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I hope the future of interstellar travel is not these gigantic starships. It's like starting a project of building a gigantic Zeppelin in 1900 in order to get a

by viach 7y ago

I hope the future of interstellar travel is not these gigantic starships. It's like starting a project of building a gigantic Zeppelin in 1900 in order to get able to get to moon in 100 years. Teleportation seems more convinient to me and much less financially and socially devastating.

naravara 7y ago
>Teleportation seems more convinient to me and much less financially and socially devastating. Sure, but there is that pesky problem where the solutions need to be theoretically possible.
- viach 7y ago
  Both teleportation and Death Star are impossible with current technology, but the folks anyway are building the Death Star?
  - naravara 7y ago
    a.) Who is building a Death Star? b.) Death Star isn't theoretically impossible. We know you just need to direct a massive amount of energy at a planet to blow it up, the only question is figuring out how to get that kind of energy. Teleportation though, we literally have no idea how it would work or what it even means.
    - m4rtink 7y ago
      Engeneration is an interesting very high tech "teleportation" alternative: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3d78dc77e6f https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3d78dc77e6f You basically send your digitized DNA & personality copy to the target (needs to have reasonably high tech infrastructure already in place), where a blank body is grown & "flashed" by your personality. And voila, you are now walking the surface of another world couple light years away from your destination. (And you likely also now effectively exist at least twice, but oh well.) There are serious ethical and security issues with this technique, but it might still be useful none the less. :)
      - zentiggr 7y ago
        Altered Carbon, gotcha. "... a couple light years away from your transmitter"?
      - grotsnot 7y ago
        >And voila, you are now walking the surface of another world couple light years away from your destination No I'm not, my clone is. My consciousness is right where it started, making this an extremely limited form of "travel"
  - m4rtink 7y ago
    Let me introduce you to the Nicol-Dyson Beams: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fe49fe47202 https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fe49fe47202 This actually fits nicely with the name "Death Star", as you take all the energy or a star (via an orbiting Dyson swarm) and turn it into a concentrated beam of death.
  - popctrl1 7y ago
    There's a lot more people with money willing to invest in a planet-destroying weapon than space exploration, unfortunately...

by viach 7y ago

naravara 7y ago

>Teleportation seems more convinient to me and much less financially and socially devastating. Sure, but there is that pesky problem where the solutions need to be theoretically possible.

viach 7y ago
Both teleportation and Death Star are impossible with current technology, but the folks anyway are building the Death Star?
- naravara 7y ago
  a.) Who is building a Death Star? b.) Death Star isn't theoretically impossible. We know you just need to direct a massive amount of energy at a planet to blow it up, the only question is figuring out how to get that kind of energy. Teleportation though, we literally have no idea how it would work or what it even means.
  - m4rtink 7y ago
    Engeneration is an interesting very high tech "teleportation" alternative: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3d78dc77e6f https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3d78dc77e6f You basically send your digitized DNA & personality copy to the target (needs to have reasonably high tech infrastructure already in place), where a blank body is grown & "flashed" by your personality. And voila, you are now walking the surface of another world couple light years away from your destination. (And you likely also now effectively exist at least twice, but oh well.) There are serious ethical and security issues with this technique, but it might still be useful none the less. :)
    - zentiggr 7y ago
      Altered Carbon, gotcha. "... a couple light years away from your transmitter"?
    - grotsnot 7y ago
      >And voila, you are now walking the surface of another world couple light years away from your destination No I'm not, my clone is. My consciousness is right where it started, making this an extremely limited form of "travel"
- m4rtink 7y ago
  Let me introduce you to the Nicol-Dyson Beams: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fe49fe47202 https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fe49fe47202 This actually fits nicely with the name "Death Star", as you take all the energy or a star (via an orbiting Dyson swarm) and turn it into a concentrated beam of death.
- popctrl1 7y ago
  There's a lot more people with money willing to invest in a planet-destroying weapon than space exploration, unfortunately...