In Space☆Dandy, it is explained that the warp drive on Dandy's ship doesn't actually move the ship at all.Like a lot of things in Bebop, it was never fully explained. They created subspace of some fashion where things went faster and ships could get stuck in if they didn't leave in time. Cowboy Bebop had the portal variety called Gates, which were apparently dangerous because something called the "Gate Incident" made the moon explode. The problem is that as far as present-day science is concerned, going faster than - or even just as fast as - the speed of light is, for all human intents and purposes, impossible. Thus, in order for the protagonists to be able to plausibly visit a new Planet of Hats every week, they need to travel through space at speeds faster than that of light. Other planetary systems are so far away from us that it takes even the fastest thing in the universe - light itself - years, decades, or millennia to reach them. Nowadays, we know that the rest of our solar system is almost certainly devoid of other life forms - so we've got to go to other stars.Īnd that's where the "space is honking big" part comes in. This has been an issue for writers since The '50s or so before then you could get away with having your aliens come from Neptune without totally losing the audience. Faster-Than-Light Travel is a staple of Space Opera that allows an "out" to the unfortunate fact that space is honking big, making it impossible (within physics as we understand it now) to get anywhere remotely interesting within the average lifetime of a civilization.
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