"I don’t care about scales of space" means "I don't care about the science."

Humans had known about rockets for a thousand years before we finally went to the moon.

You will note that for the last 40 years, men roving around on the moon is back to fantasy again.

While you're wishing for some magical FTL drive, whose mechanism I note you don't explain, why not wish for a magical unicorn to take you to the stars? It's more colorful, and just as scientific.