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There was an article I saw about how long it would take the fastest spacecraft built with "non-speculative" physics - phenomena that has actually been observed
by kristopolous 1y ago
There was an article I saw about how long it would take the fastest spacecraft built with "non-speculative" physics - phenomena that has actually been observed in labs or in nature, ignoring any manufacturing and budget infeasibility (as in no handwaving sci-fi) and we're still talking like an entire lifetime to the next star.
In a way we're kind of still like an ancient village who can only travel by boats made of reeds
- jodrellblank 1y agoMight be Charles Stross’s blog post The High Frontier: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high-frontier-redux.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high...
- runarberg 1y agoI think this is the solution to the Fermi paradox, that space is simply too big for civilizations across the galaxy too discover each other, let alone interact with each other. Further more I don't think technologically advanced civilizations will be wasting their time and resources in colonizing new works, space is simply too big for that. And that they would conduct their explorations with telescopes, not probes, space is simply too big for probes.