Re: Are We Alone ?
Michael Dworetsky <[email protected]>
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On 16/05/2021 09:20, Daniel65 wrote: > 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.! Not stagecoaches, but early motor cars, which in the early days had to be preceded by a man walking with a red flag (so I have heard). It might be worth noting that in fact, there were many people killed or injured by horse-drawn carriages and wagons back when these were running rampant in our cities. No red-flag men. Nobel Prize winner Pierre Curie was killed when he was run over by a horse-drawn cart in Paris. >> >> 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". > -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus