Semi-OT: We will go to Stars.

[Randallw]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
Ah, but the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides with the perfect answer to this problem. Let's see: there is nothing faster than light, save for bad news, whose speed is subject to completely different laws (*). Such are the words of wisdom contained in the Guide.

What do you build the bad news powered ships out of to stand the stress of travelling so fast?. I know, build it from the same material they use for little girls dolls. Since at the site of every plane crash there is a little girls doll miraculously unharmed the material must be the strongest known to man. .
But seriously. I read on a news site that Stephen Hawking has changed his mind about all matter being sucked into blackholes.
I found the following link
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996151
Perusing the link shows me that I don't exactly understand the point, but my own point is that if Stephen Hawking can admit he was wrong perhaps Einstein might have been wrong about the limit to the speed of light. I am no physicist so I can make no argument, merely point out the possibility of a mistake.