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**E4qC1qQ5** · 08-23-2008, 10:53 PM

Whenever somebody comes up with some sort of FTL theory, the biggest sticking point is almost always the energy required. But think of the amount of energy we use today as compared to a person just a few hundred years ago.

I suspect these preposterous energy budgets might one day be considered very significent...but not at all impossible, or maybe even not all that extraordinary.

Edit: As a kid, I used to speculate that quasars were the disastrous funeral pyre of some unlucky super-civilization that found out the hard way why FTL was impossible. [yes]

08-23-2008, 10:53 PM	#18
E4qC1qQ5 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 495 Senior Member	Whenever somebody comes up with some sort of FTL theory, the biggest sticking point is almost always the energy required. But think of the amount of energy we use today as compared to a person just a few hundred years ago. I suspect these preposterous energy budgets might one day be considered very significent...but not at all impossible, or maybe even not all that extraordinary. Edit: As a kid, I used to speculate that quasars were the disastrous funeral pyre of some unlucky super-civilization that found out the hard way why FTL was impossible. [yes]
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