Relativity
How it works and why no one
cares
Assume person A travels to point Y from
point X in the newly developed space ship R. R can travel at 70% the speed of
light. It will take A 114 years earth time to reach point y where only 3 years
will pass for A within the ship. Within 1 year after Ship R left, company O
designs a ship S which can now travel at 75% the speed of light. At this speed,
pilot B will reach point Y in only 57 years. Now had company N thought about
Company O, it would never have sent A in R to Y in the first place. So let's say
now that another year later company P designs ship J which will reach Y in 10
years. As this happens, company P will reach point Y about 46 years before
company O and 103 years before Company N by which time Company N will be little
more than a footnote in history and the pilot will be forced to flip hamburgers
for a living at a 100 year old colony founded by company Q who designed a faster
ship which arrived shortly after it left, right behind the other 30 million
people who were the last to leave and the first to arrive. Now as developers
realize this and see if they wait just a little longer for the technology, they
might get to point Y quicker and start a fast food franchise before the person
just before them.
The final effect of
Technologies rapid advancement is that it will soon become obsolete and Company
N will be forced to make stone tires for company O who was smart enough to burn
down all of it's offices in order to speed up their regression into the stone
age where they now own the largest fast food franchise on the planet. In turn
they've completed their goal of being the first to advance to a higher order in
space travel.