[The_Reader_David]

That’s okay, the colony ship will have a eugenics program to select for skeletal and muscle strength, and will gradually increase its axial rotation to raise the simulated gravity during the trip, which should take about 6400 years travelling 600 mi/sec (approx. escape velocity for the solar system).

(Kind of shows how irrelevant this ‘news’ is when you think about it.)

[JamesP81]

That’s okay, the colony ship will have a eugenics program to select for skeletal and muscle strength, and will gradually increase its axial rotation to raise the simulated gravity during the trip, which should take about 6400 years travelling 600 mi/sec (approx. escape velocity for the solar system). (Kind of shows how irrelevant this ‘news’ is when you think about it.)

Really illustrates the bottom line: if we want to explore the stars, a system of moving faster than lightspeed will be required. There's a device called an Albucierre (sp) drive that, mathematically, is feasible but it would require exotic matter to function. Same goes with using those theoretical wormholes that crop up in Einstein's General Relativity theory. Again, making use of them, if the mathematical models are right, would require use of exotic matter.