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

[Stefano Vaj]

On 16 December 2011 11:57, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:21:26AM +0100, Stefano Vaj wrote:
>
> > OK. So it would not be a matter of subjective time, but a matter of
> energy
> > consumption (which would not apply to, say, a Bussard propulsor or any
>
> No, it's about mass. Relativistic travel is energetically
> expensive, so you want to limit the payload size.
>

That's clear. And energy being mass, you may want to bring along as little
of it as possible...

You're not going to send the seeds. Something that has a need will
> send the seeds. You will contribute to that something with the needs
> will come into being.
>
> It will be definitely not human, so no human motivations apply.
> (Apart from making babies, that is).
>

Certainly I will and do contribute :-), but we were discussing here of what
we could in principle do ourselves...

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Stefano Vaj
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