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SFC Casey O'Mally
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As long as you don't accelerate beyond ludicrous speed
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Great stuff!
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SFC (Join to see) "The distances between the stars are so vast that they can make your brain melt. Take for example the Voyager 1 probe, which has been traveling at 35,000 miles per hour for more than 40 years and was the first human object to cross into interstellar space. That sounds wonderful except, at its current speed, it will still take another 40,000 years to cross the typical distance between stars.

Worse still, if you are thinking about interstellar travel, nature provides a hard limit on acceleration and speed. As Einstein showed, it's impossible to accelerate any massive object beyond the speed of light. Since the galaxy is more than 100,000 light-years across, if you are traveling at less than light speed, then most interstellar distances would take more than a human lifetime to cross. If the known laws of physics hold, then it seems a galaxy-spanning human civilization is impossible.

Unless of course you can build a warp drive."
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I believe humankind has a lot to learn. For now I am content fishing off the back of my boat. :)
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SFC (Join to see) - Yea... life passes us by too fast already.
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SPC Cody Verba - Thanks for your comments.
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