Maybe in 10 million yrs this civilization will have developed the highly sophisticated complex process by which the strong/weak nuclear, electromagnetic, & gravitational forces can be altered or manipulated. It will require millions of yrs to develope a 'hole' complete working knowledge of the forces at work around us & thruout the universe, and while this is presently being thoroughly handled by our very advanced caretakers (bless their hearts.... you know, if they had one) that are currently operating up in the Space above and/or thruout the star system, we most likely have the right to live-on and continue progress well into the future (I mean, why wouldn't we.... right?) Someday tho, in the distant future, we (as in advanced nonhumans) too will possess the highly technical ability that will enable us (as in advanced nonhumans) to partake in the *real* business of creating worlds by which life can florish once again (I miss it already).
So, I think it's of relative importance to make a checklist of the things that will need to be addressed in order to build the One & Only System or Means of Technology that highly advanced civilizations are currently using to not only travel the vastness of innerstellar space but also to exist In Space among the Stars/Worlds, and/or to build tend, & nuture them (waaaa!) The capacity in which these highly evolved/developed civilizations are operating in is undoubtedly so very complex that we could only be frightened, confused, mystified, or, persue it in the only way we can. This *other* (ungodly) quintessential technology that took countless millions of years to fully R&D or *perfect* as to the highly exact specificity of materials and their properties, and the instantaneous interactions with the one & only process with a highly developed powerful energy/power-source, that is applied as efficiently and compatably and/or directly as possible, to generate an altogether different new form continuous dependable propulsion, and controll it with 'mere' thought, to perform "out of these worlds" maneuvers and/or obtain speeds that leave it all behind, and *All* w/o expending or depleting any energy. IOW, a Perfected Independent "State" of Light Energy/Propulsion, along with a whole complete extremely advanced intelligence process that has no equal. (even tho, they likely number in the gazillions, thruout the universe). The main driving force behind the Ultimate Vehicle will depend on an SRC (spining rotor center) which might consist of an overall weight of around 39-lbs. 1/6'th of the overall total circumference of this SRC would consist of a weight of 19-lbs, & consist of EAFP (electromagnetic attraction-force properties). To the exact oppposite of this EAFP 1/6'th in the SRC is the NP (no properties) 1/6'th, which consists of a weight of 20-lbs. So, a 1-lb imbalance exists in the 2-halves of the SRC, of which generates 4 - 5 thousand lbs of Centrifugal-force, spinning at a rate of 1,000 revs per sec. If enough powerful efficient steps are implemented into the finished vehicle/craft, so as to produce a TPF (total pulling force) at least twice it's overall weight, then it should be able to lift-up slowly vertically and/or accelerate at a degree of some angle at a fairly good rate. If a craft's overall weight was 6,000-lbs, and a TPF of 5-X's that was generated, then it should be able to accelerate at roughly 100 Mphs per sec , and/or exert about 25 to 50 G's or so. In less than a 1/2 minute or so this Ulitmate Immaculate Dream Machine would enter space, and then continue to accelerate until it reached (as an example) the halfway point to the moon. Then, the RTOS (rapid timing order sequence), would need to be reversed so as to redirect the TPF in the opposite direction, for deceleration. A test run to the moon and back, would take little more than an hour or two, but depends on some type of newly developed technology to enable rapidly changing distances to be coordinated accordingly, or with extreme accuracy. Now, as for the subject of stars.... they're light years ahead, and, there's One & Only One way to get there, in the absolute. If we wanted to, we could *actually* persue this system right here & now, because the way I see it is "if " we don't, they why are we here? We are here to *form a more perfect union* but unfortunately, that means eliminating "us" (or what we're made of, rather) in the process. http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr121/comte.html On the subject of stars, all investigations which are not ultimately reducible to simple visual observations are ... necessarily denied to us. While we can conceive of the possibility of determining their shapes, their sizes, and their motions, we shall never be able by any means to study their chemical composition or their mineralogical structure ... Our knowledge concerning their gaseous envelopes is necessarily limited to their existence, size ... and refractive power, we shall not at all be able to determine their chemical composition or even their density... I regard any notion concerning the true mean temperature of the various stars as forever denied to us. -- August Comte,1835 (before the advent of spectroscopy) harry</HTML>