[QUOTE=Dr. Love]
Very cool. Unfortunately, all we’ll find is xenofungus and mind worms.
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Not to mention Isles of the Deep and Locusts of Chiron…
[QUOTE=Napier]
Here’s another one. We know you can’t travel at speeds faster than c, the limiting relative velocity between objects that have mass. The so-called “speed of light”, as if light per se was somehow important in all this.
So, this absolutely and inflexibly rules out, say, a weekend jaunt to Alpha Centauri’s planets. To think otherwise you’d have to misunderstand physics, you’d have to be just plain incorrect.
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Or be in possession of an Infinite Improbability Drive…
>Or be in possession of an Infinite Improbability Drive…
Well, see, that’s the thing, isn’t it? You know how rare those are? Misunderstanding physics is way, way more accessible.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Very cool. Let’s get cracking on building a FTL drive, and once we get there let’s all try, seriously try, not to screw up Nova Terra like we’ve screwed up Earth.
Cochrane? Zefrem Cochrane? Line 2.
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I’ll get right to work on it! 
It’s not Alpha Centari, but, for the first time, methane has been detected on an extra-solar planet.
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio]
It’s not Alpha Centari, but, for the first time, methane has been detected on an extra-solar planet.
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Ooops, sorry, that was me. I had beans for dinner last night.