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[geko]

I was actually thinking about means of travelling the other night whilst lying awake in bed and i came to the conclusion that the speed of light is pretty slow. Sure, to mars or even pluto or something this speed would be pretty novell, but it's hardly a viable option for extensive space travel - millennia of travel and you're still in the milky-way?! pff

Also, this is not to mention getting to and travelling at that speed is very expensive on resources. What do the laws indicate? Something like it would take an infinte amount of energy to get there (this amount no being available) and then this much energy would give the propelled object and infinte amount of mass (this amount not being possible). Something like that im sure.

So anyway, from this we can deduct i believe that trying to harness the speed of light as a means of travel is pointless.

This then leads me to try and think of other means of travel apart from linear (<-i think is the right word to use), and i come to... no idea. I suppose the idea of worm holes and such is the first idea that comes to mind - but this idea is just as wacky at our level of understanding isnt it?

So i was thinking, are we forever stuck in our own solar-system? I like to think that one day humans will have colonised space (our galaxy at least) and that we harness the energy of the suns etc., with some kind of array to power our needs. But how to get there? How do we get to these other suns to use and planets to colonize? This would be a very exciting discovery.