[fooqux]

>They should just have a page that says: "FTL is impossible, but that's fine, once you get used to the way things are."

No offense intended to you, but I feel this is a disastrously negative attitude to have. Except where morals dictate otherwise (which are outside the scope of science anyway) nothing is banned from exploration. Suggesting otherwise implies that we know all there is to know about a subject; to me, this is analogous to willful ignorance. Science is dedicated to removing ignorance, not enforcing it.

[logfromblammo]

I would amend that to "FTL is economically impossible", rather than an unqualified impossible. It may be allowed by physics, but if we have to effectively bankrupt a whole galaxy just to move quickly from one star to the next, humans simply won't ever do it.

As it is now, with our current level of understanding, the best way to move around in space is by throwing tiny things very fast in one direction, to make a big thing move in the opposite direction, then wait a few thousand years for that big thing to get somewhere.

Given that we sometimes have difficulty being alive after waiting a few thousand years, it is understandable that some people have a problem with this, and want to explore other options.

[crusso]

nothing is banned from exploration

Nothing is banned, per se... but there's just too much search space to sift through to not be smart about where you look.

[yazaddaruvala]

I don't know about you, but for me, some of the best things I've ever found were in places I shouldn't have been looking.