All Comments on 'The Outsider Ch. 02'

...creating whole people, not just gonads on legs. I really look forward to the next episode.

Ask a physicist and he will tell you that you can't travel faster than light. Push him a little and he'll admit that what that means is it is impossible to ever measure a speed faster than light.

Push him really hard and he will admit that if you can reach a speed just a little slower than light then time slows down a lot. It slows down so much that you can live to reach the planets around even stars in Andromeda. This is possible because not only does time slow down but the distance you must traverse to get to the stars shrinks as you approach the speed of light. The distance given in Astronomy books is the "at rest" distance not the "at high speed" distance which can shrink to as little as 1 mile.

The problem is not the speed of light, the problem is the cost of the energy needed, which could reach trillions of dollars for a 2000 ton spaceship. Also, the engine necessary does not exist yet. And how to avoid being killed by the acceleration, like being squashed on the floor. And where to get the fuel to return. You get the idea, it is going to be really really expensive.