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Originally Posted by Bobbie
Air flight has air to push against, to use to turn and accelerate. Space does not. To "turn" in space traveling very fast is not easy, not like Star Wars flying through the asteroid field. The other problem is that the "contact" need only be a pebble to cause major damage going 0.1 c or faster...
hitting a bowling ball sized rock in space going 0.1 would be completely fatal...
and if you can't get to 0.1 c, Alpha Centuri is more than 50 years away... assuming you don't have to turn to avoid anything.
The simple truth is that you can learn to swim because you can push against water. If you push against nothing...
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Yeah.... if you're simply thinking in terms of normal propulsion known to humans at this point in time.
But what if an advanced species has overcome these trivial human physics issues due to several trillion years of further evolution? What if space and time can be manipulated in ways that we're currently unable to even consider?