Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  Heraclitus writes:
in response to eagle1610:  Ben, Heraclitus  Good article. It
seems as if the laws of physics and our biological limitations
have hamstrung us from conceptually entertaining human (deep)
space travel. Plus, if you could move .10 speed of light - space
presents physical obstacles; meteors, asteroid belts, radiation
etc...  25 tril mi to the nearest sun.  Now we know nothing
(again) moves faster than light. Which means computers, humans
are all constrained by the principles of relativity that nothing
moves faster than light - so no time travel.  Truly limited.
Eagle... absolutely agreed. I suspect that if you were moving
"forward" at 18,600 miles per second (0.10 the speed of light),
anything that hit you (or, more properly, that you hit), would
be moving at 18,600 miles per second toward you (relatively).
Considering that the average bullet moves at about 0.5 miles per
second, I really have to wonder what the inpact would look like
for even a BB si