Read the passage below.
5 Already outside our solar system, Voyager 1 is moving away from our sun at just over 17
kilometers per second (38,000 miles per hour). At this turtle speed, it would take thousands
of years to reach one of the sun's neighboring stars.
6 Today, using all the nuclear bombs in the world, we could build a starship that might reach
5 to 10 percent of light speed. It would cost a ton of money to build, but it could catch up to
Voyager 1 and leave it in the rearview mirror less than a month after launch. Still, it would
take decades to reach the nearest star. With more advanced technologies, we could maybe
get to 30, 50, or 75 percent of light speed. But special relativity says that we could never
reach 100 percent.
Which statement BEST expresses how David Warmflash in the article "The Warp Factor" implicitly
describes the central idea in paragraphs 5 and 6?
The author describes the time it will take for spaceships to reach the nearest star to explain why Nick
Sagan's message will never be heard.
The author builds an explanation of the limitations of a spaceship's speed as a transition to a description of
how warp speed theory works.
O The author contrasts various technologies that can increase a spacecraft's speed to indicate the likelihood of
reaching a nearby star in the future.
O The author includes unreasonable examples of how to increase a spacecraft's speed to emphasize the
unrealistic expense of such an endeavor.