A Step Closer To The Alcubierre Drive!

[Tharios]

Sorry, but no, you have to have serious FTL capabilities to even consider conquering a whole galaxy

You're making an incredible amount of assumptions, none of which you have offered any proof (and in fact most are impossible to prove in our day and age). You have an opinion. The Phds and great minds behind such concepts as The Fermi Paradox and Generation ships have other opinions. The difference between yours and theirs is that they have an enormous amount of education behind their opinion, hence it is a more informed opinion so it makes sense to me to stand behind the more informed ideas.

An education totally unsuited to the problem, which is a logistics and psychology problem, not a physics problem.

At best, they're on a slightly higher footing than the average person.

[K^2]

An education totally unsuited to the problem, which is a logistics and psychology problem, not a physics problem.

At best, they're on a slightly higher footing than the average person.

I'm sorry, but you are way off base here. These individuals had an intellect on the outside of the bell curve, as well as ability to think through problems both systematically and creatively. They wouldn't have achieved what they did without such abilities. As such, you cannot compare them to an average individual even in a context of a problem where any education or prior experience are useless.

There can be people better qualified to make a judgement on these things, but we are still talking about a very small group of people.