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I always thought it to be funny if we would get faster than light travel in the future and other civilizations are just seeing dinosaurs roaming the earth the m
by k__ 3y ago
I always thought it to be funny if we would get faster than light travel in the future and other civilizations are just seeing dinosaurs roaming the earth the moment we visit them.
- 1024core 3y agoThat would be if they were 70M LY away from us. In order to see dinosaurs from that distance, they would need a telescope wider than our solar system.
- malfist 3y agoIf you can make a dyson sphere, a solar system sized telescope doesn't seem out of the question.
- bemmu 3y agoYes, once we're commanding autonomous little bots in space, capable of also autonomously creating their own factories, we can build anything on a whim as long as we can design it and have the energy and materials. (I may have played too much Factorio)
- Baeocystin 3y agoAll I want is logibots IRL, is that too much to ask
- awb 3y agoHarvesting that much material might be a challenge. I guess you’d also have to build it in interstellar space to avoid planets and asteroids.
- Projectiboga 3y agoThe Milkyway is 'only' 100 to 150,000 light years across, in total.
- redcobra762 3y agoAccording to our current understanding of telescopes, but if FTL is possible, then perhaps we missed something.
- poisonborz 3y agoIf FTL is possible, we didn't just missed something, but can throw all of our physics books on fire.
- calamari4065 3y agoI think at that point, you'd go find a really big black hole to use as a lens instead
- kilroy123 3y agoCouldn't you just use a large solar gravitational lensing telescope?
- lgkk 3y agoWhat would even be the point of existence anymore once FTL is figured out? Just curious. Seems like it would just remove any grandeur about the universe entirely.
- MattGaiser 3y agoIt wouldn’t go away. It would just mean we could go see it.
- api 3y agoDoes the fact that you can drive to a national park make it stop being beautiful?
- FrustratedMonky 3y ago"point of existence" To go see it. Why would the ability to visit other planets, and see them, suddenly negate the point of existence, since we can then go see it. Like there is only a point if things can only be imagined, and not actually seen. That would be like. "now that cars exists, and we can visit the Grand Canyon, suddenly there is no point of existence".
- AlexAndScripts 3y agoRemove any grandeur? On the contrary, it would be the beginning of a new era of appreciating its grandeur.
- calamari4065 3y agoThe universe is infinite. FTL just makes it slightly less infinite. FTL means we actually get to see the grandeur of the universe instead of hypothesizing mathematical models of it. Without FTL, we'll never leave this star system. The grandeur of the universe will be nothing but our imagination, instead of a real thing you can see with your own eyes.
- jonhohle 3y agoI was explaining to my kids yesterday that it took 33 years for Voyager to leave the solar system, the next closes star is 2,000x further than it’s already travelled. That would require infrastructure to support 100 generations of humans, 99 of which would be indentured by their ancestors to a life stuck inside a space-ark. And it would only require one of those generations to fail for the whole endeavor to fail. And there’s nothing there, it would take another 50 generations to get to what is hypothesized to be a habitable planet. Human existence doesn’t scale to inter-star system travel.