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Space Travel vs Science Fiction: Why Intergalactic Colonies Will Never Happen

Why do people have such trouble separating fact from fiction? I've lost count of the amount of times I've read on various social media sites someone writing about us humans leaving our galaxy (Milky Way) and establishing colonies in Andromeda, one of our neighbouring galaxies. According to those that really know about this. Andromeda is 2.2 million light years away. Most of you understand what this means but for the few of you who don't it means even if we were able to travel at light speed (which is 100% impossible for solid matter) it would still take 2.2 million years to get to Andromeda! And that's just the edge of it. This doesn't take into account we would have to find a planet suitable for human habitation. There's no way we could discover this planet from Earth, it's too far away. We have not even discovered life elsewhere in our own galaxy of over 100 billion planets, which is only half the size of Andromeda.
How many generations of us would come and go before we travelled that far? Millions of earth years, no calculation needed. And how many of us would have to live on the spaceship for all that time? Let us hope all the women aboard are very fertile. And before I forget, who is going to design and build this COLOSSAL SPACESHIP, which would have to be the size of a small town and how long will it take to build? One last question on this issue. How would they get this monster off the ground? The propulsion team would certainly be challenged to their limit.
Many people use the argument that this will happen when we get more advanced. I don't think it matters how much we advance; we will never leave our galaxy much less even our solar system and much less again this planet. This is our home. We were never meant to travel elsewhere. Anyone saying yes we will has spent too much time listening to fantasists who have allowed their imaginations to run away or like so many people who think traveling great distances such as light years is as easy as getting on a bus!
Aliens are living amongst us! Really!? Whenever someone sees something in the sky they can't identify they always say it's a UFO. The term UFO has mutated over the decades. In the past it used to mean an Unidentified Flying Object, now it means beings from somewhere other than earth. Can I suggest anyone doing this is lazy. By that I mean they don't want to think what can this be, they'd rather go for the simple easy answer handed to them on a plate. While we're on this subject, why is it that Aliens with the intelligence to travel light years always seem to crash when they get to earth? We will never be able to travel in a ship with a crew at even a small fraction of light speed. Terms such as warp factor are purely for entertainment. Speaking of entertainment, I'm currently watching Star Trek the Next Generation on netflix. It's an excellent series and very easy to immerse oneself in.

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