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Originally Posted by Espy

Ah, that. Saw that a few days ago. They also are developing the technology that, in a few years, may be able to let us travel at 10c...which means we -could- potentially get from Earth to HD in about four years.

Originally Posted by Kali_Namir

WOWS! I can't wait for Star Trek to be real!!! It would make my LIFE!!!

Star Trek style flight would be very cool...but anything that violates relativity is just a theory, at this point. I read about an interesting "warp drive" concept that is theoretically possible, but it requires more energy than the entire planet can produce to move something the size of a small car, I think.


That said, it would be entirely possible to get to that place in 4 years, if we had powerful enough propulsion (which we don't, currently).

...But Earth would see that as being more like 50 years. Relativity is fun.