13th July 2010, 3:42 PM
I don't see any evidence in that missive of logical fallacies.
Honestly, it doesn't offend me at all. Don't misread that. I'm saying that right now there's no scientific support for the idea of faster than light travel. If you really wanted to know, I'd LOVE to be able to reach distant worlds in a week's time instead of in thousands of years on a generational ship. There's very little I'd like to see more than that. In fact I was supporting space travel in that previous thread of your's.
Your appeal to me being "angry", to me "not knowing everything", and so on is meaningless. All that matters is evidence to back up the idea. Do you have it?
I don't have absolute knowledge nor do I claim to, but my "guess" is better than your's. You'd do better to make rational arguments backed by evidence than just attacking me. I'm just the messenger. Keep this in mind. I'm constantly reading new stories about astronomy, I love it. I look into all sorts of interesting "solutions" to something like warp drive, but peer review of most of them (and yes, that includes the physicists who came UP with the ideas) have in just about every case concluded that none of them are workable.
Honestly, it doesn't offend me at all. Don't misread that. I'm saying that right now there's no scientific support for the idea of faster than light travel. If you really wanted to know, I'd LOVE to be able to reach distant worlds in a week's time instead of in thousands of years on a generational ship. There's very little I'd like to see more than that. In fact I was supporting space travel in that previous thread of your's.
Your appeal to me being "angry", to me "not knowing everything", and so on is meaningless. All that matters is evidence to back up the idea. Do you have it?
I don't have absolute knowledge nor do I claim to, but my "guess" is better than your's. You'd do better to make rational arguments backed by evidence than just attacking me. I'm just the messenger. Keep this in mind. I'm constantly reading new stories about astronomy, I love it. I look into all sorts of interesting "solutions" to something like warp drive, but peer review of most of them (and yes, that includes the physicists who came UP with the ideas) have in just about every case concluded that none of them are workable.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)