Re: Are We Alone ?
"Bast" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.astronomy,alt.books.arthur-clarke,alt.fan.heinlein |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Michael F. Stemper wrote: > On 15/05/2021 23.55, Bast wrote: >> [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...... > > Was that said by physicists, or by newspaper writers? Probably by the physicists. After they went to their doctors to get bled with leeches to let out the bad ether gasses that made people sick. We laugh at the past . Just like hundreds of years from now people will laugh at how stupid society would have been to think a thin cloth mask would keep them from getting sick from a KOOF Virus, as they walked though the forests, miles from any other human,......or as they drive in their cars on highways with the windows up.