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briandmyers  ·  3309 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Faster Than the Speed of Light

    that would pretty much mean that we are stuck in our solar system until the Sun burns up, or until some cosmic explosion wipes us all out.

Not exactly. A ship capable of a constant 1 g acceleration could visit almost anywhere in the galaxy within a single lifetime of the crew. But they could not come home, since time for the folks back home would pass much more quickly, so says time dilation anyway.