so.

If you show Wright Brothers scetch of F-104 Starfighter (or MiG-21), they will say that this thing will never fly and if it will takeof it will crash during landing. And prove it to you using their late XIX century bank of knowledge.

Think of the requirements to travel 25 trillion miles! - Just a very big Ark. Pick an asteroid, build a sort of ant's colony and go! One way travel, but me and Wirestripper will go. Right, Wirestripper?