Writer's Block: To Infinity and Beyond!
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I'd settle for getting outside the Terra-Luna system for starters, and I'd like to see interstellar flight nailed down before I finally die. We wouldn't even have to get to the whole Orion Arm, much less the whole Galaxy. Eta Cassiopeiae, Zeta Tucanae, some of those stars with only catalogue numbers for names? Those would be fine.
Anything we actually discover as a consequence would be icing on top of the cake.
I'd settle for getting outside the Terra-Luna system for starters, and I'd like to see interstellar flight nailed down before I finally die. We wouldn't even have to get to the whole Orion Arm, much less the whole Galaxy. Eta Cassiopeiae, Zeta Tucanae, some of those stars with only catalogue numbers for names? Those would be fine.
Anything we actually discover as a consequence would be icing on top of the cake.
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Date: 2009-08-03 08:22 pm (UTC)If reliable fusion power is developed, that hurdle may be overcome. Getting beyond that would require considerably more effort. If you can't accelerate human bodies and cargo to more than 10% of light speed (and we are nowhere near that now), interstellar flight just isn't feasible. Sorry.
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Date: 2009-08-03 08:29 pm (UTC)Don't you think I already know all this?
Let me dream irrationally out loud on this, okay?