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Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing. Isaac Send a noteboard - 09/07/2012 06:47:43 AM
Even if we confirmed tomorrow morning that there were indeed aliens in that star system, it's unlikely that my life would change at all. No matter what we find, we can't get there, or even send a message, within five or six of my lifetimes. To those of us living today, humanity's most momentous discovery of all time would be little more than water-cooler chat.


Well heck, you never know, physics gets some great stuff done but so does medicine, biological immortality isn't exactly a pipe dream. One thing worth remembering though is hat while light lag makes dialogue impractical, it doesn't make observation impractical, we really do have a pretty short reception range right now, we could easily expand that and tune into some alien cable

I know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but sometimes I think NASA's budget should be entirely redirected into physics research, with the goal of developing FTL travel. Finding stuff is cool and all, but at the same time it doesn't do much good while we remain stuck in our solar system.


Oh, if we had any theories for doing FTL we'd dump money in it like crazy, gov't and private sector, we don't, and to be honest while I'd never say 'impossible' I really don't expect that to ever change. Right now I'd settle very happily for a functioning fusion reactor, that's the one that really opens windows up.
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