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Originally Posted by Battlebasset
I love Star Trek. But it totally sidesteps the issues of faster than light travel and the issues with space/time when you approach the speed of light. A quick google search will verify this. Even at the speed of light, the closet star, Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 years away.
And this isn't an issue of developing better technology. It's physics. Unless you can figure out a way to suspend those laws, we are stuck pretty much in our own solar system neighborhood.
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You’re letting an individual human being’s short lifespan affect forecasting of humanity’s long term (and I do mean lllloooooong term
) potential. There are no known limits…even considering all the speed-of-light and other ‘restrictive’ laws of physics.
Engage!