It Aint Never Going to Happen (Except in SF)

A reader writes: 

"And I think eventually we'll learn to harness gravity, once we understand what the hell it actually is, and then this pesky Einstienein relativistic-light-barrier will fall soon after that."

My comment: 

Ain't going to happen. Apples did not start falling up when Newton refined Aristotle's physics, and time did not start running backward when Einstein refined Newton. No advance refutes the previous evidence--it only reinterprets it. Faster than light drive is as likely as a ri...