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Old 08-10-2010, 06:44 AM  
Paul Markham
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One of the things I get to do a lot now is watch TV. On National Geographic and History Channels. So I see a lot about the research into space travel. There are big problems with it.

One is space and the vastness of it. Even at the speed of light it would take a very long time to get to the next star, let alone find an inhabitable planet. There is a theory that time can be bent. Think of time like a sheet of paper, point A on one side point B on the other. Say 100 light years apart. The theory is that it can be bent like folding the paper in half so they are next to each other. As I said it's all theory.

Without solving this problem there would big problems taking fuel, food, water and air enough to sustain humans.

Then gravity. The human body wasn't built for gravity and prolonged exposure to weightlessness is not good for us and will run down the body. Even in suspended animation.

We need to solve the problems we have living here first. Not try to find somewhere else to fuck up.
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