Reply #10: reality tests

[Prometheuspan]

in reality, the best chance we have for realistic drives to take us to other solar systems are nuclear powered ram scoop drive systems using magnetic fields and sucking energy down a hollow tube.

Black holes are too hard too handle, have their own mass to overcome, and then on top of that their own problems with inertia.
How do you hold a black hole still relevant to the ship? For instance.

We need to get out of science fiction, and quit with these exotic science fiction drives. We can build ramscoop systems with the technology we have right now that would get us to the nearest stars in hundred year time scales.

As long as we keep putting it off for fantastic and probably impossible sci fi drive systems, we won't ever do it.

But never mind other solar systems, there are trillions of colonizable objects inside of our own solar system, and that is where we should be putting our minds and eyes and thoughts and dreams and hopes and visualizations.