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			<title><![CDATA[Four Reasons Not to Give Up on Interstellar Travel]]></title>
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				<span class="customObject framed item_0"><a href="index.php?op=showcustomobject&postId=5040272&item=0" rel="lyteframe" rev="width: 75px; height: 102px;" class="noHrefOverride">Click to view</a></span>According to the scientists who attended this year's Joint Propulsion Conference in Hartford, Connecticut, humans may never be able to achieve interstellar travel. Aerospace experts from NASA to MIT claim that finding the amount of energy and time we'd need to cross the huge distances involved is out of the realm of possibility. In a recent article, <i>Wired Magazine</i>'s Robert Lemos suggested that the JPC's frustrating findings meant humans would never reach the stars. But don't add "space adventure" to your <a href="http://io9.com/5036316/what-are-the-unlikeliest-futures-for-the-human-species">list of unlikely futures for the human species</a> just yet &mdash; here are four reasons why.				<a href="http://io9.com/5040272/four-reasons-not-to-give-up-on-interstellar-travel" title="Click here to read more about Four Reasons Not to Give Up on Interstellar Travel">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<category><![CDATA[Colonizing space]]></category>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nivair H. Gabriel]]></dc:creator>
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