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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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Gotta informed n00b laying down the physics quickness, love it.
You're right about the difficulties of maneuvering in space but it's not impossible, just takes thrust and overcoming inertial problems with occupants and the movement of the spacecraft in question.
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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?
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and the "turn or stop on a dime" at 0.1c... get real... it would crush everything inside the ship... and the ship... |
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Meh.
We're nothing but a big science experiment. Every once in awhile these aliens swing by and check out how their ant farm is doing. BFD.
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Think of the human race a mere 200 years ago. How many would have argued fervently that it would be impossible to ever travel to the moon?
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and, of course, the old "tractor beam..."
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I've read that interplanetary travel will one day be possible through portals, or "looking glasses", mirrors that cut through space/time. One second you're here, then step through the mirror, and next you're there. The discovery and subsequent testing of the Higgs-Boson particle will fuel this.
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You see... that's the thing.....
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Pray tell which SciFi show has ever realistically displayed full Newtonian physics?
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