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To: allendale
The Alcubierre drive has been posited as a way to travel faster than light but it requires negative energy which hasn't been discovered yet and may not be physically possible.

Wormholes are theoretically possible, but I believe they also require negative energy and they are so sensitive that actually putting something through it could cause it to collapse killing anyone who tried to use it.

Generation ships are a possibility, but either the ship is relatively small and you have to worry about the psychological issues of housing a band of people in tiny quarters for centuries, or else you have a ship that is so big that there's really no reason to send it anywhere. Just have it float in space and have the people stay and reproduce for eternity.

There's a guy named Isaac Arthur who has a YouTube channel where he discusses a myriad of futuristic issues with a healthy amount of scientific rigor. He is quite hopeful, but not mystical in his thoughts regarding space travel.

22 posted on 12/11/2020 11:57:29 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Thanks. Going to check out that guy’s channel.


24 posted on 12/12/2020 12:24:42 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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