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Ole Rømer, portrait by Jacob Conin. 1700. The Danish astronomer who unintentionally measured the speed of light while observing Jupiter in 1676. Until then it was thought light moved to fast to be measured.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-speed-of-light/ Im personally looking forward to the JWT verification that the physical Universe is much bigger and older than we thought. I also think the physical Universe is fixed but don't expect Mr Webb to verify that theory. Lol.

Universe Today

New Calculations Show That an Interstellar Bussard Ramjet Drive Would Need a Magnetic Field Stretching 150 Million Kilometres - Universe Tod

A new analysis of the fabled Bussard Ramjet shows that the spacecraft would need an impossibly big magnetic field to achieve interstellar tr

The Bussard ramjet could only get to a fraction of the speed it would take for interstellar travel. I would also suggest missions with actual humans to be out of the question. In my humble opinion the future of space is in robotics.