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Originally Posted by arcsine
Forgetting all the movies and TV shows which portray us humans easily and effortlessly bounding between the stars, lets now look at some of the realities.
..... Humans make mistakes. Lots of them. Spacecraft are very complex pieces of equipment with little room for error in either design or implementation. ..... Is there any reasonable belief that we can actually make a spacecraft possible of warp travel that would safely provide a habitable environment, not experience any structural or electrical failures for the dozens (hundreds?)........
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I accept the limits of physics, but I'm very cautious about accepting the limits of engineering.
Imagine if a Kalahari bushman 5000 years ago said to his mate "I bet one day man will build a giant hut from melted stone that weighs as much as 165 elephants, that will move 600 people at a time around the world in a day, flying above the breathable air and the weather, while those inside hold conversations with people on the ground".
Just because we can't conceive the engineering
now, doesn't make it impossible.