Thiel actually lampshades this himself: > Warp drive is in fact hard to take seriously because its basic physics are so far beyond the furthest reaches of our

Thiel actually lampshades this himself: > Warp drive is in fact hard to take seriously because its basic physics are so far beyond the furthest reaches of our knowledge as to debilitate would-be researchers—not to mention reasonable doubts about the friendliness of faraway foreign species. (Some of them, I assume, are good aliens.)