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Old 17-08-2006, 20:55   #12
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Originally Posted by Argos
There are only two problems to be solved:
1. If you reach light velocity you create your own Black hole, so you will be crushed to singularity.
2. If you are beyond light velocity you have left our universe, because it is defined and restricted by light velocity.
There is also the slight problem of getting to the speed of light in the first place, as shown in this quote from here

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To accelerate an object of non-zero rest mass to c would require infinite time with any finite acceleration, or infinite acceleration for a finite amount of time.

Either way, such acceleration requires infinite energy. Going beyond the speed of light in a homogeneous space would hence require more than infinite energy, which is not a sensible notion.
As for terraforming Venus, good luck. At the moment, Venus has a surface temperature of 400 degrees C, a surface pressure 90 times that of Earth, and clouds consisting mainly of sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid droplets. The surface also melts and reforms every 100 million years.

Not my ideal retirement home
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