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Thu 04 Apr 2003Why 'Star Trek' is wishful thinking
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: When you look up at the night sky, the stars don't seem all that far away. The simple fact is that they are enormous distances from Earth, however, and we shall have to perfect revolutionary technologies before we can realistically attempt to reach the stars.
We must first discover how to travel faster than light, how to make a spacecraft move without propellant and how to power the spacecraft.
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