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Originally Posted by jb92563
I second this opinion.
I think that depletion of natural resouces and over population will intersect in 200 years.
We will have our hands full with just trying to survive then, which inevitabilly will lead to wars over dwindling resouces, civil unrest and anarchy in the broad populations, collapse of governments etc
Besides I think Obama already canceled that reseach project.
Traveling at the speed of light is not nearly as problematic as navigating faster than the speed of light to avoid hitting things that you can not see because the light indicating their presence has not reached you yet.
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Yes, agreed on the resource depletion vs population increase.
Obama is an idiot that only serves to make corporations more money. I regret voting for him more than I did Bush.
You would think its a problem to avoid objects, but time is slowed. Steven Hawkings theorized that at the speed of light, we may be able to reach the edge of the universe in 8 years on a vessel traveling 99% the speed of light, while millions or billions of years would go by in the universe.
Time is relative to mass and speed. Mass slows time, for example our GPS satellites run a billionth of a second faster than here on earth and have to be compensated for.