On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:05 PM Vareck Bostrom (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:That was probably never going to happen, no matter how much effort was put into space exploration. At least we know Proxima b exists though, and can say with high confidence that there are planets around other stars. Back in the 1970s, that wasn't a given thing.On 09Jan2019 1356, Catherine Berry wrote:
> cliffs of Miranda. Or even slide into orbit around Proxima b, and watch an
> alien sun rise over the limb of an entirely new world.
There still seems to be *some* hope for a real FTL drive, at least as of 2012:--Richard Aiken
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