The energies required to propel you across the solar system to another planet and to stop you when you get there and then return you to Earth are not going to be easy to produce.

   Then, you are going to ask, how do the UFOs get around the galaxy  in a seemingly effortless manner?  And I'm going to tell you that if I knew the answer to that, I'd be flying around with them!

   It does seem obvious that cultures who have been around a while longer than us have found that supply of energy in the void.  To move the distances they move at the speed they do and in the time frame they do would indicate that there is more to our universe than we can yet perceive.  It is not likely that they move through our three dimensional plane using rocket propulsion.  That is obsolete for anything beyond the moon and a tremendous waste of good energy.

   We are so young as a technological civilization that the odds of someone else being at the same place we are in development is pretty slim.  Now that we finally got off the ground, so to speak, we should move right along over the next few years.  Once we discover how to pull back the veil and move across the vast blackness to other stars, we will have the most exciting times of human history.

   Might have a difficult time expressing this thought so bear with me for a couple of paragraphs.  If you know anything about computers, you know that data is scattered all over the hard drive.  There is a lot of wasted space on a drive and you use a drive defragmenter to organize the drive space.  If you want to go from "a" to "b" on a drive you don't start at the beginning and work all the way out on all platters in sequence to get there.  You go to "b" without passing all the wrong or empty data space along the way.  It isn't instantaneous but it is 1,000s of times faster than looking for "b" in every spot.

   Find a way to compact all of the empty space so instead of stars and planets looking like they are scattered miles apart from each other, it looks like one big rock pile.  You move between the "rocks" without wasting the time and energy on empty space.  Again, not instantaneous but much quicker.  It would cut travel time to a livable time period.  And of course, cut expended energy.  Now we need to get away from brute forcing rockets off the ground.  I suspect there is a project going on now that will free us from the ties of gravity.  If you get in your ship and suspend gravity, speed would be instant and enormous.

   While I would be happy at this point in my life to stand at the pyramids on Mars looking at the "Help Wanted" sign at the Cydonia Mickey Ds, it would be nice to find out the secrets of moving through enormous distances in the blink of an eye.

   Current scientists say that we're not going to leave our neighborhood because of this or because of that.  Of all the bright men who have spoken on the subject, I don't believe you will remember hearing any of them saying we're going to find a way in the next hundred years.  That's because the mindset of the establishment is that it can't be done.

   In the time frame of the universe we are newcomers.  In the time frame of the Earth we are newcomers.  For the million or so years that we have been around before the outsiders arrived to push us forward genetically (that's another paper) we walked around saying that no one would get on the water for any distance as there was nothing there but the end of the Earth. 

   I can remember when the "older" generation thought going to the moon was not going to happen before 2000. (That dates me a little)  Watch the sci-fi movies of the 1950s.  Did you see live TV in the fantasy?  Did you see the captain and crew of the spaceships using personal computers?  Cell phones?   Pagers?  Even the writers of the 1950s (always with exceptions to the really good ones) could not see 20 years ahead.

   In the early days of experiments with trains, some of the leading scientists stated as fact that man couldn't withstand speeds of over 30 mph!  We wouldn't need automobiles either.  What purpose would they have?  Of course airplanes wouldn't fly, and if they did, they would only be useful for demonstrations.   And I might be misstating this but Mr. Farnsworth, one of the pioneers of TV could find no useful purpose of television outside of a few business users.

   There are thousands of relatively recent misstatements about the future of technology floating around, some from the leading people in the field such as a president of IBM saying as he could only see the need for 4 or 5 computers in the world.   We could go on for a long time with this train of thought but you have probably heard most of it before.  Let's just go with the fact that if you're here, you probably believe like we do that the future is closer than most people think and someone, somewhere, is working on something that is going to revolutionize travel.  Sooner than you think.

Me?  I want to go along for the ride!
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Pete Jefferson

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