Re: Fermi's Paradox and FTL drives

Gene Ward Smith wrote:
> Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>     No, you were asking how to relate some FTL drive that 
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> you seemed to 
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>>have invented out of your head, which had some incredibly 
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> high top 
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>>speed, to the Fermi Paradox. All of the FTL drives I've 
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> seen proposed 
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>>as vaguely handwavily possible by any form of modern 
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> physics have had 
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>>strict limits on their speed -- either in the actual speed 
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> of 
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>>transfer, or in the speed to arrange the connection. 
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> What are these speed-limited systems? Setting up the 
> connection makes sense as a speed limit, but what else does?

	Go ask the physicists. Alcubierre, was that one?

	The obvious answers are a drive that alters properties of spacetime 
so that your effective distance is shorter, but not infinitely 
shorter, based perhaps on how much power you can put into your 
spacewarp trick.

	And yes, I consider that plausible. Don't like it? Too bad.


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