Alpha Centauri

[NicePete]

@Dr. Love

Very cool. Unfortunately, all we’ll find is xenofungus and mind worms.

Not to mention Isles of the Deep and Locusts of Chiron…

[MacTech]

@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.

Or be in possession of an Infinite Improbability Drive…

[Napier]

>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.

[cochrane]

@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.

I’ll get right to work on it!

[UncleRojelio]

It’s not Alpha Centari, but, for the first time, methane has been detected on an extra-solar planet.

[Anne_Neville]

@UncleRojelio

It’s not Alpha Centari, but, for the first time, methane has been detected on an extra-solar planet.

Ooops, sorry, that was me. I had beans for dinner last night.