Re: Are We Alone ?

Bast wrote on 16/5/21 2:55 pm:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Amazing how the whole point of this thread continues to be missed,
>> that distances are FAR too great for any practical travel between
>> stars, even in the very unlikely event of traveling near light speed,
>> or of any communications. All experience so far has confirmed this.
> 
> You mean,......SO FAR
> It was not that long ago the same thought about being impossible was said
> about beng able to travel at speeds of over 30 miles per hour......
> Until it happened.

I seem to remember, way back when, learning that people were to walk out 
in front of stage-coaches with a lite lantern. So that limited the 
coaches to, what, 5 m.p.h.!
> 
> If I have missed the point that some people willl always refuse to believe
> that limits are only something thet has not been figured out yet, then you
> are right.
> 
> Wait until we discover that light actually can travel faster than "C", and
> it's medium is actually the "stuff" we now wrongly call "dark matter".

-- 
Daniel