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Originally Posted by Dinny Blues
The ability to travel at the speed of light is useless without the ability to steer and stop the vessel. There are a couple of problems here.
I once dropped a tie rod at 70mph and lived. I would hate to drop a tie rod going any faster than that.
I don't think you have a clear path out there in space. There's lotsa space boulders floatin' around. Not to mention all the space junk from the stuff they blowed up in them Star Wars movies.
What kind of reaction time would it take to drive at the speed of light? You'd have to be Madam Cleo or somethin'.
Dinny
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Well, way over 99% of the universe is actually empty space. That's why they call it space.
In many spots, you could travel for millions of light years in any direction and not even see anything to run into. The emptiness between galaxies is mind bottling.
But you're right that we'd have a problem with speed and collisions. You really wouldn't be able to see and react to anything during travel that fast. I'd guess that we'd have to create a 3D map of the travel area and completely program flights ahead of time.