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I suspect we would learn to USE a technology like wormholes before we could reliably CREATE wormholes. A mission like you suggest would require us to create pr

• mygo 8y ago
  Not sure who mentioned immediately launching a ship the day after landing, but I said sending out ships after colonizing, settling turf wars, advancing, etc. There’s no telling how advanced their ships or other tech would be at that point. How much would even 500 years do for space travel after they were already able to achieve such short-timespan intergalactic travel? I can’t fathom. Anyways, lots of ways to skin a cat. Making wormholes may be one way, but faster space ships, or controlling gravity, or teleportation, or some other fantastical exploit we haven’t even begun to imagine may be another.
• rurban 8y ago
  Wormholes are nice, but putting yourself through a subatomic mixer will not persuade anybody to try that. You can try it with a conventional meat grinder at home, if you like that idea, as in "Fargo".