> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:30:45 GMT, aspqrz@pacific.net.au wrote:
>

>>Actually Al, we don't know that.
>>
>>It might prove to be the case that FTL travel is trivially easy ...
>>with 20:20 hindsight once you've spent lots of money and time looking
>>at all the (with 20:20 hindsight) deadends and ignoring the trivially
>>easy solution.

>
> One of my favorite SF stories ever (though I've forgotten the title or
> author) involved human beings conquering most of the galaxy after we
> were invaded by a civilization with roughly English Civil War weapons.
> It turned out there was an "obvious" FTL method that mankind had
> somehow missed that was usually found by civilizations when at the
> 17th century level of technology - since we...