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>>6681877
The big problem I see is that even if we could get close to the speed of light, our ship would probably just run into a rock and explode pretty much instantly.

Let me explain. We've found rocky debris(the oort cloud) going out to at least half the distance to our nearest neighbor.(proxma centauri) And that just happens to be as far as we can see. It stands to reason that there is probably rocky debris around proxima centauri to at least the same distance. We just haven't seen it because we don't have sufficiently good telescopes.

If there is rocky debris pretty much everywhere, we're not gonna get anywhere close to the speed of light.(even ignoring the massive energy required.) Because even a speck of dust would destroy any craft we could conceivably build.