Re: Are We Alone ?

Michael Dworetsky wrote on 18/5/21 12:51 am:
> 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).

My mistake!! I did think of it being in front of cars .... but a walking 
man just seemed toooooooo slow!! ;-P

> 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"
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Daniel