Interstellar is probably possible, just totally pointless. Intergalactic, on the other hand, is just bonkers.
solosnake posted...
It seems likely that interstelar travel is likely impossible to achieve in a single human lifetime, however we may yet develop a way to send out dna colonies that just crash land and hopefully evolve into life on their own
Nah, you can travel anywhere you want in any amount of time you want if you go fast enough. Once you get moving fast enough, you actually have less distance to go. It's an interesting consequence of special relativity. Like, if you could accelerate to relativistic speeds instantly, the trip to Andromeda could be a ten foot trip. Only thing is getting to that speed requires stupid amounts of energy.
This is why it's ok for Han Solo to have done the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, even though a parsec is a measure of distance. Of course, the line was probably made in mistake and just happened to be ok anyway.
Are you referring to time dilation under c? As in, the closer to c you get, the harsher the dilation, allowing you to travel billions of lys in a few minutes depending on how close to c?
Or is this another thing? ---
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