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It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?

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[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Huh....so we may fail to achieve faster than light (FTL) travel but we could probably manage faster than stick (FTS) travel

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Easily. I imagine that most spacecraft are already traveling faster than the speed of stick. It's likely only a few thousand meters per second

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