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Originally Posted by MargaretR

When your concept of travel is limited by boundaries of time, distance and velocity you neccessarily conclude that. There may well be other ways not yet known to our primitive minds.

Recall the time of the invention of the steam passenger train, when it was commonly thought that it was impossible for the human body to withstand speeds above 60mph.

The film Contact based on book by Carl Sagan I think is making the point that space travel may be more to do with the "mind" than actually flying through space physically. That was what Carl Sagan thought?