songwriterz wrote:If this is true then how can we ever hope to explore our own galaxy, much less cross the interstellar gulfs?
The problem is not the the light barrier, it is the
time barrier.
Arguably, we're close now (ie. ~100 years) to being able to build a ship that could travel the galaxy indefinitely, albeit very slowly.
What we have to do is figure out how to live long enough for such a voyage to make any sense. Another poster said a similar thing-
Storm_norm wrote:If we are going to travel out of our galaxy and explore the galaxy then its not going to happen with our current "state of consciousness".
It'll be easier to engineer the body to last for one thousand years than to engineer a ship capable of travelling at anything close to light speed.
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