Plenty of people have extrapolated the feasibility of FTL, arriving at a wide assortment of methods by diverse routes. I observed that the universe is full of possibilities, many of them stranger than most people can imagine; and that the history of human technology is full of doing things once thought impossible.
An interesting outgrowth of this is that, in galaxies where multiple types of FTL develop, the cultures are even less likely to encounter each other unless they all seek very similar planets. Those using subspace, hyperspace, wormholes, etc. will not travel in the same way and thus may prefer different routes favoring their particular mode of transit.
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Date: 2021-05-11 07:52 pm (UTC)An interesting outgrowth of this is that, in galaxies where multiple types of FTL develop, the cultures are even less likely to encounter each other unless they all seek very similar planets. Those using subspace, hyperspace, wormholes, etc. will not travel in the same way and thus may prefer different routes favoring their particular mode of transit.