The UIMAGINABLE Reflexive-Dilemmas/Conflicts and Technical-Problems that stand in the way of humane-inter-stellar in-person space-travels - - - ARE BARELY HINTED AT by a listing of how long it takes EVERY electro-magnetic-signal of light or radio - - - traveling at approximately 200,000 miles per second = 720,000,000 miles per hour - - - to go between distant objects and God's Astronomically Tiny-and-Isolated Space-Ship-Earth: Between Earth an its Moon: takes about 0.000,000,03 years = about 1 second; Between Earth and its Star/SUN: takes about 0.000,015 years = about 480 seconds ~ 8 minutes ~ 8 x 60 seconds; Between Earth and Pluto: takes about 0.000,600 years = about 20,000 seconds ~ 5 hours ~ 5 x 60 x 60 seconds; Between Earth and the Nearest-Other-Star takes about 4. years = about 120,000,000 seconds ~ 4 years ~ 365 x 24 x 60 x 60 seconds; Between Earth and Our-Galactic-Center takes about 25,000. years = about 75,000,000,000 seconds ~ 25,000 x 300,000,000 seconds; Between Earth and the Andromeda Galaxy takes about 2,000,000. years = about 6,000,,000,000,000 seconds ~ 2,000,000 x 300,000,000 seconds; Between Earth and the Farthest Galaxy takes about 10,000,000,000. years = about 3,000,000,000,000,000 seconds ~ 10,000,000,000 x 300,000,000 seconds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What about how many men, and how many women, will be in such a space ship; and the natures of their relationships? What about how alienvative-conflicts - - - will be resolved during the trip? What about how many meals will have to be prepared for, before departure? What about the frequency of awkward communications with Space-Ship-Earth, during the years-long trips? What about sewage and garbage disposal during the years-long trips? What about health care and child care during the years-long trips? What about exercise options during the years-long trips? What about the required payload-mass, needed to carry a manageable size crew in the good health - - - that will required for success? What about the TWO years-long start-up-times, and the TWO years-long stopping-times; and the unimaginable amounts of fuel required for them? What about the maximum speed - - - during the years-long transit-out, and years-long transit-back; and about the years-long total-time - - - required for one round-trip? What about the ratio of mass-of-fuel to payload-mass needed at-departure - - - to START-UP; STOP-at-the-destination; START-BACK; and STOP-AGAIN - - - on Space-Ship-Earth? What about who will pay for the set-up-resources-costs to for the whole trip - - - payed-for-up-front - - - with no guarantee, and with an uncertain/low probability of any kind of success? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Be Graciously Together in Shalom' Sanctuaries! - - - In Open-and-Honest-Dialogues and Listening-Graciously to Each Other!