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Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-fine-then dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The clash of two titans — physics and chemistry — are major barriers to human space travel to Mars and beyond, and may well make it impossible ... at least with current technologies."

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  1. Math by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it is impossible in the real world, why not solve it with math?

    1. Re:Math by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

      I looked into it (math undergrad) and I devised a way to shorten the lengthy spacetravel to Mars from 3 months to 1 + i months! Now, the only thing I have to do is to think of a way that lets people travel in complex time, but I think that it won't be too hard to solve.

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  2. Re:Errr... Chemistry? by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nuclear!? What about tsunamis?

  3. Re:Forget air travel. by ciderbrew · · Score: 1, Funny

    [pause] These go to eleven.