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Since its beginning it has always seemed that science fiction led the way in technological thought and science itself has produced real results from those fantasies. No more is this evident than in how we travel, modern comforts like electricity and how we communicate. What was science fiction decades ago or even a century ago is now mundane reality and there's no reason think that this won't be the case with each passing frontier we discover and cross over. When looking at space I'm sure that the ancients never dreamed that we could fly among the stars, walk on the moon or send probes to Mars and the outer planets for study. But we do these things today. It is very possible that within 50 years humans will do even more - perhaps exploring the solar system and setting up space stations at various points in the solar system. What will we do a century from now? Well, a century ago people thought it inconceivable that people might fly, yet airplne travel is a reality today. Even in the early 19th century fantastic things like time travel were being written about and it still is today. A century from now we may be able to travel vast distances through space by using our ever increasing knowledge of science. All of it fueled by imagination and thinking outside of the box. After all, science and imagination, and ingenuity is what enables us to do the things we take for granted today.

So if we were to travel the vast distances through space to discover other star systems or galaxies how would we get there? We are limited by the speed of light when it comes to the vast distances in space so we would have to think outside the box when it comes to transportation. Normal modes of transportation would take astronomical amounts of fuel and an extremely advanced ship of some sort. While fueling a ship would work for travel within the solar system it would not work when dealing with traveling outside of the galaxy or even outside of the solar system. Enter the science fiction idea of: wormholes. Wormholes would most likely have to be used. The possibility of their existance is real. What do I mean by this? Right now they are hypothetical, but the science behind the idea makes sense. A worm hole is a shortcut through the fabric of space/time. It has a throat that connects to two mouths that exist in two different places and times in space. It is a cosmic tunnel that theoretically can connect you from one end of space and time to another. Think of the transport technology used

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