How do you cope knowing that FTL is impossible and that we're stuck in the solar system?
How do you cope knowing that FTL is impossible and that we're stuck in the solar system?
How do you cope knowing that FTL is impossible and that we're stuck in the solar system?
I don't care
Why would you have to cope? Are you disappointed you don't live in a Star Trekian society?
do you need the paper and the pen example?
We won't be stuck in the solar system because of technology. We 1000% WILL find a way to surpass C healthily (by warping spacetime most likely). Muh "stuck here" mentality is just FUD moronation. What you should actually be fearing is that we get filtered by politics/warfare/disease/economic collapse before we develop such technology.
Or losing our identity totally as we spread out to other star systems and galaxies because we didn't perfect our meme relay probes enough
>Or losing our identity totally as we spread out
It is definitely inevitable. It's not something to be feared. We will diverge evolutionary, culturally, intellectually. The greater glory is in seeding mankind throughout the stars.
>Invent artificial speed limit
>Invent another artificial theory to bypass such limit
Science is all gay and moronic and you speak like homosexuals
we don’t invent shit we just describe things
Why do you think F = ma? It just is
Even if we find a way to reach the speed of light it still isn't fast enough for deep space. We need to find a way to travel hundreds of times the speed of light to get anywhere worthwhile in a reasonable amount of time.
How simple is the navigation to the nearest galaxy? If you could get there in a year, straight line, where do you aim?
Well Andromeda is the nearest galaxy at 2.5 million lightyears away. So travelling at the speed of light it will still take 2.5 million years to get there.
That's the case for outside observers watching you, but at high enough speeds even below c, you might take the trip and only experience a week passing thanks to time dilation.
well, if I wanted to see the game between gay alien race 1 and gay alien race 2 in whatever gay little planet andromeda has, I can deal with 1 week of planning but I don't think they will wait 2.5 million years for me.
That would require 0.99997% of the speed of light and some way to stop at the other end.
Just hit the brakes.
>reasonable amount of time
There is nothing like reasonable. Generation ships are unavoidable. You will live in a can, you will eat the onions green. You and generations after you will never see the sky of your destination. Earth will be a faintly reminded, badly retold utopian fairy tail told to you by elders which had be born on that shitcan a century after the ship left the solar system.
In a way its fun, its like universe saying frick you, I'm beyond you. I'm happy looking at the stars knowing that they are pure and no fricking company slapped their logo on them, no rich fricker will build a villa there. For now.
>I'm happy looking at the stars knowing that they are pure and no fricking company slapped their logo on them, no rich fricker will build a villa there. For now.
socialists enjoy living in absolute poverty just to spite those who have more money than them
Even though FTL is impossible, you still could explore much of the galaxy, and even many other galaxies within your own lifetime, due to time dilation. The problem is: (1) you wouldn't be able to come back to the world as you know it (2) you'd require alien-tier engineering to harness massive amounts of energy from a small mass of fuel to accelerate near lightspeed. (3) If you touch anything it's game over
oh and when you travel at those speeds, background radiation gets blueshifted into extremely powerful X rays that will melt your rocket into nothing. So yeah, you'd also need alien-tier material for shielding.
I think Earth is fine. We evolved to live here, not out in space.
>We evolved to live here, not out in space.
If evolution is real how come we can't evolve to life in space?
You can. You have to be there first to trigger it.
Rather than based on facts, the suspicion that we may travel faster than light is just the God part of the brain acting up.
If it's determined the species can't survive, it will be destroyed by our own star, then it feels as if life was pointless. In general there's no infinite path a species can travel to keep itself alive, jumping from star to star is impossible because of their low density, and other stars have shit planets. Earth and our Intellect are separate miracles
what do you even need space travel for. it is just a bunch of the same shit going on forever
based caveman
Everybody talks about acceleration, nobody worries about deceleration. There's your real barrier.
this
anyone whos played elite dangerous knows this
Ever heard of parachutes?
just turn the ship 180° lol
I was sad until I did my research and realized space is fake and "science fiction" is just fantasy with lasers instead of magic
we can build dyson sphere
it allot of new property
There's no need to cope, because FTL travel is not only possible, but it's happening all the time. Every time you move your hand, you're travelling faster than light.
Humanity doesn't need to get out of here and rest of the universe seems pretty boring anyway.
Post-humanity eventually will need interstellar travel, but they won't need FTL for that. As they aren't limited by biological lifespans.
There are dozens of fairly large planetary bodies in the solar systems humans could settle on.
Your future will be an interplanetary power struggle like the Expanse and you will be happy.
>cryogenicaly frozen bodies are unable to be restored
>generation ships turn to anarchy within 1 generation
It's over.
I'm busy napping under the shade of a tree listening to the soothing bellows of my cattle while knowing my God loves me
>it doesn't matter if we discover FTL travel. Even if humans manage to achieve this level of technology and become the most powerful race in the universe, conquering every single galaxy, eventually the last star will die and there's nothing we can do about it
How do we cope with THIS? We might as well just give up now
>life isn't about consoooming
wow (You) must be so disappointed
the machines will be our successors
We are in a simulation experimenting on how to have individual sentient life live in harmony enroute to Andromeda.
create a new universe or find a portal to other universes
otherwise sudoku once the last star dies
I just don't give a frick
why should i care about scientific advancement if i cant get pussy?
you can create pussy
I fear the day we even get close to making a big object at least near speed of light. Imagine someone simply fricks up (like we humans always do) and a ship the size of a 8 floor high building hits Earth at near speed of light; pic related most likely.
>FTL is impossible
Proofs required. Muh general relativity is not a decisive proof.
it is you who needs to prove it skizo
I look up generation ships, cryogenics and teleportation
How do you cope knowing that
>fission is impossible and we are stuck with chemical combustion
>flying is impossible and we are stuck on the ground
>making fire without a lightning strike is impossible and we are stuck eating raw meat
A scientific community will always think they reached the apex of knowledge and a deep insight into anything that is further possible to know. In a thousand years people will think of us like the idiots that talked about the aether or phlogiston when all of particle physics and QED is revealed to be nothing but a crutch.
>ctrl + f + constant acceleration
>zero results
come on now
one can't move faster than light but you can abuse constant acceleration to get anywhere in the known universe within 40 years, subjective time
>exponential energy requirements
>millions of years to get interrupted somehow
who cares? wow I'm on mars and still trying to find a parking space at the mall... wow I'm sun bathing on a planet orbiting proxima centauri and thinking about what I'll eat for dinner... really worth it
How do you cope knowing the earth is flat and has a dome?
Cope with what? There's nothing beyond Earth. Learn to enjoy your life here