Since the other thread drifted into interstellar colonization... Regrettably, to avoid a crazy generational space ship problems, interstellar travel will have to be able to generate a few percent ...

Gallery: Visions of interstellar starship travel The inconvenient length of ... crewmembers should be made aware of the potential problem and receive extensive linguistic training before launch ...

“[Voyager 1] has been blazing through space at 38,000 miles per hour, and after 30 years of travel ... interstellar voyage, that they wanted to change course? Mission planners may foresee this ...

Interstellar space travel. Fantasy of every five-year-old ... we have interstellar space probes currently in operation. Except the problem is that they're going nowhere really fast.

But there are technological problems that do need to be overcome ... in large enough quantities that it could be useful for interstellar travel. Excitingly enough, the first two challenges are ...

“With today’s technology, even a small probe would have to travel nearly 100,000 years to reach its destination,” René Heller ... “This finding prompted us to think about the possibility of stopping a ...

But interestingly, Romanovskaya proposes that interstellar travel might be happening via ... encounter serious or insurmountable technical problems when using spacecraft to transport large ...

Perhaps the most technologically viable method of interstellar travel is something known as ... generational ships would be fraught with their own problems, mostly logistical.

I think that there has been incredible focus and interstellar travel is being taken seriously ... are going to fix certain kinds of problems for certain kinds of peoples. They are not inclusive.