Invisible wrote:

> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
 
> I'm glad it's not just me who constantly mis-spells "star". :-D

It's my keyboard! The **&%$ keyboard at wrk has its keys all placed one to
the left of my home keyboard.

Oh gods, I just misspelled "work" too!
 
>> To even get to more "close" stuff, 6 YEARS, 10
>> YEARS - or -thousands- of years (at LIGHTSPEED!) to another galaxy.
 
> Indeed. Without warp drive and the ability to vastly exceed the speed of
> light, it will just take such an absurdly long time to go anywhere that
> it doesn't bare thinking about. Think about it: how long ago did we land
> on the moon? And how long after that did we land on Mars? Oh, wait...

... we haven't. Yup, three years out, three years back, or something like
that?

And that's just in our solar system, never mind -real- interstellar stuff.
 
> In fact, half the stars in the night sky probably DON'T EVEN EXIST ANY
> MORE. It's just that it's taken that long for the light to reach us.

Now that's a depressing thought. Spending millions of years getting there,
only to find that the star you were going to went nova or just collapsed in
on itself a few hundred thousands years back.
 
Serious case for some kind of hyperspace or space-warping technology.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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