Do you think we will achieve a practical alcubierre drive or some other way of effective space travel in the next 100 year or so?
Do you think we will achieve a practical alcubierre drive or some other way of effective space travel in the next 100...
Ethan Thompson
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Ayden Wood
No. The Alcubierre Drive is merely a means of kiking GR into letting you go FTL using exotic matter that hasn't even been observed, much less synthesized in the quantities required. Even if we could synthesize it, using it to generate a bubble with the sub-atomic precision required to get away with only using several kgs of mass energy worth would be an engineering feat that would take a hundred years on its own.
The Alcubierre drive is nothing more than a distant dream at this point in time.
Thomas Smith
we only need to create high density negative energy. once we can reverse entropy, it should be no problem.
Bentley Phillips
If it were possible, then it would have been built by aliens already and used to colonise the galaxy. Therefore, it's probably not possible.
Cameron Sanders
That's considering that intelligent life even exists, let alone was able to find earth. Given the fact that radio waves would take millions of years to reach other star systems, the odds of aliens finding earth are slim even with advance space travel.
Gavin Fisher
Even if there are a million sentient and FTL advanced civilisation out there (Which I think is a very generous number), the chance of two even being in the same GALACTIC CLUSTER is remote verging on non-existent. Not to mention this galaxy could have been colonised and ruled billions of years ago and not even dust would be left of most of it.
Parker Nguyen
>if farmers existed they would have already found that one needle molecule in the million-mile wide haystack
that being said alcuberry is scifi popsci bs
Chase Roberts
What the others said, and also assuming that humans aren't the first ever technologically advanced species, somebody has to be first
Brayden Murphy
No its totally feasible. Simply creating the matter and engineering required to utilise it is beyond what we can currently do. But who knows in the future?
Hudson Sanchez
We are probably not the first in the universe. Statistics prove it. Right now, what everyone said is acceptable IF we assume FTL isn't possible. But if it is possible, then it only takes one species to use it and the whole galaxy is colonised within a thousand years, plus other galaxies. I myself believe in the rare intelligence hypothesis, but when you throw in FTL, the fermi paradox just becomes absolute crazy. That we wouldn't see a single hint of aliens by now, not one scrap of evidence means FTL has to be impossible.