Many Sci-fi movies, shows, books, comics, etc. are based around the premise the being able to travel at the speed of light would finally allow a civilization as paltry as ours to traverse the stars and make the final frontier finally accessible. One slight hole in this logic that I have never seen addressed, however, is how one controls an object moving at light speed. Many people seem to have a hard enough time processing information and responding fast enough to avoid collisions in cars today. How could the same people possible be able to handle moving at the speed of light? It seems simply beyond man to truly comprehend moving this fast, much less how to steer something moving this fast. The idea, I suppose, would be that computer guidance systems would handle most of the actual piloting of the craft. This then means that each system would have to be connected to a real-time map of EVERY body moving in whatever star system or area of space it found itself in. This in turn would require centuries of observation and mapping before any sane person would hurl themselves at a speed faster than they can conceive across a Universe as random and chaotic as ours. Many dream of the day that humanity can harness the speed of light to expand across the stars, but who dreams of all the years of logistical work that must be done even once we figure out how to move that fast?
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