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IANAP but even if FTL travel is possible wouldn't it require a lot of energy? That seems way more inefficient than having life forms whose state can be digitize
by jackcosgrove 4y ago
IANAP but even if FTL travel is possible wouldn't it require a lot of energy? That seems way more inefficient than having life forms whose state can be digitized and beamed through space to a receiver?
FTL travel may make sense for installing the initial receiver network, but after that's done you just digitize life and beam it through space, reassembling at the target, rather than transporting matter.
Just like we talk about carbon footprint now, in the future I think people will talk about free energy footprint, and how to minimize it. Transporting matter through space seems really inefficient.
- comboy 4y agoAnd what would you use to beam FTL? Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
- jackcosgrove 4y agoThe information would travel at the speed of light, sorry if I wasn't clear. I don't think FTL travel is possible, but more to my point it isn't desirable since it would use so much energy. Even traveling at 0.9 c would probably be cost prohibitive. This is why I think space travel will be the realm of information streams, not matter. The reconstructed lifeform would not be a clone. It would probably be housed within a body adapted for its environment. I'm not imagining somehow copying a human at the quantum level.