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Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home (www.iflscience.com)
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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

It might become like the days of sail. The fastest mode of communication might actually be the speed of ships. In order to get a message between earth and alpha centauri you might have to actually build messenger ships.

You might have to build small automated FTL capable ships with massive data storage capacity and then download all of the data you need to send and then set the ship off on its way.

[โ€“] kattenluik@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago

I was hoping the days of sail would be some kind of cool Sci-Fi movie or series.

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