The fantasy of starships is no more realistic than magic

Interstellar travel — the kind in Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune — will never happen. The fantasy "exists on the exact same level of plausibility as wizards," argues Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End. Not because science lacks imagination, but because the distances involved are so absurd that no amount of future technology could overcome them without literally breaking the laws of physics. — Read the rest

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