User blog comment:PitaKang/Funday Monday 3: What would an interstellar civilization look like?/@comment-7431988-20130501232227/@comment-3218619-20130501234837

No, because at you approach the speed of light, time dilates inside the ship. Outside, time still passes as normal. So a ship at 99.9999% of the speed of light may travel 5 days in in-ship time, but five years may have passed outside.