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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, you are, of course, welcome to disagree with me. This, however, is somewhat erroneous - [b]One can't believe because there is no basis whatsoever for believing that anything can move faster than light.[/b] Not exactly true - the speed of light is not as constant as one would believe. It tends to depend on the medium that it travels through. So change the medium, and who knows what the real speed of light truly is? What happens if we leave the defines of this Physical Universe for a moment? What is the speed of light in a wormhole, or in a black hole? Also, we have already been able to teleport things - so in essence, they were moved faster than the speed of light from one point to another. Also, as one knows, the shortest distance is a straight line between two points. When there are ways to make the way "shorter", well, then one can get around the speed of light if there is a shorter distance to travel to get from point A to point B (otherwise normally known as "warping space"). You really do need to keep in mind that Science as a Human Tool is very, very young. Although one might be tempted to think that we know alot about the Physical Universe, the opposite is true - we know very little. [quote]A fleet of robotic reconnaissance ships sent in all directions sounds much more likely. Even then it would take thousands of years for the reply to reach us. Still it sounds like something we would do in dire need.[/quote] Again, you are assuming that everything is going to be dictated by your limit - the speed of light. Give the Human Race a bit more credit here, and expand your mind. I sincerely doubt that sending out a fleet of robotic recon ships in all directions limited by the speed of light would be smart - it is enough to perhaps explore the Solar System, but not interstellar space. I can imagine that such a fleet is created, sent out, only to be rapidly overtaken and outdistanced by the advances in propulsion/drives in the next couple hundred years! :D [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/397/]WebShaman[/url] \| [i]The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles[/i] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/925]WebShaman[/url] on 04-24-2008 09:47)[/small] Loading...
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