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<blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 3134511" data-attributes="member: 8396">&quot;FTL Travel will never be a reality!&quot;&nbsp; Maybe... However, I'm willing to bet that some scientist or engineer a couple hundred years ago once authoratively stated that the currently known scientific principles of their day PROVED that man would never travel to the moon.&nbsp; In the pre-Model-T era it was a &quot;known fact&quot; that any speeds beyond 40 or 50 miles per hour would kill the occupant of the vehicle.History is filled with instances where by the standards of the day, &quot;x&quot; was impossible.&nbsp; Those who stated that it was impossible were right... so long as you only looked at the existing technologies.&nbsp; Then along would come new technology that rewrote the rules and pushed the horizon of &quot;what can't be done&quot;(TM) off into the distance again for another little while.Will this happen with FTL travel?&nbsp; I don't know, my crystal ball is as dim as anyone else's.&nbsp; All I know is that it's never been safe in the past to categorically state that &quot;x&quot; is impossible.&nbsp; All you do is piss off some inventors who then go and create the &quot;impossible&quot; thing just to spite you! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiralBound, post: 3134511, member: 8396"] "FTL Travel will [u]never[/u] be a reality!" Maybe... However, I'm willing to bet that some scientist or engineer a couple hundred years ago once authoratively stated that the currently known scientific principles of their day [u]PROVED[/u] that man would never travel to the moon. In the pre-Model-T era it was a "known fact" that any speeds beyond 40 or 50 miles per hour would kill the occupant of the vehicle. History is filled with instances where by the standards of the day, "x" was impossible. Those who stated that it was impossible were right... so long as you only looked at the existing technologies. Then along would come new technology that rewrote the rules and pushed the horizon of "what can't be done"(TM) off into the distance again for another little while. Will this happen with FTL travel? I don't know, my crystal ball is as dim as anyone else's. All I know is that it's never been safe in the past to categorically state that "x" is impossible. All you do is piss off some inventors who then go and create the "impossible" thing just to spite you! :) [/QUOTE]

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