Achieving Light Speed

Originally posted by Astyanax

Originally posted by CavemanDD
haha yeah, lets tie a ship to a spinning rope and just hope we release it at the right time to "throw" it in the right direction. This idea is about as smart as the guy's who said "Why don't we use a controlled explosion to propell things?" Its crazy talk.

You mean, like the controlled explosions we use to propel our cars, aircraft, trains, ships, spaceships and just about everything else that has an internal combustion engine?

Yeah maaaaaaaaan, real crazy talk.

[edit on 26/3/09 by Astyanax]