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Today #FTL is simply used to view streams, a fragment of its complete potential to revolutionize communication. In a progressive society having well-defined concepts of right and wrong, mental evolution is essential for improvement. Being a bottom-feeder by choice is alright as long as it's sustainable.
FTL is no secret, as the concept of "open secret" is a paradox, and an example of generations of primitive belief systems being carried over. Digital technology is recent, and is a lesson for us.

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For primitive humans accessing streams via #FTL they might have assumed other animals also had access to this stream. That may have been the trigger for humans behaving incoherently in terms of #consciousness and the 3D space in the present, where everyone acclimatised instead of questioning, theorizing or proposing a better societal approach.

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Coming to #FTL and #consciousness one aspect is to get information delivered via mental instinct. The other option is reinforcement learning, where existing information is absorbed, utilised and built upon.
Before humans, there were other quadruped life forms. It's strange to see these beings behaving in an orderly fashion in a group(zebras) without explicit guidance.
It is possible that humans observed these animals and their behaviour and decided to implement the best parts in a collective.

#gamedev #scifi #ftl #nerdalert
I've designed my scifi FTL engine and power plant and got my scientific terminology sorted. Here's a summary:

Power & sub-light
* Antimatter Catalytic Fusion Reactor
* Refined Deuterium Fuel
* Ion Propulsion Field Thrusters

Faster-than-light
* Boson Condenser
* Warp Medium (atomic gas)
* Super Fluid Dispersal System
* Distributed Field Generator
* Quantum Vortex Drive

I just released the Saurian Starhost Warfleets 3d models on My Mini Factory. myminifactory.com/object/3d-pr

Since I'm currently out of work, and would not mind a boost in sales, I thought I would also offer a discount on ALL my OPR fleets models. Use code: ONEPAGE25SPACE to get 25% off the price of any of the following sets: Battle Brothers, DAO Union, Human Defense Force, Alien Hives, and Saurian Starhost.

They print well on FDM and Resin.

myminifactory.com/.../collecti

Kind of amazing to me that Subset Games released #FTL 12 years ago and sometimes I feel like I'm still scratching the surface with that game.

But that's its genius IMO. You can be a casual player and very much enjoy a quick "how long can I stay alive?" sortie, or you can min/max it like a tabletop RPG monster and dive HOLY CRAP DEEP into the wiki and strategies etc.

I just wish it played better on #SteamDeck No fault of theirs, its controls just aren't well suited to a portable gaming platform like that.

Someone would need to sink some serious time into a custom control scheme I'd guess.

Small minds these Tech Bros, finding a way around the 0.2 second latency in HEO satellite internet.
They went for mega constellations at LEO, which as it would turn out, might fuck the Ozone layer when they inevitably burn up.

A true galaxy brain would just develop FTL communications like a badass. :catjam:
But no, these men went weak and flaccid.....their hustle has been exposed

So close yet so far. Take me to Proxima Centauri!

Warp drive technology is at the stage of 1882 car technology. In summary - positive energy is the breakthrough.

Scientists Just Made a Breakthrough For Interstellar Travel popularmechanics.com/science/a

Popular Mechanics · A Groundbreaking Scientific Discovery Just Gave Humanity the Keys to Interstellar TravelBy Manasee Wagh

SCIENCE!

"[Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre] discovered that it was possible to build a warp drive through a clever manipulation of spacetime, arranging it so that space in front of a vessel gets scrunched up and the space behind the vessel stretched out. This generates motion without, strictly speaking, movement.

It sounds like a contradiction, but that’s just one of the many wonderful aspects of general relativity. Alcubierre’s warp drive avoids violations of the speed-of-light limit because it never moves through space; instead space itself is manipulated to, in essence, bring the spacecraft’s destination closer to it.

While tantalizing, Alcubierre’s design has a fatal flaw. To provide the necessary distortions of spacetime, the spacecraft must contain some form of exotic matter, typically regarded as matter with negative mass. Negative mass has some conceptual problems that seem to defy our understanding of physics, like the possibility that if you kick a ball that weighs negative 5 kilograms, it will go flying backwards, violating conservation of momentum."

A warp drive breakthrough? Maybe. A breakthrough in our understanding of gravity? Probably!

(Scientists don't understand gravity very well at all.)

#Science #WarpDrive #FTL #StarTrek #science #Physics

wired.com/story/warp-drive-bre

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@trekfan4747
Assuming we have General Relativity completely right and assuming that a meaningful understanding of dark energy and/or a quantum theory of gravity doesn't completely alter our perspective on the fundamental nature of space-time and assuming that humans don't burn, choke, drown and poison themselves back to the Stone Age over the next ten years, then yes; - could happen. :-)
#FTL #StarTrek #StarTrekvsReality #physics #cosmology
arxiv.org/pdf/2405.02709

@steamdeckhq I know the business side of #gamdev makes this highly unlikely but I was thinking the other day - how cool would an update to #subsetgames #FTL be for Steamdeck compatibilty?

The touch controls and form factor feel perfect for the game to me. I suspect it'd just be a matter of a small amount of polish (He says, realizing that any time you touch complex software EVER it's NEVER a small thing :)