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Originally posted by Ziroc:
Travel in space is simple if you can FOLD space and time. It IS possible, we just don't know how yet. The Aussies just TELEPORTED a laserbeam last week, you think in 1950 that would have been possible? 
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I havent heard much about this experiment, but a couple years back someone else (Welsh i heard, but i dunno) moved a single photon at 4C. (For the trekkies thats about warp 2, unless theyve recalibrated the scale again [img]smile.gif[/img] )
As I recall it required somewhat massive equiment - and this is the killer - at
both ends of the experiment.
Even if you could scale it up to move a vessel at say 1MC (At that speed you cross the galaxy in about 1 month), and build one transporter, youd still need a slower-than-light ship to build the other end. Unless you can contact another race at the other end and send them plans, but even then that message cant move >1C.
It just dosent look like faster-than-light travel is a practical proposition.