Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro...
by GW150914 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:59PM
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Why would you bother taking a trip that involved leaving your entire species hundreds of thousands, even millions of years behind you? It would be energetically expensive, and the civilization that launched it couldn’t expect to care or remember by the time it arrived. That might work for a small group of pioneers willing to go into the blackness, but it’s not the basis for a galactic civilization.
Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro...
by tcgv on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:04PM
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Even though it May not seem logical, the point is that interstellar travel without FTL speed is feasible.
Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro...
by GW150914 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @12:20AM
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Its possible, but not at all feasible. It’s also not really practical and the nature of it undercuts the usual “where are all of the intelligent species colonizing the galaxy?” arguments which tend to crop up.
Why is that? Special relativity already demonstrates that space contraction at near light speed would allow interstellar travel at human scale duration, with the side effect of time dilation for moving observers.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox