Edit: A bunch of yall don’t seem to grasp the concept of a theoretical question
Yes.
Why not extend our environmental destruction into the farthest reaches of the universe? The heat death of the universe will be humanity extracting every last bit of energy from it to sell ads for the most trivial bullshit imaginable.
I love the idea of our expansion being dependant on destroying our own home planet.
I’d nuke all of you in a second to get to travel the stars. Maybe carve “Later, bitches!” Into siberia with my motherfucking space lasers.
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Humanity does though.
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As part of the universe I can say this with conviction; you are incorrect.
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That’s just like… your opinion, man.
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You can’t know that for a fact, you are not the whole, nor an adequate representation of it. None of us are.
I like the way you think.
I don’t think a civilization which would destroy their home with the single-minded goal of spreading throughout the universe in the blink of an eye should be allowed to spread beyond their local star system at all. Maybe re-evaluate after giving them a few centuries to mature.
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Considering it’s the only known one to have life on it…
Yes… that’s actually quite a bit of intrinsic value that may not exist on any other planet.
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We just really like this one.
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Brontaroc will feast on that passenger list.
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FTL in general and FTL that can evacuate entire planets worth of even a single species are very, very different scales of technology.
Where would we go? We don’t know of any other planets that we could easily live on.
Kepler-452b for starters but with FTL travel we could probably find quite a few more
Unless FTL travel is significantly faster than light, it’s usefulness would be limited. Kepler-452 is located about 1,800 light-years from Earth, which means it would take light 1,800 years to travel that distance. Even if our theoritical FTL travel was twice as fast as light, it would still take us 900 years to get there…
Once we get there, it is still unlikely that the planet would be habitable for humans. Quoting Wikipedia:
However, it is unknown if it is entirely habitable, as it is receiving slightly more energy than Earth and could be subjected to a runaway greenhouse effect.
There are closer exoplanets (closest one we know about is Proxima Centauri b), but even those are likely to be poorly suited for humans since we evolved to live specifically on Earth.
1800 years as observed from someone else watching the light travel. However, when travelling at c, you experience no time. From a photon’s point of view, no time passes between when it is emitted and when it is absorbed.
Earth isn’t travelling with you though so Earth would be toast long before you arrive.
It would depend on the flavour of FTL, if it means physically moving through space at supraluminal speeds (which would of course be impossible according to our current understanding), time would be flowing backwards.
Even traveling at the speed of light would be sufficient as it would mean getting to the destination the instant you achieved that speed.
But we do not even have to go as fast. Even doing constant 1G acceleration half the way with subsequent 1G deceleration for the other would enable us to reach the edge of the obervable universe withing the span of a human lifetime iirc.
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And in addition to the peculiarity of relativistic travel, if we were to utilise something like wormholes, the elapsed time would be equivalent to the time traveled across the newly formed wormhole (plus getting to it and from it).
Have you been playing Starfield? This is related to something in the game.
Where are we going to get the infinite energy required to move faster than light? ONSHORE WIND FARMS?!?!
Free wormhole with every ipad.
But harnessing the energy of artificial singularities is Romulan technology, we don’t do that in this sector!
No way.
Earth is the homeland, it’s the botanical gardens, the tribal reservation, it comes first.
Now, if you could do it on, say, mars, absolutely.
Yea, FTL travel implies that we have somewhere else to go.
Now while I assume there are plenty of other habitable planets out there, strictly speaking we don’t know that.
Habitable also doesn’t imply that we are compatible with the local ecosystem, just that we could bring the plants and animals we are compatible with, but for that they would still need to exist to take some.
If we’d ever discover FTL travel, the universe and causality would be broken. Earth might as well be a dragon at this point.
No. FTL travel does not mean we have the means to transport billions of people and the entire ecology around us including specific conditions of Earth’s orbit in terms of temperature, day, month and year length and many other parameters each of those plants, animals,… requires to another place within a few decades.
what for
Personally no. There’s so many other obstacles to overcome with populating other planets that getting there isn’t worth destroying the only one we have.
If we had others then maybe.
If we can build facilities to research it off-world, it’s likely to be a good idea. Though it may have to be left on the back burner for a while.
no lol, no amount of physics breaking scifi bs appealing to sfba nerds with too much vc money to care about external reality is worth pursuing
if this sounds weirdly specific, it’s because it is. context: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/
