Horses and Cattle VS Alien Wildlife

[wumpus]

21 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

Warp is fast enough that crews are not multi-generational.

After you develop that warp drive, could you deliver some Covid-19 vaccine to Wuhan around the start of this year?  Because the entire reason that the speed limit = c is that any faster breaks causality.   While there is the minor issue that increasing momentum  only asymptotically increases velocity up to the speed of light, the real issue is that light travels at the speed of causality.  Make warp drive and you made a time machine.

I'm pretty sure that making the Star Trek universe cannonically non-casual was a fluke needed to fit Harlan Ellison's plot, but it does make their warp drives plausible.  They just never bother to point out how bad warp drives (and ansible communication) really wreck chronological order (and how many timelines would get created right and left).

[kerbiloid]

With help of the  FTL drives they can eat the same steak, uneat it back, and reeat again. Why do the herding?

Edited December 16, 2020 by kerbiloid

[YNM]

On 12/16/2020 at 1:54 AM, Spacescifi said:

Warp is fast enough that crews are not multi-generational.

Can't you warp to after they've taken care of the problem ? Surely if you can make time pass slower, you can make them pass faster ?

On 12/17/2020 at 12:09 AM, kerbiloid said:

they can eat the same steak, uneat it back, and reeat again

This is either a holographic steak, or a really gory anorexia...

[kerbiloid]

4 minutes ago, YNM said:

This is either a holographic steak, or a really gory anorexia...

That's an FTL and causality Xmas gift.

Edited December 18, 2020 by kerbiloid

[Spacescifi]

On 12/16/2020 at 8:54 AM, wumpus said:

After you develop that warp drive, could you deliver some Covid-19 vaccine to Wuhan around the start of this year?  Because the entire reason that the speed limit = c is that any faster breaks causality.   While there is the minor issue that increasing momentum  only asymptotically increases velocity up to the speed of light, the real issue is that light travels at the speed of causality.  Make warp drive and you made a time machine.

I'm pretty sure that making the Star Trek universe cannonically non-casual was a fluke needed to fit Harlan Ellison's plot, but it does make their warp drives plausible.  They just never bother to point out how bad warp drives (and ansible communication) really wreck chronological order (and how many timelines would get created right and left).

 

I never was convinced that FTL equals time travel.

Perhaps all it does is stop time for the FTL object? In other words, you age at FTL but the universe does not?

If I fired an FTL bullet in space that hit Jupiter in ten seconds that's FTL.

If I had a time machine I could go before the bullet hit, but the FTL bullet would STILL arrive after it was fired...it's just faster than light.

Legit FTL has a whole host of explosion issues I know, but it is nothing clever hyperspace or jump drive narrative cannot fix.

I know gravity and acceleration can cause time warp issues, but only up to a point as far as I know.

 

Edited December 18, 2020 by Spacescifi

[kerbiloid]

At v>c you get a square root from a negative value, so get ready to face imaginary values of time and space.

Actually, you would probably degrade at particle level faster than understand what happens.

And the conservation laws arre murmuring that FTL bullet should cause imaginary numbers in recoil.