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Having spent most of my life helping to create things that didnât exist before and that people now canât live without, I think itâs pretty clear you need both: imagination to help you figure out where âBâ is (or which âBâ youâre interested in visiting), and logic to help you get there..Imagination has already suggested how we might get to the stars without violating Einsteinâs limit (â186,000 miles per secondânot just a good idea, ITâS THE LAWâ): ever see the musical âBrigadoonâ? About the town that sleeps for a hundred years and then wakes up for a day? Itâs probably possible (at least it doesnât violate any absolute natural laws). And in such a town (or planet, or on such a space ship), an 80-year human lifespan would last something close to 3 million years of outside time⊠enough to cross the entire Milky Way galaxy 30 times in a ship puttering along at a mere 10 percent of the speed of light (something DARPAâs already talking about how to achieve)..I suspect somebodyâs already written a sci-fi story about thisâŠ
The best description of reaching the stars through sleep ships was, IIRC, in Norman Spinradâs âOutward Boundâ, where it comes across as better than not getting thereâbut only marginally. We want to see wonders with our own eyes, to explore now!
first thing we need to do is figure out how much âstuffâ there is between the stars. hitting a sand grain at even 5% of the speed of light would be devastating.
Heinlein also did the generation ship story âOrphans of the Skyâ which had a great twist in another one of his stories. By the time the generation hip reached itâs destination mankind had developed ftl and beat them to their destination
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
Imagination will even take you beyond the stars! âIn your imagination.
puddleglum1066 almost 13 years ago
Having spent most of my life helping to create things that didnât exist before and that people now canât live without, I think itâs pretty clear you need both: imagination to help you figure out where âBâ is (or which âBâ youâre interested in visiting), and logic to help you get there..Imagination has already suggested how we might get to the stars without violating Einsteinâs limit (â186,000 miles per secondânot just a good idea, ITâS THE LAWâ): ever see the musical âBrigadoonâ? About the town that sleeps for a hundred years and then wakes up for a day? Itâs probably possible (at least it doesnât violate any absolute natural laws). And in such a town (or planet, or on such a space ship), an 80-year human lifespan would last something close to 3 million years of outside time⊠enough to cross the entire Milky Way galaxy 30 times in a ship puttering along at a mere 10 percent of the speed of light (something DARPAâs already talking about how to achieve)..I suspect somebodyâs already written a sci-fi story about thisâŠ
Simon_Jester almost 13 years ago
Albert Einstein said that?
And all this time I thought it was Dr. McCoy, arguing with Mr. Spock
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 13 years ago
he also said that imagination is more important than knowledge.
bmonk almost 13 years ago
The best description of reaching the stars through sleep ships was, IIRC, in Norman Spinradâs âOutward Boundâ, where it comes across as better than not getting thereâbut only marginally. We want to see wonders with our own eyes, to explore now!
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 13 years ago
first thing we need to do is figure out how much âstuffâ there is between the stars. hitting a sand grain at even 5% of the speed of light would be devastating.
Durak Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Heinlein also did the generation ship story âOrphans of the Skyâ which had a great twist in another one of his stories. By the time the generation hip reached itâs destination mankind had developed ftl and beat them to their destination