SF/SPACE TRAVEL: The Rate of Progress
Aug. 9th, 2019 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineSomething that came up in discussion with Mark Shainblum over at Facebook:
To get to a scenario like Star Trek (where such travel has been normalized for a couple of centuries), never mind Star Wars (normalized for 50 thousand years at minimum), we're going to have to go through a phase like we see on The Expanse. We'd best get used to that idea.
And that's if we figure out something in the laws of physics that makes warp drives, hyperlight jump tech or whatever technologically possible. There's people doing that research in several places across our planet right now, yes, but their progress - if any - is going to be slow. Until the prototypes get proven out. If they get proven.
Most of you regulars reading this already know these things. What I needed to do here was remind myself of these facts.
To get to a scenario like Star Trek (where such travel has been normalized for a couple of centuries), never mind Star Wars (normalized for 50 thousand years at minimum), we're going to have to go through a phase like we see on The Expanse. We'd best get used to that idea.
And that's if we figure out something in the laws of physics that makes warp drives, hyperlight jump tech or whatever technologically possible. There's people doing that research in several places across our planet right now, yes, but their progress - if any - is going to be slow. Until the prototypes get proven out. If they get proven.
Most of you regulars reading this already know these things. What I needed to do here was remind myself of these facts.
