Travelling at the speed of light?[Question]

[houseofcantor]

What about the idea of using space folding to instantaneously travel? Like the off mentioned hypothetical wormholes.

You need to create a region of intense negative energy for that.  It is not known how one would accomplish such a feat...

Unobtanium. 

[Alex K]

Or better yet, Antiunobtanium!

[Aoi Magi]

Destination star systems => A few thousand to millions of light years away
Travel time as light beam => A few thousand to millions of years

Result => Pointless wastage of time and resources

You're missing the zero in the equation. Projecting a consciousness (disregarding the whack for a second) results in a subjective time passage of zero seconds. It's one of the more "feasible" methods of potential colonization. 

As for wasting time and resources, I'd have to argue the "Gwynnite entropic conjecture" which states that such might be the whole purpose of intelligence. 

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I'd expand, however being my own religious nonsense doesn't make it less nonsense, at least not at present.

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Yep, the keyword being subjective. Something like a wormhole seems a lot more convenient and time efficient and safer, especially when dealing with those pesky asteroids.

[houseofcantor]

You're missing the zero in the equation. Projecting a consciousness (disregarding the whack for a second) results in a subjective time passage of zero seconds. It's one of the more "feasible" methods of potential colonization. 

As for wasting time and resources, I'd have to argue the "Gwynnite entropic conjecture" which states that such might be the whole purpose of intelligence. 

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I'd expand, however being my own religious nonsense doesn't make it less nonsense, at least not at present.

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Yep, the keyword being subjective. Something like a wormhole seems a lot more convenient and time efficient and safer, especially when dealing with those pesky asteroids.

I'm thinking we need the exotic matter for that bad boy too, though. :/

I like thinking, though; a good thread for it.

[Aoi Magi]

Yep, the keyword being subjective. Something like a wormhole seems a lot more convenient and time efficient and safer, especially when dealing with those pesky asteroids.

I'm thinking we need the exotic matter for that bad boy too, though. :/

I like thinking, though; a good thread for it.

Yeh but at least that one doesn't impose speed limits like stupid light does, plus it is efficient and cooler.

[Alex K]

I'm not sure though whether and how one would build a wormhole-how do you select the destination!

[houseofcantor]

I'm not sure though whether and how one would build a wormhole-how do you select the destination!

Spectrography and Von Neumann machines. Keep up, old dude.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

[houseofcantor]

Are we there yet?  Are we there yet?

Man, you should have went before you got in the cruiser, dood. How many times we gotta go over this? 

[Aoi Magi]

Are we there yet?  Are we there yet?

That's it!! We are NOT stopping for icecream.