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In reply to the discussion: Do you believe there are species that have mastered FTL travel? [View all]Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)59. The DU hosts appear to believe that FTL travel is more likely than Wellstone being murdered.
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Any truly intelligent interstellar traveling species would avoid us like the plague.
hobbit709
Jun 2013
#2
I think there may be and I think it would behoove us not to attract their attention
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#4
My own speculation would be that there are possible pasts, just as there are possible futures.
hunter
Jun 2013
#51
No, but I believe that there are esseentially immortal species that do interstellar travel.
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#11
I'm sure intelligent life exists elsewhere, but it's a lot less common than we think
Hugabear
Jun 2013
#46
I don't think it's a belief to say there are other intelligent species in the universe
burnodo
Jun 2013
#19
The DU hosts appear to believe that FTL travel is more likely than Wellstone being murdered.
Nye Bevan
Jun 2013
#59
Absolutely. My cat routinely teleports herself out of the kitchen if I happen to drop a dish.
tanyev
Jun 2013
#17
Indefinite human lifespan will probably be achieved long before FTL / generation ships
MillennialDem
Jun 2013
#97
If we don't bomb ourselves back to the stone age. If we don't decide that feudalism.........
wandy
Jun 2013
#31
I have thought this very thing for years. I speculate that beings may have to evolve to a state that
Lint Head
Jun 2013
#33
Going from Point A to Point B faster than light leads to time travel paradoxes, no matter how...
Silent3
Jun 2013
#35
You're missing the big picture, where more than one person has a warp drive at the same time.
Silent3
Jun 2013
#50
Yes. Democrats often hit those speeds when reversing previously held convictions. nt
Demo_Chris
Jun 2013
#37
So you don't think there's even microbial life anywhere else in the entire universe? /nt
Marr
Jun 2013
#64
True. The complete lack of evidence makes even microbial life a wild-assed guess.
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2013
#74
No evidence at all that the have. Or that there are any other living beings. I like evidence. n-t
Logical
Jun 2013
#60
If such a thing is physically possible, I have to think it's been done *somewhere* in the universe.
Marr
Jun 2013
#62
Most people a thousand years ago would have said putting a human on the moon is impossible.
Incitatus
Jun 2013
#83
No evidence that any have mastered it. Why would anyone believe it? Faith? eom
yawnmaster
Jun 2013
#84
I disagree some species in the galaxy has discovered it at this present moment. It's possible yes,
MillennialDem
Jun 2013
#95
Regarding leaving Earth, I was simplifying things for making my point of
MillennialDem
Jun 2013
#110
If FTL is possible, do you think we would be the first in our galaxy to find it?
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2013
#119
I'd say your pizza delivery happened quickly, but not remotely close to FTL...nt
SidDithers
Jun 2013
#96