Re: AFAL travel is only 300 years away
- From: Mike Ash <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:33:11 -0500
In article <hk4rsl$ioa$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jack Tingle <wjtingle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1/31/2010 12:51 PM, Mike Ash wrote:
No more or less plausible than any other
unscientific space drive. Just as FTL doesn't fit with currently known
physics, nor does an AFAL drive.
Not true. An AFAL drive using a transmitter and receiver is certainly
possible, as another poster noted. It doesn't violate any known laws of
physics. It's certainly nothing we could tackle with today's technology,
but it doesn't obviously cause gibbering fits among the technoscenti.
The problem is the lack of technology to do such a thing, and whether it
would seem plausible to the bulk of readers. You vote no.
I don't vote "no", I vote "not a drive". That's just a data transfer
system which happens to be hooked up to interesting devices. IMO, a
"drive" ought to be able to get you places without needing a specialized
receiver, and without needing local materials to reconstitute you.
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Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
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