Fermi Paradox or 'Where are they?'

[TheEndIsNigh]

skeptcal:

You're not by any chance trying to have it both ways are you

Not many hydrogen molecules for me to run into yet enough to slow the ship with the scoop

 

[Urien]

We had a super-ion drive on our old Datsun when I was a kid. My dad dug it up from the potato patch. We found it next to the wax sealed Roman cylinders.

Simultaneously we proved there was no Fermi paradox and (from the contents of the cylinders) that the Romans reached America.

The potatoes also made good chips.

 

[skeptical]

To the End
Sure - lots of Hydrogen atoms to run into. However, even at 0.1 c, their mass is so tiny as to make the impact negligible. However, with a wide spanning ramscoop field, there may be useful braking???