/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1513443]

A relatively cheap mean of FTL is discovered tomorrow.
How does the world react.

Elaborate

[Anonymous No.1513447]

"Did you see American Idol last night?"

[Anonymous No.1513450]

>relatively cheap
>faster than light
ba dum tiss

[Anonymous No.1513451]

>>1513447
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[Anonymous No.1513459]

/sci/ calls you a troll and tells you to go back to school

[Anonymous No.1513462]

World doesn't know - scientists who discovered it test it, send shit at FTL speed and thus back in time, fuck shit up and it is no longer discovered.

[Anonymous No.1513468]

>>1513462

>World doesn't know - scientists who discovered it test it, send shit at FTL speed and thus back in time, fuck shit up and it is no longer discovered.

>send shit at FTL speed and thus back in time

>back in time

[Anonymous No.1513473]

I don't know, but I'd volunteer for the first trip to another galaxy.

[Anonymous No.1513491]

We declare war on everyone we find who doesn't have it.

[Anonymous No.1513528]

>>1513491
oh how insensitive and stupid all we human are. it makes me proud to hate you sometimes.

[Anonymous No.1513543]

>>1513468
Yes, FTL is equivalent to "back in time" in quantum mechanics.

[Anonymous No.1513548]

>>1513543
what

[Anonymous No.1513559]

>>1513443
personal: SWEAT HOLY SHIT FUCK
professional: prove it

[Anonymous No.1513560]

>>1513462

>someone's been watching too much super man
>universe doesn't work that way.

[Anonymous No.1513570]

>>1513560

[pascal !n5Z3VuZapw No.1513578]

>>1513548
If light speed = instantaneous travel

faster than light must mean faster than instantaneous. Only possible conclusion is backwards in time.

captcha sillier Kennedy's

[Anonymous No.1513583]

>>1513570

well done. post it again with i higher resolution next time so we can actually read it ye. better yet don't post it again at all coz it's probs a load of bollox!

[Anonymous No.1513589]

>>1513578
hurr durr

>>1513583
Wormholes are valid, but disregard that retard anyway because FTL has nothing to do with wormholes.

>balancing meaning

[Anonymous No.1513598]

>>1513578
bullshit. FTL physically cannot exist, time trave is impossible. plus no ones ever gone into FTL, thus we can only fantasize. in my opinion (if it were possible) it would either kill you, or split the dimensional boundaries. to quote Rodger Zelazny, you travel to a different shadow, giving a possible illusion of time travel.

[Anonymous No.1513620]

>>1513560
You're using greentext wrong.
No need to be sorry - everyone has to start somewhere. Well, maybe a bit sorry - you were pretending to be more intelligent than someone...

Yes, time travel and FTL are equivalent. Equations work that way.

[Anonymous No.1513636]

this ones for you OP and gang ;-)

[Anonymous No.1513645]

>>1513620
No. They really don't

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1513657]

Within 50 years everyone rules their own habitable planet.

[Anonymous No.1513679]

corporations jump on it and farm up any valuable resources they can get their hands on

everyone else follows and/or is killed

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1513688]

>>1513679
Do you have any idea how much 'resources' there are just in our local neighbourhood?

[Anonymous No.1513703]

How about an As Fast As Light system? AFAL. then there's less dander.

[Anonymous No.1513721]

>>1513598

>>split the dimensional boundaries

[Anonymous No.1513734]

>>1513620

>>Yes, time travel and FTL are equivalent. Equations work that way.

Not all the time. If you had any idea about the "equations" you are talking about, you would realise there are multiple solutions that don't involve time travel.

Also you COULD use wormholes for effective FTL travel, although technically it wouldn't be.

Also warp spacetime using the Alcubierre drive. That gets around the time travel issue.

[Anonymous No.1513738]

>>1513598
me again
>>1513721
in reply to your question... i have no idea. i've been readin to much Rodger Zelazny lately and i decided that FTL would be the mortal equivalent of Shadow waking.

[Anonymous No.1513779]

>>1513703

light speed is too slow and the universe is too big

we need something "faster" to make deep space travel viable and able to circumvent general relativity

so far the best theories available are Alcubierre's warp drive and "wormwholes" but currently neither can be supported with current physics, maybe in the future but I don't think it will be soon, I'd like to be wrong about this but still...

[Anonymous No.1513833]

we become tachyons,

[Anonymous No.1513850]

>>1513833

I swear I read that as:

"TAKE ON"
"vagina"

[Anonymous No.1513858]

>>1513850

same. lol

[Anonymous No.1513920]

Church raises Hell with "FTL travel is against God!!"
Extremists in mainstream political parties try to blow up companies offering FTL travel, as well as the equipment responsible directly.
Politicians race each other to see who can appear on global television and baselessly claim that "[they] *invented* FTL travel!"
Students continue to choose not to major in high sciences because "it's, like, too hard, dude..."
Scientists apply for funding to leave the solar system, so that they might finally be able to escape people they can't relate to (ie: mostly everyone), but are denied.
Species as a whole doesn't care, continues to ruin the planet while debating whether or not they're ruining the planet.

[Anonymous No.1513931]

>>1513920
>Students continue to choose not to major in high sciences because "NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD"

FTFY

[Anonymous No.1513946]

>>1513931

Yes, sorry about that. I forgot to include the high school children. Can't call them students in good conscience, I'm afraid- there are some that do study and try to learn, but at those levels it's not something they choose to do (unless they live in a country where it's not required to be in school to a certain level).