Potentially habitable planet found

[darin]

The science fiction genre would be lost without technologies that are physically impossible. We may be able to turn matter to energy and back again someday, but we will never travel faster than light.

...that's why we build a SUB-SPACE WINDOW, foo'.


And never say never

[gabosaurus]

The new planet is already a popular topic on some of the Bay Area talk shows. One host has already advocated a tax, which he would be willing to pay, that would fund sending all the liberals there.

[Gaffer]

The science fiction genre would be lost without technologies that are physically impossible. We may be able to turn matter to energy and back again someday, but we will never travel faster than light.

It wwa once said man would NEVER be able to fly. It was once said you can NEVER go faster than the speed of sound. Never seems to come more often than tomorrow.

[glockmail]

It wwa once said man would NEVER be able to fly. It was once said you can NEVER go faster than the speed of sound. Never seems to come more often than tomorrow.

Two unrelated reasons. One is scientific, the other is not. A scientist would say of course a machine can fly since birds already do. A scientist would also say that a machine cannot fly faster than light because of the theory of relativity.