I don't know. Do you?

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Sound is faster. maybe

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You serious? Speed of sound = 340 m/s, Speed of light = 3.00 x 10^8 (300,000,000) m/s

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i said MAYBE

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I am slower than dirt. Does that count for anything?

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Warp drive.

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Errr, a jet?

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u dum

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Black holes.

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Monarchy. It is known.

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According to various space opera sci-fi stories/movies/etc in the next 1000 years of so humanity will have access to at least 2 ftl technologies - warp drives (able to propel an object at multiple times the speed of light) and space bending wormholes/portals (that are folding the space-time plane making an object appear in a different place instantly, thus getting it there faster than the light would travel).

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Wormholes aren't a form of FTL travel. Wormholes are essentially like taking a road map then folding it over. It doesn't increase your speed, it just decreases the distance required for travel. These are ridiculously improbable and would require massive amounts of power to bend space and time. You may as well build a TARDIS and be done with it.

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That's why I didn't say they were FTL travel (I called them FTL technologies), they only give the same effect as being someplace else faster than light would travel through normal means.

I don't question the probability of them ever existing in the future. It's sci-fi after all, though they are usually not present in hard sci-fi :-).

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True enough, although FTL travel seems probable in the future. We've already discovered particles that move faster than the speed of light, so now it's a matter of applying that fact.

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What particles?

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Minovsky particles of course!

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Well, not exactly. There are discussions about those particles, as not everybody is convinced, but there's also a different problem. Particles are generally not separable, but larger matter (theoretically) starts acting strange when traveling at relativistic speeds. It's probable that any larger object traveling that fast could dissolve into separate particles in case of even the smallest disturbance (or even without it, as it would be hard to propel all of the said objects particles to that speed at once).

I'd say we're still a pretty long time before this kind of technology could be of day to day use. It's a pity we probably won't be able to see it ourselves.

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Cookie Monster seeing a cookie.

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A speed that exceeds 1079252762,46 km/h

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I'm faster than light

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Epic.

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Closed 11 years ago by Shannara55.