[ExI] is a FTL drive a dream without any physics to back it up?

[Stefano Vaj]

On 14 December 2011 02:19, Joseph Bloch <seculartranshumanist at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would agree about the generation ship comment ("tomorrow" being an
> obvious rhetorical flourish). It's certainly possible that such a
> thing could probably be done in a reasonable amount of time, say 10-20
> years (less if there were some imminent global catastrophe), if there
> were a global consensus to do so and a realistic destination.
>

Let us say that we could start building it (or building what is necessary
to build it) tomorrow. The real requirement would be a massive reallocation
of our current civilisational priorities.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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