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Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:32PM (#17547086)
> you would just load up the your Alcubierre station wagon with a bunch of backup tapes

Tapes have mass. Unless we learn to suppress inertia, it would be easier to encase the message photons in an Alcubièrre field.

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Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade by tCfD on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:43PM (#17547137)
Not suppressing inertia is indeed a problem, unless the message the kind you intend to be understood primarily by virtue of its infinitely inverse ratio of complexity to fidelity.
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