Originally Posted by dAvenue

I've got to get my nerd on here...

You're right, but consider that it slows down time only within the vehicle. In Hawkings theory of time travel, he uses the example of an extreme bullet train that circles the Earth near the speed of light. The train would need to circle the Earth 7 times a second for it to run at this speed. Time on board would slow down significantly while time on Earth remained the same.

If the train traveled for 100 years, the passengers on board would have lived for a mere week's time relative to the 100 years passed on Earth. They would have been catapulted 100 years into the future by speed alone.

That's facking crazy!