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interstellar travel

[¦in·tər¦stel·ər ′trav·əl]
(aerospace engineering)
Space flight between stars.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Interstellar travel is virtually impossible, and neither trade nor conquest would be profitable at interstellar distances even if it did somehow become possible.
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The space tech innovators are working on a sustainable solution for interstellar travel on spaceships.
As scientists have discovered more Earth-like exoplanets and begun to delve into the options for interstellar travel -- one idea includes using a laser-propelled, microchip-shaped probe -- the conversation has been shifting.
He noted that " aliens could look so different from how we expect, and that they may be able to travel huge distances -- because we simply can't comprehend their make-up or technology." "This makes it difficult for us to imagine technology that could have been produced by aliens living on planets older than Earth," he said, adding that "We need to re-visit even our most cherished assumptions", including that "interstellar travel is impossible or highly unlikely".
My personal interest in interstellar travel was piqued not by an astrophysicist, but rather by a moral philosopher.
The foundation's goal is to preserve libraries of human knowledge for interstellar travel and to protect these information in the event of calamity to Earth.
Even with current technology, however, interstellar travel is conceivable on the kind of timescales we're talking about.
b) We are the first: We and many other species are on the way to super civilisations that would allow to be seen after mastering interstellar travel.
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