space.com— Harmless interstellar hydrogen becomes deadly ionized radiation that would fry the crew and electronics of starships traveling near light speed, according to a physicist.
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They're not moving fast, they're warping space. Warp speed = plot device to get around "light speed" and associated limits altogether. Because nobody wants to watch a show where it takes hundreds of years at near-light-speed to get anywhere.
No it won't. Despite what scientists may think, they don't know everything about the universe. Therefore, there will be some method of doing this without dying. We just don't know what it is yet.
Look up time dilation in regards to relativistic speeds. And I'm not talking about warp...which is folding of space in the Star Trek Universe. I'm talking about if someone were really be able to travel near the speed of light how time effects them as oppose the people outside the ship traveling that fast. The people on the ship could travel to the center of the galaxy and to them...traveling at light speed...it would only seem to take about 30 or so minutes (depending on how close to the speed of light they actually get). But to the people left behind on earth, it would appear to take the ship 30,000 years to get to the center of the galaxy.
tgjerusalemMar 8, 2010
They're not moving fast, they're warping space. Warp speed = plot device to get around "light speed" and associated limits altogether. Because nobody wants to watch a show where it takes hundreds of years at near-light-speed to get anywhere.
wbrnsMar 8, 2010
Dammit.
dorxtarMar 9, 2010
That's what the deflector dish is for! Looks like someone isn't up on their star trek starship engineering!
frostekMar 9, 2010
Does it also cause deja vu? Because this story has already been frontpaged very recently.
Closed AccountMar 9, 2010
maybe if YOU'RE
diggbMar 9, 2010
"Shields up!"
mizuhochanMar 9, 2010
No it won't. Despite what scientists may think, they don't know everything about the universe. Therefore, there will be some method of doing this without dying. We just don't know what it is yet.
greevarMar 9, 2010
The deflector dish is for deflecting debris while traveling at sub-warp speed.
amazetbmMar 9, 2010
What is a navigational deflector used for, again?
goofballjonesMar 10, 2010
Look up time dilation in regards to relativistic speeds. And I'm not talking about warp...which is folding of space in the Star Trek Universe. I'm talking about if someone were really be able to travel near the speed of light how time effects them as oppose the people outside the ship traveling that fast. The people on the ship could travel to the center of the galaxy and to them...traveling at light speed...it would only seem to take about 30 or so minutes (depending on how close to the speed of light they actually get). But to the people left behind on earth, it would appear to take the ship 30,000 years to get to the center of the galaxy.