[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

okay, I've come to a conclusion. (Oh, and I got my cable back today) It's almost time for my board exam, so what the heck, why not get it turned back on. I think I was disciplined enough to do without it for so long while I was in school.

But back to my conclusion. I was watching a documentary about UFOs, and I don't understand why people believe that aliens are visiting this planet. Oh, and then they're saying that some people think they have the ability to travel at the speed of light. And I'm assuming that the speed of light remains the ultimate speed limit, despite the appeal of Star Trek. I mean, even though I'm excited about seeing Skyline this weekend, I know something like that would never happen. Space is too vast, plus what people don't get is the faster someone travels, the more mass they acquire. Like, if you're at rest on Earth, then your mass is what you would measure it to be based on your weight. How can a ship travel at the speed of light? I just can't see how, because if we wanted to travel at the speed of light, it would take rockets of mind-boggling power to accelerate a reasonably sized interstellar spacecraft to even 10% the speed of light. If anything, since their mass would rise so dramatically just like anything else, I'd say at the most, (if they have the technology people think they have) they wouldn't be able to travel at anymore than about 1% of the speed of light. Not with that much mass build up. Uh uh, no way.

Actually CG there are some interesting theories that might permit apparent superluminal travel, if not in fact.