XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.atheism, can.politics   
   XPost: alt.alien.research   
   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   JTEM wrote:   
   >   
   > We do not know how to travel at 80% of the speed of light.   
   >   
   > Oh, it is possible. Nothing in our science, nothing in our   
   > physics says it's impossible. Nothing within our knowledge   
   > rules it out as a possibility. But, we do not know how to   
   > tvael at 80% of the speed of light.   
   >   
   > We can do it, as far as we know, it does lie within the   
   > realm of possibilities but, we don't know how.   
   >   
   > It's a tough problem, traveling at 80% of the speed of   
   > light, a lot of things we'd need to figure out.   
   >   
   > Some form of propulsion that can get us that fast.. energy   
   > and/or fuel to run the engines... DOUBLED, because we'd   
   > need exactly as much to bring us to a stop once we get to   
   > where we're going...   
   >   
   > Never mind an interstellar comet or meteorite, a rock, a   
   > pebble at those velocities would vaporize our ship. We'd   
   > need a solution for that, how to protect us from debris...   
   >   
   > So there's a lot to work out before we'd be capable of   
   > traveling at 80% of the speed of light, and everything tells   
   > us that it's possible and nothing tells us that it's   
   > impossible.   
   >   
   > This is not the case with the speed of light.   
   >   
   > As far as what we know, our physics, all of sciences tells   
   > us that NOBODY and NOTHING can exceed light speed, or even   
   > reach it.   
   >   
   > "We don't know" does NOT apply to everything equally. In   
   > the case of the speed of light, we do know. To the best of   
   > our knowledge, according to our science, our phsyics it's   
   > impossible.   
   >   
      
   some say that fuel such as anti-matter can be used to move at a   
   significant percent of c.   
      
   i am hoping that we can figure out how to move space instead of   
   move through space with new physics.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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