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  "textContent": "\n\nInterstellar 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 \n\nThe post The fantasy of starships is no more realistic than magic appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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