Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.

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10. If it was possible someone would already be doing it...

... or some random and observable natural process would be generating such warp speeds.

Which would be very bad for us.

I don't want any Klingons conquering the earth, and I don't want any warp speed ejecta hitting the earth.

If faster-than-light travel is impossible in this universe that's okay by me.

It seems unlikely natural born humans will ever have a significant presence in space beyond low earth orbit. Our bodies are too fragile and our reflexes too slow to thrive in space. If this technological civilization does manage to survive the next century then space will belong to our intellectual children, synthetic beings who can walk around naked on the surfaces of Mars or Titan, for example, just as we might go skinny dipping at the beach. If we are nice to them, if they grow up to respect us, maybe they'll take a few natural born humans along for the ride.

If there is intelligent life in this universe besides humans it probably permeates everything or else it has retreated into universes of its own making.

Or maybe civilizations like ours are common in this universe, blinking in and out of existence, never knowing they are not alone.