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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.
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If we could MELT it--atmosphere! Greenhouse effects. We gotta stop thinking from OUR point of view (i.e. in HUMAN terms) and also stop thinking WE are the 'center' of the Universe. That idea is too silly! 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? There is SO much we have yet to see, and I for one wish I had an Elves lifespan to see it. PS: We just NEARLY got hit by a Asteroid the size of a football field (it passed within 75,0000 MILES of earth)--that is SO close, you don't even know... (Closer than the MOON). and if it hit Earth, it would have exploded in the air to a magnitude equal to a 10 Megaton Nuke. scary huh! [/QUOTE]I know what you mean Z. Imagination is a great thing. Sometimes dreams and wild theories pan out into realities, but they usually don't. The human point is THE ONLY point we know right now, and we havn't even got that one totally figured out yet. I just see how truly fragile life is. The equivalent of a solar sneeze could wipe everything out and there's damn little we could ever do about it. The chances of two planets generating the rare miracle of life, evolving, and surviving long enough to generate a technology we don't even have reason to believe is possible and to have it all happen in the same heartbeat of the universe is a long shot. That given, we would still have to discover the proverbial needle in the haystack! See what I mean? [ 06-21-2002, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: Sir Kenyth ]
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It is impossible to know what it is that you do not know, untill someone points it out to you.[/QUOTE]The problem with humans Magik is that our knowledge increases are exponential, not incremental. Back then science was a lot simpler and very few people found a necessity for it. Our potential was well ahead of our progress. Just living day to day in your 40-50 year life span was enough trouble for most, and schooling was seen as a waste of valuable work time. Now we live longer and have more time to learn, but the amount we have to learn is so much greater! What your average Joe with a moderate intellectual hunger knows today would have ranked as an elite education back in the day. When do we reach a saturation point? When does our progress catch up with our potential? When will we simply not live long enough or have the capacity to effectively absorb the prerequisite knowledge and skills to even make any advances? I wonder how we will contend with this. So far, specialization by science/engineering professionals has helped. Even today you can't have too broad of a knowledge and remain cutting edge.
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