Lightspeed travel would be horrible unless all the relativistic problems can be ironed out. Even then the travel times to all but the nearest stars would be prohibitive. Don't get me wrong, I'm completely on board with opening up the final frontier. What we need is some way to circumvent the light barrier - just imagine a news report showing virtually real-time footage from the first interstellar probe.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
