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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

True, but we still have to try and understand the universe within the scientific framework we’ve built otherwise we’re just indulging in science fiction. We know things like the distances involved, the time it would take to travel those distances even at a high percentage of the speed of light, the amount of energy needed to move a specific mass, and so on.

Maybe there are ways around this for sufficiently advanced beings but maybe there is intelligent life within 100 light years of us that is listening to the first radio broadcasts with no way of getting here.

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SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes. My point is that the theoretical approach is

already sf inspired: cf. warp drives etc.

applying our limitations as universal is also a sf ‘plot twist’, as it’s highly unlikely that we understand enough to be conclusive

slow travel is just the ‘better canoe paddle’ approach… probably near impossible

relativistic speeds are unlikely effective not so much because of on-board problems but because human society is so volatile, as more than a common sf trope

and most importantly: separate scientific framework descriptions from dogma, as science is provisional and assumes a better proof is simply waiting for better research; speculation is inspiration and goal-setting

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