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

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 06:46:06PM -0700, Kelly Anderson wrote:

> If you send seeds that know their origin, and are designed to want to
> send back information, then it is indeed more satisfying than Voyager,
> which is definitely a one way communication with minimal chance of
> ever even being found, except by the future "us", in which case it
> will just get put back into the Smithsonian air and space museum...

What is the reason animals and plants have offspring?
They're definitely not doing it for their personal profit.

Why did the astrochicken cross the interstellar void?
To get to the other side.