-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 December 1998 07:46
Subject: Re: Travelling the Stars
>At 02:34 PM 12/10/98 -0500, Dan wrote:
>>you
>>can get anywhere in the universe in an arbitrarily short amount of time,
as
>>measured by the traveler. No weird physics is involved here
>
>Just weird engineering. The faster you go, the harder the crap you run
>through, even if it's vanishingly thin by our standards. Using a Savage
>e-m catapult [cf. THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT] several solar systems in length
>(doable without weird engineering) and nano-sized AI craft, and another e-m
>system to catch you (built in advance by slower machines), maybe you'd get
>somewhere interesting before you were ablated. Otherwise I suspect we're
>better off looking for weird physics loopholes.
Samael