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Faster-than-light travel is impossible. Photons are the fastest thing in the universe because they have no mass. To move faster than photons, you would need to have negative mass, which is impossible. And even if you had an infinite amount of energy, you cannot accelerate faster than photons, as that would merely bring you to the speed of photons. Think about it: photons essentially move at infinity, and there is no number larger than infinity.
I think a lot of people underestimate how freaking large the universe is. Like, lets say theoretically there was a road from the Earth to the Sun, and you start walking on it. Once you’ve reached the end of your lifespan, you will not be even a 1/3rd of the way there. Heck, you would not even be a 1/10th of the way there. Or even a 1/25th. You will only be a measly 1/50th of the way there, after 85 years of walking.
The Sun is ‘only’ 8 light-minutes away from the Earth. The other nearest star, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years away. That is an astronomical 2,298,000 light-minutes away. Now think about how far away most stars are. That’s hundreds, thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of light years away; impossible distances to cover.
What I’m trying to say here is that even if one day we figure out interstellar travel and have found aliens, we will have a really hard time visiting them. It will be really expensive, and it will not be worth the cost. So why would aliens expend such an amount of resources to make contact with us, whom they presumably (from massive technological difference) regard us as ants?
If you wouldn’t even stop to talk to an ant on your daily commute, what makes you think aliens would spend massive amounts of resources and time to talk to an ant entire solar systems, maybe even galaxies away?
Why should we care? Hitler was a vegetarian. Does that make vegetarianism bad? Should we enforce eating meat out of spite for Hitler?
Hitler loved animals also. Does that make loving animals bad? Should we enforce a regime of animal cruelty just to spite Hitler?
Hitler called himself a socialist. Should we no longer call ourselves socialists because of that?
The Nazis essentially invented modern warfare. Should we ban all usage of tanks, spearhead formations, and close air-support just because the Nazis invented them?
What I am saying is not a defense of Nazis, but rather a rhetorical device to show how patently absurd your position is.
Edit: Oh yeah, the Americans invented carrier strike groups. Should we pressure China to completely abandon that entire class of naval warfare just because the Americans invented it?
Edit 2: The Americans invented atomic bombs. Should we pressure Russia and China to abandon their nuclear weapons (and then get Libya’d) just because the Americans invented it?
Edit 3: The Japanese built factories (and committed war crimes) in North-East China. Should the Chinese Communists have dismantled the Japanese factories just because they were built by the Japanese instead of utilizing them in the civil war against the Nationalists?
What I am saying is that if Wojak will enable us to win the culture war against the rightists, then we should be all for it. Not just abandon an entire class of memes just because the rightists invented it.
Edit: Also who the fuck is the debate-bro here? You’re the one who made the post! Don’t ask questions if you don’t want answers.
I’m pretty sure there is a not-insubstantial population of Jews who hate Israel because of this shit.
They exist. They’re called Anti-Zionist Jews.
(warning: general mainstream media zionist cringe, the reporter tries to paint the anti-zionist jews in the worst light possible, which is pretty ironic ngl)
yeah but anyone (even trolls who have nothing to do with carl) can have ‘carl’ in their name though, i think it’s best to take caution before throwing out accusations
also i think it’s best to just not make a massive fuss about it because trolls seek out reactions (regardless of their content), and if you don’t give them a reaction, they’ll find it boring and leave.
and right now, we seem to be giving them a hell-la-lot of reactions!