Here are some must-read sci-fi books that do just that-books that make you think and are catalysts in achieving space flight: They have explored this impossible challenge from different perspectives and inspired the real brainiacs to persist. The masters of science fiction have taken us to the stars through space opera books and in hard science fiction. But others read the tale and become inspired. Often, people scoff at the ideas and call them fiction. Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth Introduction It is the plea that someone should work on the future.” -L. “Science fiction does NOT come after the fact of a scientific discovery or development. Perhaps the pages of a science fiction or fantasy novel would be a good place to start-a place to “prime the pump,” so to speak. Or is it? Are there secrets of physics not yet known? Secrets that would allow faster than light speeds? What about creating wormholes? Or quantum effects where we could exist in two locations at the same time or at least transit from one place to another instantaneously? What about being able to act in the physical universe light-years distant from our presumed location? Would that be travel or just projection? Would it matter? It just seems impossible for humans to boldly go where no one has gone before! The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is a mere 25,000 light-years from us and 42,000 light-years from the galactic center. Interestingly, though, there is another galaxy closer to our solar system than our galactic center. Light travels 186,000 miles per second.Īt lightspeed, it would be a four year trip from the Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to ours.Įven more extreme, to reach the galactic center of our own Milky Way would require 30,000 years of lightspeed travel. Just to clarify an astronomical unit is 93.0 million miles-the average distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun and a light-year is the distance that light travels per year, which is about 6 trillion miles. Travel at the speed of light takes years, decades, centuries, even millennia to transit the space between neighboring stars, let alone galaxies. Ron Hubbard, To the StarsĪstronomical units and light-years are depressingly small units in describing the distances. “Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy.” -L.
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