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by estimator7292 234 days ago
That's our best guess anyway. My bet is that superluminal travel will be possible once we resolve quantum gravity and break all of Einstein's rules.

At least that's what I tell myself. Hard to appreciate the majesty of the universe if we're forever locked into a single star system.
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TrainedMonkey 234 days ago
It would be really cool if that was true, but I would estimate the odds of quantum gravity enabling superluminal travel or comms as low. Occam's razor and all that.
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RajT88 234 days ago
None of this is falsifiable. It requires understandings of physics we don't have, and we have no way of knowing which hare-brained theories today are correct and useful in the future.

That goes as well for how aliens light-years away can detect nuclear explosions and show up within days to check it out.

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itsanaccount 234 days ago
"they" dont detect it light years away. from what has been published in the public domain, like in the congressional hearings, there are machines that have been here possibly a very long time. think at least 500 years. theres no indication the "they" behind those machines have ever made contact, or are on this planet, or are even still in existence. but there is something mechanical here that was not made by us.

as far as I know, the very few publicly identified records of speeds we have suggest a really big power source and the probable manipulation of fields we cannot yet (mass/gravity), but nothing breaking the speed of light.

so many people make leaps beyond the evidence we have and then declare them not plausible.

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RajT88 234 days ago
Having read what's in the public domain from the hearings, I'm having trouble squaring these two things:

> there are machines that have been here possibly a very long time. think at least 500 years. theres no indication the "they" behind those machines have ever made contact, or are on this planet, or are even still in existence. but there is something mechanical here that was not made by us.

> so many people make leaps beyond the evidence we have and then declare them not plausible.

Why isn't the first one exactly what you're complaining about in the second statement? Have I missed something?

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cryptonector 234 days ago
All the UFO talk is a distraction. You're welcome.
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