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Space travel is an interesting hypothesis at faster than light speeds a couple problems still exist.....first what we see where it is (or actually was millions even billions of years ago) how do we aim ahead to reach where it is now? (as in Now now not the then now that we can detect visually) I don't know if the matter would be as simple as it was for WWII flying fortress gunners aiming ahead of moving targets--maybe someone has figured out a formula for this already I don't know. Such distances might bring unknown variables and non visual distortions when it comes to travel especially trying to hit moving targets at such distances.

The other problem is time dilation at speeds faster than light (if indeed possible) since time is not actually a fixed constant but a concept effected by constants. Would you get there before you left? Or would you almost get there (eg, traveling half of half of half etc the distance almost reaching it forever asymptotically) Or maybe you overshoot it in time or space and go plaid?

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Ahh... I love that you just said "go to plaid"... :D Well done.

Personally I don't think we even have enough pieces of the puzzle yet to tell what the heck they'll look like put together... but objects that are quantumly entangled affect each other instantaneously regardless of the amount of distance between them, such as the moon's effect on our ocean's tide. I can't conceive of us doing something here on earth that would instantaneously have an effect on an object in deep space (such as in the picture above), but quantum physics is telling us that it's possible...
 
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