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Cube Inmate · 04-27-2007, 12:33 AM

An article on the infeasibility of interstellar travel using our current knowledge of propulsion technologies:

http://www.calphysics.org/articles/merc2000a.html

Pretty depressing look at things, if you ask me. The only real hope for exoplanet "exploration" is development of better and better remote sensing techniques (e.g. telescopes & stuff).

04-27-2007, 12:33 AM	#44
Cube Inmate First Line Centre Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boxed-in Exp:	An article on the infeasibility of interstellar travel using our current knowledge of propulsion technologies: http://www.calphysics.org/articles/merc2000a.html Pretty depressing look at things, if you ask me. The only real hope for exoplanet "exploration" is development of better and better remote sensing techniques (e.g. telescopes & stuff).