XPost: rec.aviation.military, alt.economics   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/7/2026 12:34 PM, a425couple wrote:   
   >   
   > The fantasy of starships is no more realistic than magic   
   >   
   > Ellsworth Toohey  1:16 pm Thu Feb 5, 2026   
   > Cover for  Cover for "Tiger, Tiger" by Alfred Bester   
   >   
   > Interstellar travel — the kind in Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune — will   
   > never happen. The fantasy "exists on the exact same level of   
   > plausibility as wizards," argues Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at   
   > the End. Not because science lacks imagination, but because the   
   > distances involved are so absurd that no amount of future technology   
   > could overcome them without literally breaking the laws of physics.   
      
   We have ISS. Can we expand ISS into a huge space-ship or star-ship? Only   
   time will tell. I believe human being will try to build it but not on   
   the ground, possibly at Lagrange points.   
      
   Building a huge space-ship that can both land and fly to space indeed   
   sounds impossible, right now. SpaceX Starship is just the beginning??? :)   
      
      
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