/sci/ - Science & Math

Space travel is a bunk of horse shit for the most part.

I believe strongly that we will in our lifetimes, see a transition into type one civilization,and we will become very argumentative over heavy metals and other resources much like Arthur C. Clarke's book Earthlight.

But traveling from point A to point B, either for us to meet aliens, or for aliens to meet us. Is ridiculous. It always relies on soft science principles.

1: Dark matter. With almost infinite energy, it might be able to work. But how would we come across dark matter and then harvest it?

2: Anti-matter. The physics is different as to why we're moving rather then if we used dark matter. But even more mind fuck of how we even encounter it without causing some paradox regression. Let alone use it!

3: Wormholes. The most likely, but also most counter-productive. Because I don't believe we could predetermine a worm hole's destination. The universe is not one flat mall map. I believe if you were to open a wormhole from the same exact destination, you'd reach another place "on the other side" every time. Because of the way our three dimensional space works. Might be good for nomads... for a while... but when full blown entropy takes effect, this type two civilization crap will not fly.

TL;DR: That feel when given what you know about modern physics, type three civilizations are impossible, and most aliens would not waste time or effort communicating or even trying too. If they needed something of out's, they'd just take it, and we're far too underdeveloped intellectually to be of any use to them in some kind of intergalactic power grab.

Science is grim dark.