Thread: Extrasolar exploration: only a fantasy?
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Old 07-17-2010, 11:02 PM   #13
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Sagan chose wormholes for interstellar travel in his novel Contact because it's the only possible method he could come up with to travel the immense distances in the time allotted without violating c. Warp Drives are unfeasible for the very reasons ardeegee mentioned earlier.

The real life trouble with using wormholes, assuming they exist, is that they would be inherently unstable and there's no guarantee at where or when the traveler would arrive.
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