Originally Posted by jyaku (Post 176130)

Jarnin there is still hopes of a friendly encounter with a advanced alien species to teach us the secrets of FTL travel.

Originally Posted by Trademaster (Post 176177)

It's a cookbook!

Originally Posted by jyaku (Post 176130)

Jarnin there is still hopes of a friendly encounter with a advanced alien species to teach us the secrets of FTL travel.

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad (Post 176167)

lol
In a thousand years, we'll have magic, apparently.
From your link:
"A bubble macroscopically large enough to enclose a ship 200 meters across would require a total amount of exotic matter equal to 10 billion times the mass of the observable universe."
lol

Originally Posted by Rhalous (Post 176410)

Send self replicating autonomous robots to terraform it instead of humans. Technology grows exponentially, so it won't take that long to get the tech to do it. Waiting for the terraform to complete is the longest part.

Originally Posted by Rhalous (Post 176410)

Send self replicating autonomous robots to terraform it instead of humans. Technology grows exponentially, so it won't take that long to get the tech to do it. Waiting for the terraform to complete is the longest part.

Originally Posted by Jarnin (Post 176210)

The odds of us actually meeting an advanced, intelligent alien species is pretty slim. Communicate with? Possibly, but meet? Probably not. Besides, if I were aliens I wouldn't give us FTL tech. We'd just fuck up the galaxy. Maybe in a couple hundred thousand years after our species has matured a bit.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.